Shop Now: Paper Harbor Co. Drum-shaped ornaments are among the most iconic Christmas decorations. But you don't need to scour antiques stores and flea markets to drum up your own set—all it takes to make the ornaments are plain wooden boxes, festive ribbon, and glue.
Decorate round boxes by attaching patterned ribbon around the bases and lids with craft glue. For our 3-inch-wide box, we glued a 1-inch-wide ribbon around the base. To create a strap for hanging the ornament, cut a length of thin ribbon, and glue each end to the inside lip of the box lid.
Optional: If using the ornaments as favors, line their interiors with decorative paper cupcake liners, and fill them with cookies, truffles, or other small treats. Forest animals, mushrooms, and bristle ornaments mix the natural and the fantastical—and bring texture to your tree. Print templates; cut out. Trace templates onto felt with tailor's chalk, and cut out.
Place a felting-needle mat under felt, and lay a few tufts of roving side by side where desired. Using a needle-felting tool, punch fibers through felt until they transfer evenly to the reverse side.
Remove stray fibers by pressing felted area with one hand and teasing out stray pieces with the other. Repeat until area is covered. Use a screw punch to make a hole at the top. Hang with twine. When former Living crafts editor Blake Ramsey didn't have enough trimmings for her first Christmas tree, she beautifully embellished affordable glass balls. Fill squeeze bottles with paints. Add gloss finish as desired to thin color and make it more translucent. Make a drying rack by inserting wooden skewers into foam board.
Remove caps from ornaments. For speckled ornaments: Use a narrow-tip bottle to squirt paint upward into an ornament so it spatters. Let dry upside down for one day on the rack. Then add a second layer: Squeeze a small amount of new color into ornament so it runs down sides, then rotate ornament to spread the paint.
Repeat as needed for the desired effect. For streaked ornaments: Repeat the above steps, but don't let the first color dry. Add second layer right away so colors swirl together. For solid ornaments: Use a wide-tip bottle to squeeze paint into the ornament so it runs down the sides, then rotate ornament to spread paint.
Repeat to achieve the desired look. Let all the ornaments dry for one day on drying rack. Paint caps with paintbrush, and let them dry. These are butterfly ornaments that evoke an antique spun-glass German pair. The supplies for making them are not as elusive as the originals: We purchased spun-glass wings from a specialty craft shop and combined them with clay bodies—adding painted details in red and white.
Two by two, they adorn the boughs of your Christmas tree: These animal ornaments that look just like cookies but are long lasting and "iced" with glue and glitter. To make a batch, combine two cups of flour and 1 cup of salt. Slowly mix in one cup of warm water. Knead for seven to 10 minutes on a floured surface. Freeze for 30 minutes. Preheat oven to degrees. Use cookie cutters to cut out animal shapes. Insert screw eyes at top of shapes. Bake for four to six hours.
Let them cool. In a bottle, mix craft glue and paint to desired color. Outline an animal with colored glue. For a solid glitter effect, coat glue immediately. For a more layered look, let first coat of glue dry overnight, then apply second color for details, adding tinsel or regular glitter, or microbeads as desired.
Use glitter glue pens for small details. You'll need one screw eye for hanging for each ornament. These refined ornaments—some brightened with gold or silver leaf, others tinted in soft pastels—are among the dozens adorning Martha's tree.
Her own collections of antique china, including Wedgwood drabware, jasperware, and Old Paris porcelain, served as inspiration. To make them, use a paintbrush to apply acrylic paint yellow ocher for gold leaf, white for silver leaf to both sides of an architectural ornament; let dry. With another brush, apply size an adhesive available at art-supply stores to the front of the ornament and drape a gold- or silver-leaf sheet over the front of the ornament; smooth gently with fingers. Loop cord through top of the ornament and tie, or attach a looped cord with hot glue.
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