DIY Vintage Christmas Ornaments

I made these ornaments to give to a few people on my Christmas list. I had seen some on a retail website and thought I can make those myself!

I found some cute vintage images on the internet and printed them on cardstock and then cut them out.

Below are the tools needed for this project: a glue gun with extra glue sticks, wire snippers, some pipe cleaners and a mat to work on.

Heat up your glue gun and decide what color of pipe cleaner you want to put around the edges of your images and start to bend it around one long edge and half of the top. Then glue that down. Next bend the pipe cleaner around to make a loop for your ornament to hang from and finish gluing the rest of that pipe cleaner around the edge of the image. Then take another pipe cleaner and cut a piece off that will fit the rest of the ornament and attach it with the hot glue. Repeat those steps for each one.

Here are some more pictures of my finished ornaments:

Happy Holidays!

Fall felt banner

I thought the wreath on my front door could use a little finishing touch and I thought a felt banner could withstand some weather elements unlike the paper banners I featured earlier.

So I went to work.

I bought a pack of chipboard with two sizes of banner shapes in it - I just use them for patterns when I make my holiday banners. I chose four colors since I was making one for the word "fall" and cut out my shapes.

I also had some lengths of twine I tied together to fit the length of the banner - I'm all about using up my scraps for these last two projects. Then I decided I liked the look of the knot in the middle so I cut two more small pieces to tie between the other banner pieces.

Then I took one of the other colors of felt that I had bought and traced four circles out of it to go under my letters - I used a chipboard circle to trace around.

I actually had my banner all ready to go a few days ago but I didn't have the right glue for it. When you glue felt to felt you really need to use either a felt glue or at least a good fabric glue. I actually ended up using Aleene's Fabric Fusion glue for this and it seems to be holding together well. You do need to let it dry the recommended 2-4 hours though. I tested it after 30 minutes and it was not holding together.

Here's my finished banner on my wreath.

Got it done in the nick of time. Now it's time to put out Christmas decor.

Fall paper banners

I put this memo board up with my fall decor in my entryway and thought that it looked a little bare so I made these banners for it.

Here are the supplies I used and how I made them:

 I started out with the tags. I had these tags already which will be great for a Christmas project but they weren't the right colors for fall so I used some scrap paper and traced some tags in the colors I wanted. You could also use a craft punch which I pulled out after I had cut out my tags thinking that would have been much quicker but oh well - I like the shape of these too.

You will also need some scissors, glue, pencil for tracing tags on scrapbook paper, stickers to spell out whatever words or sayings you want and embellishments. You will also need some ribbon or twine to link all the tags together.

This is how my tags looked before I put my letters and embellishments on.

And below are pictures of my finished banners.

Valentine Decorations

I usually decorate my kitchen table for each holiday. My husband and I always eat our meals at the bar so that leaves the kitchen table for decorating - I don't have a mantle to decorate and my entryway table usually has everyday decor on it (of course at Halloween and Christmas time, the whole main living area gets decorated, but we won't get into that - I'm still recovering).

I didn't have a Valentine garland so I threw this together using some heart doilies I bought in a package of 12 from Wal-Mart. I tied them together with some twine and it was the perfect length for my window.

I painted this Valentine tree last year and made the paper heart ornaments from scrapbook paper and ribbon. I pulled out some glass heart ornaments from my Christmas decorations so I could add them to this tree. I love the mix of ornaments.

I made these LOVE blocks a few years ago with some co-workers. We cut down a 2x4 and stained the blocks. Then we chose some cute scrapbook paper and crinkled it up and then mod podged it onto the blocks. We stained the wood letters that we picked up in the craft store and glued those onto the blocks. It was a fairly simple craft, but so much fun with friends.

That's my Valentine decor for this year.

Unless I decide to get crafty and then I will share it with you.

I just bought these at Krumpet's to add to my decor so I had to add them to this post. They were half off and I had a gift card from Christmas so I couldn't pass them up.
I might be making a Valentine wreath so we'll see if I get it done.