12 super easy DIY Christmas decorations you can make at home! The latest for 2025!

Hey there, I'm Amy from thecrazycraftlady.com. It's officially July, which means it's time to start Christmas in July crafting, and I think there's no way better to kick it off than with some homemade DIY Christmas ornaments. So I have 12 brand new Christmas ornaments for 2025 to share with you. I hope you enjoy watching them come together as much as I enjoy making them. Let's get to it. Here I started with two empty glass spice jars, just little spice jars. One had a green lid, so I just took that outside and gave it a quick couple of coats with Rust-Oleum Ultra Matte spray paint in the color Coastal Sage. And then I came in and I had wanted to make a little base. We're going to make little mini snow globes. So I traced the top of my jar onto a piece of white cardstock paper. You don't want cards, uh, cardboard. You don't want printer paper. You want cardstock. It has a little bit of bend. It's more flexible than cardboard and more bendy than printer paper. Cut it a little smaller than the opening. You want it to be able to kind of slide into the jar, but still be big enough to hold. You'll see we're going to add little embellishments. So I just grabbed my hot glue gun and I hot glued a little deer and a little bottle brush tree to one circle and then two bottle brush trees to another circle. And these are going to be the little scenes for my snow globes. And you'll see you kind of have to squeeze and pop them in there. So you don't want to do too big of an embellishment. So go for like really mini bottle brush trees and little decorations there. And then you're also going to grab some Epsom salt for your snow. So I just have a big jar that we keep by the bathtub and I sprinkled it in my hand and then I poured it right into each of the little jars. Just enough to cover that little circle of cardstock paper to create a little snowy scene inside your snow globes. And then I also went one step further and in my larger jar I decided to hang a wreath from the jar lid. So all I did was I just added a dab of hot glue to jar lid and then I pressed that little gold floss hanger right into that dab of hot glue. And then from there you can screw the lids back onto your glass jars. And then I made a hanger with red and white baker's twine here. So I took two lengths, one longer and one shorter of the baker's twine. With the longer length you're going to make a loop there that is bigger than your jar lid. And then you're going to tie a double knot with your shorter piece of baker's twine on each side of that double loop there. And that will be the hanger for the jar. Then drape that double loop over the jar and then tighten each end. And then make sure that the handles each end of that little short piece are evenly spaced on either side of the jar. And then once that double loop is totally tightened you can then secure that with a double knot as well. And then just trim all make sure your double knots are super tight and then you can just trim off any excess with a scissor or if you have enough length of twine you could do a simple bow if that makes you happy. But here are my little upcycled spice jar snow globe ornaments. I found this four pack of mini stretched canvases at Hobby Lobby. They measure three inches by three inches. You're going to use all four of them and we're going to make busted canvas ornaments. So the first thing we want to do is make a backer for our canvas. For this I just used a scrap piece of I think just like cardstock paper, manila folder, something like very thin. You don't want thick corrugated cardboard but you don't want printer paper either. And I just traced it with a thin sharpie marker on all four sides and then I cut these out just inside that sharpie line. We want a backer that's going to perfectly match the back of each one of these stretched canvases. Then from there you're going to flip each stretched canvas over. If you've never seen a busted canvas tutorial trust the process. Bear with me, I swear it's totally worth it. So you want to pick one complementary color. I chose a metallic. This is decoart extreme sheen metallic paint in the color antique bronze. I'm sure any antique bronze, any antique gold metallic would be just fine for this craft. Do not worry about exact paint colors but you want to paint all the way up to that wooden frame of that stretched canvas. But remember you're painting the back side because we're going to use both the front and the back. And then after that I flipped my canvases over and I painted the front. Not only the front but the edge as well. So all the way around the four edges and the front surface. Now these paint colors are my go-to waverly chalk paints. If you shop at Walmart you know what I'm talking about. Waverly chalk paint in the color moss as well as waverly chalk paint in the color night sky. I did two of each but like I said don't get worried about the paint color. Use what you like. I have some free printables that I'm going to give you and these complement the free printables or you can find your own free printables and shrink them down to size and use you know you could use red and green classic Christmas colors I think would look great as well. And then I also used that same green and blue paint to paint those four squares that I had cut out of my cardstock paper and those are going to serve as the back of our Christmas ornaments. So you know I like to finish the backs of my projects in case someone happens to look at the back of them especially because Christmas ornaments can get flipped around so easily. I think it just is a nice extra step to paint the back