Home Made Ornaments the Martha Stewart Way!

Hello sweet Christmas friends! Have a look at these lovely ornaments made out of inexpensive aluminum cutters!

Thank you to Martha Stewart for having the most fabulous ideas for beautiful and unique home made ornaments this Christmas!

She suggests using patterned papers, scrap booking paper or color-photocopy pictures and gluing them onto card stock.

Just trace cutter on top and then cut out. Dab white craft glue along cutter's edge, press the paper in place and then let dry. Then all you need to do is thread narrow ribbon through needle, poke it between the paper and the cutter and then wrap the ribbon around top of the cutter. 

As a finishing touch, slip a bead over ribbon's ends and secure with a knot.

How gorgeous are these? 

I also love her idea of transforming last year's Christmas cards into this year's ornaments!

To make a glittery card ornament, cut out a circle from a card and punch a hole for string; add glue around the edge and sprinkle with glitter.

How easy is that! 

You can hang your new ornaments with card garlands or you can make use them as environmentally friendly gift tags, just like these ones from Christmas Projects.com.

My favourite Martha Stewart decoration is this gorgeous Jingle bell wreath.

Shape some wire into a circle (Martha suggests that you use 16-gauge wire but you could also recycle wire coat hangers!) and then make a closed loop at one end with some needle-nose pliers. Then thread some bells onto the open end and when the wire is full of jingly bells twist the unlooped end into a hook and fasten it onto the closed loop.

To finish, tie a piece of ribbon into a bow and then secure it to the bottom of the wreath with 24-gauge wire.


Here are a few different versions

From Country Living

From here

and here.

Make sure you save some bells so the kids can make their very own doorbells out of egg cartons, bells, glue and yarn.

Just cut the cone-shape pieces that separate the eggs out of a cardboard carton and then paint each divider. Let them dry and then apply glue along the edge of the divider, all over the outside, or wherever you like, and sprinkle with glitter!

Then just thread an embroidery needle with yarn through a bell's crown, and pull yarn through partway, slip a jingle bell onto the end of the yarn and then tie a knot above the jingle bell. You can tie several bells around a doorknob, staggering the lengths of the yarn.

Now, don't worry if you buy too many jingle bells; you can make some gorgeous Christmas vignettes with the left over bells. Just look at these festive Pottery Barn ideas!

One last Martha moment before I go!

Have you seen Martha in the Macy's ad?

Thank you to Martha for these great ideas!



Happy hand-made 
Christmas decorating!

Best Christmas wishes,

Natasha

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