DIY Holiday Sled Ornaments

I love a good dollar store DIY. (especially Holiday DIYs)

I thought to myself just the other day. It’s no wonder crafter’s go a little crazy this time of year.

There are so many projects to try and so little time to make them all.

I picked up plaid wood sled ornaments at Dollar Tree* the other day

and couldn’t wait to start decorating on them.

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Materials Used:

• Plain Wood Sleds from Dollar Tree*
• Plaid Apple Barrel Acrylic Paint:  Flamenco Red*, English Ivy Green, and Admiral Blue*
• Walnut Stain*
• Mod Podge Matte*
• Sanding Block*
• StyleTechCraft White Ultra Metallic Glitter Vinyl*
• StyleTechCraft Brushed Gold Chrome Vinyl*
• Silhouette Cameo Electronic Die Cutting Machine*
• StyleTechCraft Vinyl Transfer Tape*
• StyleTechCraft Vinyl Tool Kit*
• Red Gingham Ribbon*, Frosted Jingle Bells and Pine Craft Stem*
• Xyron Multi-Stick Glue Gun*

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Directions:

• Give the wood sleds a light sanding using fine-grit sandpaper or a sanding block.
• Mask off sections of the sled with removable tape and paint with acrylic paint or stains.
• Lightly sand over the sleds to smooth the grains.
• For a finished look, seal over the painted and stained area with Mod Podge Matte Sealer.

You COULD leave the sled just as they are and be happy. But I decided to take it a step further.

• I love adding StyleTechCraft vinyl to projects to personalize them.  (everything’s a little better with vinyl)
• I used my Silhouette Cameo Electronic Die Cutting Machine*and an SVG Holiday File from the Silhouette Store to cut the words out of the vinyl.
• Remove the excess vinyl from in and around the cut letters.
• Place a piece of vinyl transfer tape* over the vinyl words. Rub over the vinyl transfer tape* with a vinyl scraper tool to ensure the vinyl words have transferred.  Lift and remove from the backing paper.

• Rub over the vinyl words with the scraper tool to make sure the vinyl words have transferred to the sled.

• Gently lift and remove the transfer paper.

Before I applied the vinyl, I lightly splattered the sled with white acrylic paint and an old toothbrush.

• This is the “Be Merry” sled before and after.
• On this sled I painted the body of the sled with acrylic paint and stained the runners of the sled with a walnut stain.
• I created a small Holiday swag using a small piece of a pine craft stem, jingle bells and ribbon and hot glued it onto the sled.