as well. And then from here here's a free printable I'm going to link to it it's on my blog. They're just little Christmas images and I set my painted backing centered on each little image marked off the edges with a sharpie marker and then I cut them out. Now you definitely want to cut these just a hair smaller than the square backers are going to be. You don't want them to stick out outside of your ornament but you don't want them to be so small that they come inside the wooden frame of that stretched canvas. So the size that you're aiming for is smaller than the outer edge of that wooden frame but bigger than the inner edge of the wooden square frame on the back of the stretched canvas. I hope that makes sense. Then I just use a regular school glue stick to adhere each little image to each little cardstock square for each little ornament. So there's four of them total. Now you get to score. So I used my pen blade and my cutting mat. You could use a small cutting mat for little projects on my craft desk so I don't have to get out my big cutting mat that I use for sewing. And you cut six little slits. So it's actually a star with three long lines or six short lines if you don't cross over the center. I didn't cross over the center so I did six. I think I did one long line and then four short lines. Either way you just want to make this star that you could then punch out. Now the painted canvas gets a little tricky to slice through with a pen blade so you can get it started and then you can finish it up with just a pair of craft scissors and then really solidify those cut lines because you want to be able to open up and create this busted canvas effect. So this is where the word busted in busted canvas comes from. So from here you're going to flip over each little stretched canvas. Two dabs of hot glue which will then secure a little length of twine to be your hanger for your ornament. And then once that hanger is securely in place you're going to add a line of hot glue all the way around the back of that wooden frame there. And then working very quickly you want to flip your image over onto that wooden frame to complete your ornament. So here's the back of your ornament and then you're going to flip it over and then you're going to roll back each of those six little triangle quarters. So you may have to cut a little bit more. You really want to go pretty close to that edge of the wooden frame when you cut these slits. On other busted canvases when I do them on a large scale I don't necessarily need to do this but because the canvas paint material was painted on both sides it got really thick so I needed as much space as I possibly could to get these little triangles to roll all the way back and stick in place. So I used a pen. Going back I may even should have used like a paintbrush because it would have been a smaller barrel than the pen but you can use the pen to kind of guide and coax along that curve that you're then going to hot glue down. So you're going to repeat that hot gluing process on all six of those little triangles and then repeat it again on the other three stretched canvases. And here you have little busted canvas mini ornaments. If you haven't followed along on the busted canvas trend I'll link some below or in the video description. They are really super fun to make. Okay let's make some stars. So I just printed off this little star template in canva. I will make a link for a pdf that you can just print if you want to use this otherwise just draw a star on a piece of paper. You could use transfer paper but I just scribbled all over the back with some pencil and then I used that same pencil to trace over my two star shapes and this transfers the pencil on the back of the paper onto the front of your piece of scrap cardboard. The line is fairly faint when you do pencil but if you use carbon transfer paper it's a much darker line. It's your choice. I bought a stack of carbon transfer paper sheets on amazon quite a while ago. They last forever but this is just another image transfer method. Then I grabbed my heavy duty craft scissors. These are Fiskars. They're great for cutting cardboard and I just very carefully cut out a large star shape and then I wanted to keep that small star in the center intact so for that I grabbed my cutting mat and my pen blade. Oh there's the top of my head and my sunglasses there sorry guys. The joys of an overhead camera mount right? And so I just traced over that pencil line with my pen blade. I had to score several times to get all the way through. I think because there was a printed image on the other side of this piece of scrap cardboard I should have used an amazon box. This was a box fun fact from an as seen on tv you know those expandable 100 foot hoses. I bought one at Menards. So far I'm pretty happy with it. I for sure thought it was a gimmick but um not so much and it's way lighter than a big heavy green hose. Anyway uh I digress. I love sharing what boxes I'm like what impulse purchase this cardboard box came from and then I upcycle it into a craft. But I just used my pen blade there to cut all the way through those layers of cardboard and this way I had a star outline and then a little mini star that I could work with. Then I pulled out this yarn it's from Dollar Tree. Just a nice neutral grayish. I cut a length and I tied it into a knot to make a little loop and that's gonna be your little ornament hanger. We're gonna hot glue it to the back of one of the stars. You'll see I forgot to do the second one but I salvaged it at the end. You'll see it later on in the video. But I just took my yarn and I wrapped it around my fingers 20-30 times just so I had a