30 day's of Handmade Christmas gifts ~Day 23

Hello and welcome to day 23 of the 30 Days of Handmade Christmas Gift Giving Blog Hop! If you came here from Jill's blog over at the Scrapoholic then you are in the right place!  If you just stopped by my blog and would like to see the past 22 days of the Hop Jill has them posted on her blog so check it out.

I decided to make a Christmas Ornament. My MIL gave me one a long time ago and said here figure out how to make this.  It was pretty but I just never really did anything with it. Year after year it sat in my Christmas ornament box. I never used it. I would  unwrap it see what it was and wrap it back in paper.  So this year for this hop for whatever reason that little ornament came to mind.  So I went out digging through all of my Christmas stuff and I couldn't find the darn thing for the life of me. So I just went with what I could remember.

Now I was really surprised as to what it was made with.  I used a light bulb, a water bottle cap and a water bottle lid.

First thing I did was  poke a hole in the middle of the bottle cap.

Then I took a piece of wire and made a loop for hanging the ornament.

I then twisted the wire together on the inside of the bottle cap and added some hot glue to help reinforce it.

I then hot glued the cap to the light bulb.

Next you want to hot glue the  bottle lid the bottom of the light bulb.

Using a neutral color I paint the entire ornament. Then let it dry for maybe 10 minutes.

Next I took this Krylon Easy Tack. (The same spray glue I use to re stick my Cricut mats) I sprayed the ornament all over.

Then I took Martha Stewart Garnet Glitter and sprinkled it on the glue and this is what I came up with.

I went to Joann's before I begun the project and grabbed a few different things I thought would work for this project.  I only ended up using a couple of the items for this one.

I used the hot glue gun to attach the trim to the ornament. Now this is what I finished with and I really didn't like it. It was pretty and sparkly but I felt that something was missing.

So I found some ribbon with red and silver and glued it to the top and I think it turned out really pretty.  There are so many options for decorating. You could also take a vinyl letter and put it on then take it off when it was all done to make it a monogrammed ornament. 

Well thank you for stopping by to take a look, I hope that you liked it. Be sure to check back tomorrow on Jill's blog to see who the next blogger is with another fun project.

I'm back!!!

Hi everyone! I know it's been awhile. It's been the craziest last 2 months.  I have lived at the same house for 16 years and my husband and I decided that it was time to move on.  We wanted a new start in a new place.  We came across a beautiful home that was the same size as the one we had but this one has a pool and fireplace and almost most important a dishwasher. I've never had an automatic dishwasher.  The problem was there wasn't really any "extra" rooms for a scrapbook room.  Now if you've followed me for a while or if you go into lables to scrapbook room you will see I had my own space at our old home so this move I was afraid was going to be devistating to my crafting space. But I've figured it all out and I absolutly love the new space.  I've still got a few boxes to unpack but when I do I will post pictures so you can see. 

Now Jill over at the Scrapoholic has been doing a 30 days of handmade Christmas gift blog hop and tomorrow is my day.  I wanted to do a practice blog just to check in and make sure I still new how to blog...lol.  So please come back tomorrow and see what I've made for my day of Handmade Christmas gifts.