Ornament Envelopes

Hi everyone!

I know it's way after Christmas and these are Christmas

envelopes, but they can be used at any time of the year,

just use different papers.
I wanted something to put these ornaments

in to give them to my family and friends.

I saw a video, by Nina Ribina

showing how to make little gift bags.

That video gave me the inspiration for these little

envelopes.
I made them from Christmas papers from my stash.

Some were made with plain card stock and

pieces of handmade background papers.

Some I used strips of Christmas paper to decorate

them.

They were simple to make,

I measured them to fit the ornaments 

and followed the example in the video that

I linked above.

Thanks for spending some time with me today,

come again soon.

Until then

watch some videos and try something new.

Christmas Day Ornaments

Hello!  Welcome to Kristie Kreates!

The last few years I've hosted Christmas dinner

for my immediate family and have a tradition

that I make an ornament for each person that

comes to dinner.

This year we changed to brunch at
Jaryd and Sara's, but I continued my tradition 

of ornaments.

I picked up a puzzle at the Dollar Tree that

had larger pieces.

I peeled the picture off the pieces of the puzzle.

I put the puzzle back together and used

Gel Medium to "glue" a napkin to one side

of the puzzle.

To do this, I took the napkin apart, it was a 3 ply

napkin, I simply peeled off the top layer with the

picture on it.

I made sure it was flat on the puzzle and 

added another layer of the Gel Medium to seal it.

Using a sharp blade, I carefully cut the pieces apart.

On the back of the pieces I used

Firebird Art Alchemy Metallique Wax

and wrote each persons name on the back

along with the year, using a Sharpie.

I punched a hole in each piece and added a

ribbon for hanging.

When I gave these out, I explained that the group of us

are just like this puzzle and we fit together to make

a whole as a family.
Every person is an important part of that puzzle.

I was  very happy with the way these turned out

and hopefully everyone will hang them on their trees for

years to come.

Thanks for stopping by today,

I hope you have been inspired in some way

and will come again soon.

Until next time,

enjoy all the pieces of your puzzle!

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I am in no way promoting any particular site.

Pikachu and Unicorn

Hi All!
Did you make any Christmas ornaments for
2018?
I did and here are couple of them.

Here's the Pikachu I made for my great nephew
Anthony. I found a picture of Pikachu and went from
there, creating it in my
 Silhouette Studio Designer Edition
and cut the face pieces from vinyl.
The ears were done freehand with glitter craft foam.
For the ornament itself, I used a clear plastic ornament.
First I poured liquid hair spray into the ornament,
then drained it out.  I used gold glitter and poured it into
the ornament, then poured the excess out.
This process works great for me.

I made this unicorn for my great niece and Godchild,
Andrea.  I followed the same process for glittering the
ornament, found some eyelashes on the internet and
traced them in my Silhouette program and cut them from vinyl.
The horn and ears were drawn freehand and cut from glitter craft
foam.  I found the little flowers in my stash and put them on
with super glue, then added gold gems to the centers.
I also added the year to the back with vinyl.
The kids both loved their ornaments.

I started a tradition of making ornaments for those
we have Christmas dinner with.
Unfortunately, I didn't remember to take pictures
of them. Each ornament had the date on one side and
the other was something that was important to that person
in 2018.  I also use a color that corresponded in some way
to that person or their "theme"
Sure wish I would have remembered to take pictures.

Thanks for popping in today.
If you made ornaments for Christmas
that everyone loved them as much as these were loved.