smaller bunch of yarn that I was working with because we're gonna wrap these stars and you can't fit that whole bundle of yarn through the center of that little star. So I'm gonna I'm gonna count these as lines. So you have five points to the star and 10 lines that make up the star. So the first thing you're going to do is wrap each of the 10 lines. So wrap one line straight at like a 90 degree angle so the cardboard cut is at a 90 degree angle to the yarn that you're wrapping. You can hot glue a tiny bit as you go along the back but once you reach that first inside point of the star things get a little tricky. So you're gonna want to work all the way up to that inside point. Make sure that inside point is covered with yarn so use a couple dabs of hot glue on each of those rows leading up to the inside point and afterwards and then on the outside of that inside point you're gonna backtrack with your yarn just a little bit so that you can continue going at a 90 degree angle to your second line of the star. So you're gonna have to do a couple dabs of hot glue along that inside point to get everything laying correctly but then you're gonna continue to wrap all the way around that second line all the way until you can't anymore because you're going to reach the inside of that first outer point. So once I get this finished here I'm going to hot glue it. Trim off the tail end until you see I've done one section of two lines and then you'll want to continue that process for the other five sections of the star. And then once you have that done it's time to do the five points of the star. So start with a dab of hot glue at the tip of one of the points at the end of your yarn. Make a tiny little coil that's just kind of be glued and sit right on that point of the star. We're not wrapping yet we're just it's just a little coil that's going to get glued on top and then that makes it easier to build your rows of your coil below that if you have a solid foundation on the point of your star. And then wrap all the way down until there's no more cardboard showing and then you can hot glue in the back and then continue with the remaining five points. Now it's time to do the small star. So I wanted to cover the center first and then do the point second. So for the center there was no rhyme or reason here it was just random. I'd go three wrap three times in one direction and then switch directions. The main point is you just want that main section like that main pentagon section of that star to be completely covered with yarn before you move on to doing the points. So just hot glue in the back and then cut off that tail end. And then just like we did with the big star I trimmed off the points just a tiny bit to make it a little easier to hot glue that first teeny tiny little coil right on the point of the star. But once you get that coil hot glued in place it's real easy to then just do your rows all the way down the point of the star. So then wrap all the way down to the base of the point make sure that there's no cardboard showing like you work all the way down. You're going to glue not only in the back but in the front that final row just to make sure that there's no gaps with any of the cardboard showing. And then you'll see I almost forgot to add a hanger but I caught myself after I covered three points of the star I went back and I just made a little loop of yarn and I hot glued it to the back of one of the points and then I continued on wrapping those final two points with yarn and then I very simply embellished. So two types of bows here one is a mini bow where I hot glue a figure eight of ribbon. This is great for really teeny tiny ribbons. Cut the ends at a 45 degree angle and then wrap the center of that figure eight with another tiny piece of ribbon. So glue in the back wrap it around the front bring it back to the back make sure that the tail ends are hanging at the angle that you want before you hot glue and then trim until it's like a figure eight wrapped with a little piece of ribbon and then it makes the illusion of a bow. So I did that on the tiny little star with three little faux berries. Oh don't forget to burn very carefully very very carefully with a lighter I burn the edges so that the ends of my ribbons don't fray and then I did a larger sprig of berries with a holly leaf on my larger star and for this I did the bunny ears method so one loop two loop tie them in a knot it's a little trickier because the centerpiece I had to flip right side out because this is not two-sided ribbon it's only one-sided ribbon so it was a little bit more wonky to finagle so that the right side was facing forward but once you do your bunny ears you can kind of finagle get the loop to the loops to the size that you want and then the tail ends once again cut at a 45 degree angle and then very very very carefully heat seal them so that they don't fray and then just hot glue everything to the top of your little ornament there and then here we have two little yarn star Christmas ornaments I think this would be fun to make with chunkier yarn different size stars or even with twine. So Hobby Lobby sells these multi packs of just acrylic ornament blanks they're just little acrylic circles with a hole in the top I just went into Cricut design space and I put in like Christmas text or joy or whatever and I found these graphics and I just printed them out I cut them out on my Cricut and then used transfer tape to transfer them to my ornaments now I try not to do Cricut crafts too often because I know not everyone has a Cricut you could also buy like rub-on transfers I know Dollar Tree has them or use a black paint pen to hand write you just want