Quick & Easy DIY Christmas Ornament with Magical Shakers

I’m excited to share another quick and easy Christmas ornament

project you can create. For this ornament, I’m using StyleTechCraft

vinyl and Eileen Hull’s brand-new Whimsical Garden Magical Shakers

from Lindy’s Gang®.

I started with an inexpensive wood ornament that I picked up at Hobby Lobby. You can also find similar wood ornaments on Amazon*.
I painted the ornament with white acrylic paint and used a Gold Paint Marker* to color the top of the ornament gold.

I used the Merry Mistletoe Ornament Design SVG file from the Silhouette Store and cut it out using Black Matte Craft Vinyl with my Silhouette Electronic Die-Cutting Machine*.

I applied the vinyl onto the ornament using Clear Transfer Tape*.

I shook a little amount of the Magical Shakers onto a non-porous surface. I activated the pigments using water.
I colored inside the image using a water brush pen* dipped in the powdered pigments. To get my desired color, I used two or three coats of the wet pigments.
The nice thing about using a vinyl design as your base is that it’s so easy to stay in the lines. Especially since the lines are raised.

So many fun ways to use these powders.

Make sure to read below and join the rest of Eileen’s team and their fun Whimsical Garden Magical Shakers projects.

SOMETHING MAGICAL IS HAPPENING!

Get ready for a burst of color, creativity, and crafty inspiration! Eileen Hull has teamed up with Lindy’s Gang for something EXTRA special — NEW Magicals!

And we’re celebrating in a BIG way! Eileen and her amazing team of creative makers from around the WORLD will be GOING LIVE to share ideas, inspiration, creative techniques, and exciting ways to use these fabulous new colors!

Get ready to see what happens when creativity meets a little MAGIC!

You’ll get a peek at the wonderful projects and ideas this talented team has been dreaming up!

Tuesday, November 10

12:00 Noon Eastern Time

WATCH US LIVE ON:
Facebook • YouTube • Instagram

Join Eileen and the team from around the globe for a celebration filled with color, creativity, and inspiration!

Bring your imagination, your love of color, and get ready for some MAGICAL fun!

You won’t want to miss it — SOMETHING MAGICAL IS HAPPENING!

DIY Christmas Gift Topper Ornament: Easy Wood and Vinyl Craft

As the holidays approach, I love making ornaments—

especially ones that are both pretty and practical.

This easy project uses a simple wood shape, some paint,

and StyleTechCraft Ulta Metallic vinyl.

Materials include: (*affiliate links)

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Directions:

Paint the base of the wood ornament* with barn red acrylic paint*.
Use a gold paint marker* to color the top of the ornament gold.
Lightly sand the ornament with an extra fine sanding block* to smooth the surface.
Wipe the ornament with a clean, smooth rag.
For a shiny finish, paint the ornament with Mod Podge Satin* finish.
Allow the ornament to dry.

I cut the words and green swag out of Ultra Metallic Glitter Vinyl using an SVG file from the Silhouette Store and a Silhouette Electronic Die-Cutting Machine*.
Weed out the excess vinyl from around the design using a vinyl weeding tool.
Place the transfer tape over the design and gently rub with a vinyl scraper tool to transfer the image onto the transfer tape*.
Place the transfer tape* on the wood ornament and rub gently to transfer the design onto the ornament.
Add a gold edge to the side of the ornament using a gold calligraphy pen or gold paint marker*.

Whether you use these as ornaments or gift toppers, they will add a handmade touch to your holiday celebrations.

Happy crafting, and may your holidays be filled with creativity and joy!

“This is a sponsored post. As a member of the StyleTechCraft Design Team I have been provided product and compensation in exchange for my creative ideas. The views and opinions are my own.

Simple Fall Clay Craft: Make Your Own Leaf Dish

Fall always gets me in the mood to try something creative.

With the leaves changing, I wanted to make a fun little fall project.

It all started when I researched the best clay to use for stamped ornaments.

Once I started researching, Facebook showed me hundreds of clay videos.

In one of the videos, I watched them press a Fall leaf into the clay.

Since I had just bought the clay, I had to give it a try.

As I was looking into different clays, I kept seeing people recommend DAS air-dry clay*, so I decided to give it a try.

