Here how to make these wonderful clear plastic ornaments in to a handmade work of art for you tree.
The
first thing you need is a clear glass or plastic ornament, then you let
your imagination soar about what you create, fill, wrap, or decorate it
with.
Bottle Brush Tree Ornament
In this tree I used the super cute bottle brush trees from Fancy Pants and some wonderful flowers from Prima.
First
you add a tiny blob (yes that is an official term, hehe) of fast drying
clear glue (like ZipDry) to the bottom of each tree and place them into
the ball. I used tweezers to help place the tree. The trick is to let
one tree dry and hold fast before adding in the second tree or anything
else in the ball or they just fall over. patience is key here.
Now
that your trees are dry I added in a bit of angel dust with make it
look like the were nesteld in snow (it is like thick glitter or even
glitter would work).
The I created a cluster of flowers from Prima from the wonderful Warehouse Boxes that Flamingo Scraps
is offering (on sale too) and wrapped it around the top of the ball. I
then added the top hook of the ball back on (I glued it so it would not
pop off and glitter would get everywhere), added a bow to cover up the
topper, and strung up the top with a silver ribbon to hang on my tree.
Embellishment Ornament
Here
I stayed with a single color of blue (in various hues) and created a
ball of wonder, a fun little search and find ball for my kids full of
odd bits and pieces from my scrapbook stash (left over from the Flamingo Scraps warehouse boxes).
Here is the stash of items I used to fill the ball. I used buttons, flowers, charms, sequins, plastic bits and bobs, petals, and other fun items that would fit into the ball from left over projects and from Warehouse box items.
Here
you an see the flower cluster I made prior to attaching it to the
ball. I took little flower buds on wire and threaded larger flowers
under it. I then took the wire stem and wrapped it around the top of
the ball to secure it.
I
then took ribbon and wrapped the top to cover the wire stems from the
flower. Then attached the ornament topper, added ribbon to string it
up, and poof you have a wonderful search and find ornament ball.
Here you can see even more goodies, and as you shake it more items appear!
Supplies used can be found at Flamingo Scraps
Ornament ball
Flowers - Prima and other
Ribbon -Websters
Bottle Brush Trees - Fancy Pants
Embellishments -Flamingo Scraps
Enjoy!
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