something on the front of the acrylic ornament there that you can then contrast with what you're going to paint on the back and so I had my four little ornaments with my black vinyl letters and then I used FolkArt home decor chalk paint in the color sage and a flat one inch paint brush and I just painted um a squiggly shape on the back of the ornament that just covered all of that black adhesive vinyl so no two ornaments are going to be exactly the same just kind of freehand it you're looking there I'll put my hand behind so you can see you just kind of want to use your best judgment you don't want to paint too much you don't want to paint too little but you for sure want to just make sure all of the black lettering is covered now I'll try to show you here one coat is not sufficient coverage you can still see through and it's not totally opaque so I had to let that first coat dry but then on my second coat I went through with a smaller paint brush it's more of a fine point paint brush and I just painted a whole second coat over everywhere that I have painted with that first coat this will just give you a more opaque finish as a background to your black letters super easy and then I just finished it off I've been going through a velvet ribbon um era I guess so I just cut a 10 inch piece of this teal velvet ribbon I'll link to it in the video description that really complemented my chalk paint color run it through that little hole in the top of the ornament tie it in a knot make sure your ends are cut at a 45 degree angle and you're in business my four cute little new acrylic ornaments this would be great for family members names um your family name with like established what year or even as I've done in another craft I did the names of Jesus I think this would be a really fun modern way to do that it seems like for the past several years now Dollar Tree has sold these little light up light bulb Christmas light bulb necklaces we're gonna craft with them so we're gonna disassemble it because I I'm sure bright colors are for some people they are definitely not for me I found as I went along I was able to finagle some of these lights out without ruining the strand and I felt really bad that I ended up having to throw away the light strand I think in the future I'm going to play around with this a little bit more and see if there's a way to more gently disassemble these so you could salvage that light strand for a different craft anyway I just uh disassembled you know the bulk piece and then the little metal piece well it's green plastic but it's supposed to be the metal piece on a light bulb we're gonna paint everything so I just pulled out some bamboo skewers I buy them at Dollar Tree they're for like barbecuing for the light bulbs I just added the tiniest dab of hot glue to the end of the skewer because you want to be able to remove the skewer later and then you just pop that right in the light bulb and this way you can easily paint your lights without them rolling around or hitting each other that way you can paint all the way around them in one fell swoop I started as I do with a lot of my projects when I need a quote primer this is plain white rust-oleum technically it's linen white rust-oleum chalk paint and it's a great base for a lot of projects especially when you're painting on a tricky surface like plastic so I just did one quick coat on all six of the light bulbs with the white chalk paint and then it was time to paint the little like metal parts that you know screw into the socket and for that I didn't want to use hot glue I couldn't figure out quite where I would hot glue it on so I grabbed some like sticky tacks a tacky putty it's for hanging posters on your walls without damaging them and so I just used a little ring of that around the end of a bamboo skewer and then I stuck the skewer into this hole in the center of that green plastic piece and then I just kind of smooshed the putty into the bottom of the green plastic piece and then this way I could paint these as well and for this I very simply just used antique gold rub and buff I use it on the tiniest piece of a scrap clean dish sponge so I just have like one that's kind of cut up and wonky looking and whenever I need a piece of sponge I just cut off whatever I need but just buff in that antique gold rub and buff using your little sponge piece onto each of those six little green plastic pieces and this way they'll look more metal and um gold is very in right now so I'm really really liking the antique gold rub and buff and by this time my first coat of white chalk paint had dried now for this I'm doing kind of a non-traditional color but I like baby blue at Christmas time when paired with gold so the darker of the two shades is folk art matte paint in the color greenscape and folk art home decor chalk paint in the color sage they're very like quite similar I just wanted to try a one lighter shade and one darker shade just for funsies and I had to let that first coat dry and then go back and do a second coat for complete coverage so between the base layer and then your two coats of color paint you're gonna do three coats all together so a little bit of dry time in between plenty of opportunity to go work on another craft and come back to this and then finally I just decided I wanted a little bit more distressing or distressing at all on my little light bulbs so I came back with an even tinier scrap of dish sponge and even teeny tiniest little bit of antique gold rub and buff and I very carefully brushed back and forth in the same direction and just distressed up those light bulbs the tiniest little bit and then to finish it off we need to make a hanger