Welcome to my blog if you're new here! My friend Juliana from 17 Turtles invited me to guest design for her with some of her amazing cut files today and you can see the layout I created with some Christmas files on her blog over HERE. I also shared a Christmas ornament that I made with those files and have instructions below on how you can create your own.
Amazing, right? And super simple to make! My daughter's best stroke in swimming is breaststroke so this will be for and later, my son who is a talented backstroke swimmer, will get a matching boy backstroke ornament.
Here's how you make them.
Materials;
Directions;
1. Using your Silhoutte cut your transparency film to be slightly smaller than the size of your ornament. My ornament is 3.5 inches wide so I cut my circle to be 3.25 inches wide.
I resized this file from Lori Whitlock available HERE.
2. Again using your Silhouette (or other electronic cutting machine) cut the image that you want from Core'dinations Sticky Backed Glitter Sheets. I used Juliana Michaels' backstroke swimmer and sized it the width of my transparency.
4. Roll up your transparency as such:
5. Insert the tight roll into the opening of the ornament. It's kind of like putting a message in a bottle! Once inside, it will pop open and if necessary, use tweezers to center and position the insert where you want it.
6. Looks great, right? But you want a little more pizzazz so here comes the messy part. Using a funnel, add some snow. I used Stampendous mica fragments but you can buy cheaper snow this time of year at the craft store. I wanted a little extra "umpf" so I added some snowflake and star sequins both in front of and behind the transparency.
7. Snip off the top of the transparency so that you can insert the little silver (or gold) topper back on the ornament. Tie a pretty bow and if you have one of those nifty Imaginisce ribbon cutters, use it to seal off a nice "v" to the ends of your ribbon!
OK so this is an amazing idea!!!
Posted by: Wendy Antenucci | Wednesday, 10 December 2014 at 11:19 PM
Wow Suzanna, this is so super fun and easy!! What a great idea!! Thanks girl! Pinning!
Posted by: Monique Liedtke | Thursday, 04 December 2014 at 11:00 AM
I just love this custom ornament Suzanna! Thanks again for guest designing for 17turtles!!!
Posted by: Juliana | Wednesday, 03 December 2014 at 12:11 PM