Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Santa Ornament

As I was looking over this little blog, I was saddened that I had only posted 25 times last year.  Surely, I did more crafts than just 25!  You bet I did.  However, I just didn't post them.  Lots of things I simply forgot to take pictures of and these items were gifts.  Oh well.  But, some of the others,  I am going to go ahead and post now.  Better late than never...
For my ward's Christmas Relief Society Activity, we offered this free craft to the sisters.  I found the idea from Serena at Naptime Crafting.  We modified it a little bit to fit our budget and activity time frame. We used round balls instead of the square balls.  Serena also used pieces of red scrapbook paper that she rolled and then stuffed into the glass ball.  However, as we were planning on about 80 balls, that seemed like way too much work.  We decided to use strips of red curling ribbon.  Each ball ended up taking about 9ft total.  Still, it ended up cheaper and faster than paper would have been.  We also glued on black velvet ribbon for Santa's belt instead of painting on a black belt.   I love the result. 

1 comment:

Serena said...

I love your version - thanks for the shout out. :) I bet the curling ribbon looks nice in there since it's shiny. The paper I used is dull. And since my children shattered mine this year, it's the perfect time to re-do it and use curling ribbon instead.

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