Hi everyone! Thank you for joining us today for the Deck the Halls Blog Hop from Hero Arts!
We hope to inspire you to create handmade holiday ornaments for your Holiday Tree or other holiday home decor.
Every year whenever I start decorating our Christmas tree I like to give my holiday ornaments a little makeover. Last year I dressed my ornaments up with black chalkboard tags and a fun red bow:
(you can see that post here, but its only in Ukrainian)
A year before that I wrapped a few ornaments in felt and dressed them up with few tags and flowers:
(you can see that post here, it is available in English)
And this year I decided to give my ornaments a new look by doing a bit of die cutting and stamping.
I die cut a Happy Holidays sentiment out of red layering papers from Hero Arts and heat embossed it with clear embossing powder for a nice glossy finish. I also stamped, heat embossed and die cut two medium and small size stars and added a bit of festive ribbon to my styrofoam ornament.
I used a hole punch and simply punched a hole in my starts and added them to my ornament string. This way I didn’t have to glue anything down. I also added a bit of festive ribbon from May Arts and secured it in place with a metal pin.
I did have a little trouble when attaching the sentiment. Finally I was able to glue it down to my ornament using the 3 in 1 Advanced Craft Glue from Beacon Adhesives.
If you’d like to see how I decorated this ornament in detail you can watch my video below or on Youtube:
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Here’s another ornament I created:
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Hero Arts is having a sale this weekend (5-7th December) – be sure to stop by and stock up on your favorite stamps and inks!
Challenge and prize!
Hero Arts is also hosting a challenge inviting YOU to deck your halls. You will have until Friday Dec 12 at 6pm EST, and Hero Arts will announce the random winner on Saturday Dec 13. Winner will receive a “DIY prize pack” that includes two packages of message blocks, two ink daubers, a stencil, and alphabet stamp set!
Absolutely FABULOUS, Yana!! I love both of your ornaments, and you video is wonderful, as always. 🙂
thank you so very much, Libby! So glad you like them! I had a blast making these!
Such pretty ornaments! Love them!
So pretty!! Love all your ornaments! What a wonderful video, too! Thanks for the inspiration!
Gorgeous ornaments, Yana! Thanks for the great video too!
Thanks for sharing these fun and clever ornament creations!!
Love your ornaments! I love love love that star stamp:) Thanks for the inspiration and I love your videos!!!!
Love the use of star shape!! BEAUTIFUL job, Yana!
Gorgeous ornaments.
isoscia at aol dot com
Every year my family and I buy a new ornament the day we get our Christmas tree. This year I wanted the family to make our own ornament, seeing your creations I know it is possable to achive. Thank you for such beautiful ideas!
Beautiful! You could have a whole series on ornaments! !
Lovely ornaments! Thanks for the video, it’s so helpful.
very nice ornaments the stars are my favorite
I love the ornaments! The video was excellent!
Love these ornaments!!!
wonderful but simply ornament thanks
Fabulous ornaments!!
Beautiful and so simply! thansk for the ideas!
Very festive and very creative. Love your project.
Fun ornaments you created! Love the music star stamp, is on my wish list!!!
Darling ornaments, Yana, and I loved your video! Thanks for the inspiration!!
All so fun!!
What fun ornaments! I haven’t played with styrofoam balls in ages. What fun!
Like the ornaments. Like the sparkle. Like the dimension of the 3D star.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
great idea – I love to make ornaments thanks for sharing
These ornaments are beautiful, Yana! Very creative using stamps and dies! Thanks for the inspirations
Ohh these are gorgeous! Love the star ornament!
So pretty – love what you’ve done this year … the star, sentiment and ribbon!
They look great.