To make a Fall Clay Leaf:

I pressed the leaf onto my rolled clay and gently rolled over it again with a rolling pin.
I cut around the edges with a knife.
Once I removed the leaf from the clay, I smoothed out the edges with my finger, which was dipped in water. I molded the clay leaf slightly using the inside of a rounded bowl.
Then came the hardest part: waiting for the clay to dry. It is recommended to allow at least 24 hours for the clay to dry and possible a little longer depending on the thickness of the clay.
You will need to turn the clay over at some point during the drying process to make sure that it dries on both sides.

Once it was dry, I painted both sides of the leaves with a variety of fall acrylic paint colors.

To finish off the clay, I used Mod Podge* to coat and seal the leaf.

If you’re looking for simple and fun fall craft, I definitely recommend

giving this a try—you might be surprised by what you can create!

Christmas with Heart: Holiday Cardmaking Workshop

I’m happy to let you know I’ll be teaching my Holiday Cardmaking class again this year at Tremont Gallery/Pearl Street Stamping in Tremont, Illinois.

November 13^th and 14^th

10:00-12:00 and 1:30-3:30

Cost: $25.00

Kick off the holiday season by creating cheerful cards with Penny Black’s Bundled Snowman stamp and die sets. Learn easy watercolor techniques using ink pads and markers to bring your designs to life. We’ll also craft a pair of festive holiday tags and a charming, stamped heart ornament.

If water coloring is not your thing, feel free to bring colored pencils or your favorite markers.

Students Bring:

Water brush or Small Paintbrush
Tape Runner
Foam Mounting Squares
Scissors
White and Gold Gel Pens (if you have them)

Call Tremont Gallery to Sign Up: 309-925-4438 (Store Open Wednesday-Friday)

Tremont Gallery Pearl Street Stamping-109 West Pearl Street-Tremont, IL 61568

DIY Flower Pounding on Fabric

How to Make a Flower Heart Bag using Flower Blooms.

This year at my local greenhouse, I found some unusually colored

petunias for my pots. They’ve been stunning all summer.

But as my Summer flowers started to fade, and I wanted to replace

them with mums; I decided to do something with the blooms.

First, I preserved the seeds and created seed packets for next year.

Then, I picked several blooms for a Japanese flower-pounding technique

I wanted to try called Tataki-zomë.

Tataki-zomë is where you place fresh flowers and leaves on fabric

and gently hammer them to release their pigments, leaving a natural print.

You’ll need for the Flower pounding on fabric: (*affiliate links)

Natural Fiber Fabric like cotton, linen, or bamboo (prewash fabric to remove finishes)
Flowers and Leaves: I used Petunias, Begonias, Marigolds, Zinnias, and Geraniums
Mallet or Hammer*
Parchment Paper or a Protective Covering*
Hard Surface
Cardboard to stick inside the bag.

How to create the Flower Heart Bag.

Pick several fresh blooms from your garden and flower pots.
Stick a piece of cardboard into the fabric bag to protect the bag from the flowers bleeding through to the other side.
Place the bag onto a hard surface. (I took mine outside and used a couple of wide boards.)

Arrange the flowers face down onto the fabric. I decided to make a heart design with the flowers.
Cover the design with parchment paper.
Gently tap with a mallet or hammer. Start on the edges and work your way in. Be careful when hammering, as the flowers shift while you pound.

Remove the parchment paper and flowers to reveal your design. If you’re not completely satisfied with the fullness of your design, add additional flowers and pound again.

I took my design a step further and created a saying for the heart using StyleTechCraft Heat Transfer vinyl.
I created my saying using an SVG file from the Silhouette Store and my Silhouette Electronic Die Cutting Machine*. When using HTV with words, you will need to mirror the words before cutting.

Place words on top of the heart with the shiny protective coating facing up.
I transferred my vinyl onto the fabric using my Cricut Easy Press*. (You could also use an iron.)

I love how easy and fun this project turned out. Flower pounding is such a simple way to save a bit of summer, and every bag comes out a little different. Hope you give it a try!

“This is a sponsored post. As a member of the StyleTechCraft Design Team I have been provided product and compensation in exchange for my creative ideas. The views and opinions are my own.

Like the idea of preserving your own flowers?

Check out my post called Preserving Flower Seeds in Fall.