Hipster Ornaments 🦌⛄️🎅🏻

Hi again! Hope you are feeling the holiday cheer in the air 😁🎁 Thought I’d share some cute playing-card size paper ornaments I made for my work-in-progress Tim Holtz tree 🎄

I was messing around painting and embossing some mixed media heavystock pieces and this cool set came together (I actually didn’t mean for them to coordinate but I’m in love with how they all compliment each other! 😍)

I cut my guys from the Cool Yule die set…

I was debating what shapes to use for the bases, but landed on medium Stitched Rectangles (could easily have substituted playing cards ♦️)

Once I had my papers glued on my rectangle bases (and a circle for my snowman), I added Walnut Stain crayon to the seams for extra definition and glooped on some collage medium around the edges to hide the layers…

Next I shaped, inked the edges, and assembled my characters, then glued them on their backgrounds

Also used my Crop-o-dile tool to add eyelets to the top corners

(I thought the insides of the deer’s glasses would make cute coal for the snowman ✨)

Finishing Touches…

Cut my greenery from the Holiday Greens set (wish I made some red holly berries to go with, but still cute!) 

Lastly, added a few remnant rubs for sentiments and ephemera pieces to give a bit more detail to each before staining twine and tying on my hangers

Hope you like them, I sure do! Thanks so much for visiting! Get some holiday crafting in too, won’t you?

x Erin 🤗

Products used…

Dies… Cool Yule, Holiday Greens, Stitched Rectangles

Surfaces… Mixed media heavystock paper

Distress Paints… Picket Fence, Peeled Paint, Vintage Photo, Walnut Stain, Barn Door, Black Soot, Antique Linen

Distress stain… walnut stain

Distress Glazes… Picket Fence, Peeled Paint, Vintage Photo, Walnut Stain, Barn Door, Black Soot, Antique Linen

Stamps… Tapestry

Other Distress… collage matte medium, walnut stain crayon

Idealogy… remnant rubs, holiday 2023 ephemera

Tools… Big Shot, glass mat, Crop-o-dile 

Other… twine, eyelets

Noel Deer ornament 🦌

Hello hello! Hope you’re staying cozy (and crafty!) on these chilly days 🥶 Sharing a little wintery ‘cloche’ ornament I created, packed with crackly Tim Holtz goodness 🤤 

Was feeling in the groove on this one and didn't capture a ton of my process, but here's a few random snaps along the way ⤵️ Hope you like it!

Not me crafting while the kids watch Bluey! Win-win I say 🥰

Adding washi tape to the edges to hide the inner layers

Here's what the "final" edges (kind of) look like...

Obsessed that it's see-through… my vision came to life! 

And that's that on that!

Thanks so much for checking out my project! Get in touch if you're curious about anything specific, always love hearing from this wonderful community!

Happy crafting!

xErin

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Tim Holtz products used…

Dies... Birch Trees, Darling Deer, Tiny Type Lower, mini snowflakes, Village Christmastime (mini wreath)

Surfaces... Heavystock paper, arched baseboard frames (x2), Bracket Trim pieces (x3), clear acetate sheet, medium thickboard tag reinforcer (for the top of the cloche)

Mediums... Rock Candy clear crackle, collage medium, 

Distress Paint... Walnut Stain (bracket trim + top circle), Antique Linen (trees), Rustic Wilderness (wreath), Speckled Egg (frames), Vintage Photo (deer)

Other Distress... Walnut Stain crayon, clear embossing ink, white embossing powder

Ideaology... mini hardware heads, washi tape, clear snowflakes, icicles

Tools... Big Shot, glass mat, heat gun, blending brush

Random bits... cheesecloth for the snow, twine for the hanger