for my little lights so I popped my little painted gold piece off its bamboo skewer I cut a 10 inch length of this is kind of a creamish color twine I got it at Michael's maybe but it's like that regular twine that then has one little floss of gold throughout so it kind of plays off the gold on top of the light bulb there and then I fold the piece of twine in half and wrap the end with painter's tape and then you cut the painter's tape at an angle and this way you can thread this through without it fraying so you can then run the piece of painter's tape through the hole through the top of the hole in that little gold plastic piece there tie it with a simple knot tug it to secure and then from there you can just screw that top right back onto the light bulb and you have a cute little ornament here so I'll show you one more time the process of cutting 10 inches of twine then we're going to fold it in half wrap it with painter's tape cut the painter's tape at an angle run that cut painter's tape through the top of the little gold piece tie it with a knot two easy and so here I have six little ornaments three of the lighter color and two of the darker color you can either hang these individually maybe on a smaller tree because they are kind of small or maybe hang them think like bell style in a cluster of three at varied staggered heights I think would be super cute too for this craft we're going to upcycle some jar lids these are just little jars from like olives and pickles and things I'm going to take it outside spray paint a coat of white primer and then some gold this is rust-oleum metallic gold I don't even know if the jar says what it is it just says metallic looking back maybe I would have done rub and buff because it did take a while because it was a very humid day to get the primer and then the two coats of gold and then I had to flip the jar lids over and spray paint again but live and learn and then I grabbed these little wood cut out snowflakes from Hobby Lobby and I just painted them with plain old black chalk paint I set them on a piece of parchment paper so that as the paint dried the little wood wouldn't stick to my work surface there and I thought I would be smart by just painting the front and the back and that would be good enough but it didn't always get to the edges so I did go back with a fine point paint brush and my camera got a little out of focus here sorry about that but I just kind of painted anywhere on the edges where I could still see any unfinished wood it only took like 30 seconds so no big deal and then I brought my little jar lids in and I grabbed my e6000 glue and I put a few dabs on the back of each star and I glued them right into the center on the underside of each jar lid I will admit this is a little bit more glam of a theme than I normally get usually go more neutral rustic but fun nonetheless and then I had to make a hanger so I have this black velvet ribbon I actually ran out mid-project and I'll show you how I salvaged it but I just measured a seven inch hanger and then hot glued all the way around so you start with like a seven inch tail and then hot glue all the way around the jar and then you have another seven inch tail left over and so from there you can tie a simple knot in both of those tails one at the very base right up next to the jar lid but then you can also tie another one closer to the other tail ends and that makes your little hanger so you have a little loop between the two knots as a hanger for your ornament you'll see here I ended up with two smaller pieces of ribbon so I just wrapped all the way around the jar lid and then when I got to the other end where they've started to overlap I trimmed it off and hot glued it and then I just took a 14 inch length of ribbon maybe a little longer than 14 inch and I folded it in half and I knotted it at the folded end that knot will then get hot glued where the two seams marry up on my ribbon there on the edge of the jar lid and then just like on the other ones I just tied the other end of those tail ends to make a hanger and here are my three little finished kind of glam upcycled jar lid Christmas ornaments for this craft you'll want to start out with some mod podge and some wood rounds I ordered these wood rounds off Amazon because they have a pre-drilled hole but you could also use the more rustic wood slice rounds that have the bark on it still totally your preference just give a quick coat of mod podge this is matte mod podge just because that's usually my go-to because I craft with a lot of chalk paint so I find myself using matte mod podge so that I have a matte finish uniformly across all of my projects but you could use whatever type of mod podge you like and then set that aside to dry and then I went into canva to print my images the elements I previously searched for circle frame so I'm going to put that in now my little wood rounds that I ordered are four inches in diameter so I'm going to make these like 4.1 duplicate and duplicate and then from here I've already uploaded dragged and dropped my vacation photos so we've got a camping trip and deception pass we've got Mexico and we've got Washington DC so now you could leave these as is but I'm going to zoom in and I'm going to add some text so start with Mexico that was 2019 side note that was a cruise and we had another one planned for March of 2020 and I think you can all guess what happened to that one it most definitely did not happen okay so effects I'm going to curve and I want it to match the curvature of my circle there so it'll like line up now you can double click and drag this photo around so I want to add a little bit more sand at the bottom so that my text shows up you can also use um if you want to nudge it I'm just going to use my up and down arrow on my keyboard but I think I like that and then I'm going to add another one Washington DC that was 2022. Now I have to think about how I want this one to work out because it's hard to read that so I'm going to play around with let's do like maybe an outline let's do a black outline and then change the font to white and then I really want that outline to pop so I'm going to make it more thick I'm also gonna I'm just gonna brighten up my photo just a tad bit okay so you see where we're going here and I might actually do that same effect on this guy just so that your font really pops and then from here you can just print these out on your home regular inkjet printer and then here are my three little printed images with the text on them and then I just grabbed my craft scissors and very carefully cut out the circles I think somewhere I do have a circle cutter that's adjustable but I so infrequently need to use it that I just didn't bother cutting it out bother getting it out excuse me but just trim really close to the edge of the image and make sure there's none of that white paper showing but I guess if there is a little bit we're going to kind of cover it so not the end of the world you don't have to do a perfect job and then on the dried mod podge I centered my circle now for whatever reason this circle was a little bit smaller than my four inch wood round which is kind of a gripe with canva I guess because I set it to 4.1 so it shouldn't have been an issue but either way it's fine because we're going to cover that little edge there but I just used my mini heat press or you can use an iron with no steam with this piece of parchment paper to protect the image that you printed off and what that's going to do is reactivate the mod podge so you get a perfect seal without having to deal with smoothing out and working around any type of bubbles or anything like that and then like I said we're going to cover the edge so I took a like a quarter inch paint brush and I just painted a little bit you'll see me kind of like scraping the brush along the edge of that ornament there because we want to cover that little lip between the edge of the picture and the edge of the wood round also we want the glitter that you can see a little pile on my work surface we want that glitter to show not on the edge of the ornament but along the perimeter the circumference of the front of the circle as well and then so once I had my mod podge everywhere I just rolled very carefully the edge of my ornament through some silver glitter here I very rarely use glitter but I feel like at Christmas it's I get a pass maybe this will probably be my one glitter craft for the next 18 months so enjoy but then once all that mod podge glitter had dried I used my little pen blade tool to kind of re-poke that hole through the image you could use like a little skewer or toothpick whatever works and then I just have this silver and white baker's twine I cut it down to I believe 10 inches long strung it through the little hole that I had recreated with my pen blade and then just secure very simply at the top with a double knot and you're in business I think this is a great alternative to buying ornaments at gift shops on vacation because I find that those can get super expensive so I pick a select few that I'm gonna buy on vacation and the rest I can just take a photo and make an ornament for a buck all right let's make some Christmas ornaments so I just started with these plain wood rounds I ordered a bunch of them off Amazon they're just unfinished wood and they have a hole drilled at the top so perfect for hanging little Christmas ornaments I just grabbed my plain white Rust-Oleum chalk paint and I painted one side of each of the ornaments you just need to paint one side this is actually going to be the back and then once that paint had dried you're gonna grab your peel and stick wallpaper so I used a wood pattern on this I thought it was just a nice pretty neutral blank canvas so just smooth down a square of peel and stick wallpaper flip your ornament over grab your little craft knife and trim away all of the excess all the way around the circle there so repeat this on however many ornaments that you want to make you can make one you can make 20 the sky's the limit and then I just went into Cricut design space so I'm going to show you here if you want to take a screenshot of like the font and stuff that I used I just played around and I wanted to do the names of Jesus my sister inspired me she had seen these Christmas ornaments like on Etsy and she's working on a quilt with the I just thought it was a really fun idea and so I cut these out on Cricut design space just on plain black adhesive vinyl and then you just grab your transfer tape and your smoothing tool and transfer all of your little decals onto your wood rounds if you don't have a Cricut you could use a black paint marker paint pen or rub on decals like image transfers I think would be really fun on this wood grain peel and stick wallpaper and if you don't want to do names of Jesus you could do names of family members or any fun like cheery Christmas words or anything else that you like but then I decided my ornaments looked a little unfinished so I grabbed some twine just plain jute twine and my hot glue gun and I hot glued twine all the way around the edge of each ornament I just thought it gave it a little bit more of a finished look and a little bit more texture and dimension and then finish everything off by stringing up each ornament with twine now the twine can get a little bit frayed so I like to wrap one end in painter's tape use my craft knife to poke a hole in that peel and stick wallpaper then you can string the twine through cut the painter's tape off and then secure everything in the top with a simple knot just a little quick tip to keep your twine from fraying but there you have it here are my finished Christmas ornaments okay for this I used just some rub-on image transfers I got a pack of them on Amazon you could use any type of image transfer a tiny scrap of a greeting card a printable printed down at a teeny tiny size the point is we just want a little tiny piece of art on this sheet of watercolor paper that we're going to then frame with some sticks so like I said this is watercolor paper it's thicker and more textured than cardstock I just thought that would be better for this project give it a little more texture I didn't want to go fully with fabric like a canvas fabric so this was kind of my compromise so I just grabbed my two little image transfer rub-ons I know you're supposed to use like a popsicle stick or a tool on projects as tiny as this I just use the back of my thumb like my fingernail and usually that works just fine but I layered one image transfer right over the other no problem and then once you have that plastic backing peeled off you can cut the paper down to size and then I grabbed my heavy duty craft scissors and some twigs from the yard and I cut the twigs down to size to make a frame but I wanted each side of the frame to be a little bit longer than the piece of art inside it because I wanted them to be able to overlap and you'll see these twigs have some curvature to them that's just fine they don't have to be perfectly stick straight I guess no pun intended then you're just going to take a piece of twine hot glue it to the back of the end of your first twig crisscross the ends of the two twigs and then wrap them a handful of times with twine so maybe three times in one direction and three times in another direction before you then hot glue the tail end of that twine to the back of the frame and then trim off the excess and so here I have three of them combined and then I'll show me adding my final piece of twig here I'm just gonna once again marry up the corners you see how they kind of overhang a little bit and then wrap it with twine and then finish it off with hot glue so here's my little frame I decided to trim down my image just my paper just a little bit so there'd be no overhang and it's tricky because these sticks don't lay perfectly flat so all you need to do is just add a couple of dabs where the sticks make contact with the paper so it's not going to be a solid line all the way around it's just going to be in a few slick spots so here I did way too much hot glue I ended up scraping some off with a pen blade so really even if you have three or four solid secure contact points with the glue and the stick you'd be just fine and then I don't know why I didn't film this but I added a little twine hanger hot glued it and then I wanted the back of my project to look finished and polished so I just grabbed a scrap piece of felt I trimmed it down to size and I hot glued that right to the back of the watercolor paper just to one I wanted an ornament to feel a little bit more substantial and I didn't want just paper on the back of the ornament I thought felt looked a little bit nicer and then you'll see here there was a tiny piece of felt on the edge hanging off so I just trimmed that away and that's it just a little mini super rustic very inexpensive little picture frame ornament and you could put literally in any image you want inside one of these all right where would we be without a dollar tree tumbling tower craft so we're gonna start with nine tumbling tower pieces we're only gonna put little eye hooks screw eyes screw eyes in three of them so mark with a pen evenly spaced dots so two dots in the top of three tumbling tower or jenga pieces I might just call them jenga pieces for this video now sometimes I have to do a pilot hole but today I got lucky and I just took my screw eye I hammered it in a little bit and then continued twisting and that caught just enough that I was able to screw that all the way in sometimes I'll take like a tiny little nail and I'll hammer it in and then pry it out to make a pilot hole I don't think it's necessary to pull out the power tools to drill a pilot hole in a project this small but all you need are two little screw eyes in the top of each of your three jenga pieces and then now it's time to assemble your ornament so it's just gonna be three little jenga pieces tiny little bit of e6000 like the tiniest otherwise you'll have it seeping between the seams of the wood I was in a hurry to get this done otherwise you could just as easily use wood glue but I just went with e6000 because that's what I had handy you'll see in my first one I had way too much excess but then as I went along I used less glue and then you just want to secure the three pieces together we're making three ornaments here and then while that glue was drying I painted three little wooden cutout snowflakes with white acrylic craft paint this is a set of unfinished wood snowflakes that I got from Hobby Lobby a while ago and I just took plain whatever white paint you have in your craft stash does not matter one inch flat paintbrush I worked in a circular motion to get in all the nooks and crannies and parchment paper a little scrap of parchment paper to keep your project from sticking as it dries and then while I waited for that white paint to dry I went ahead and stained my little Jenga piece ornaments so this is gel stains in the color oak any wood stain you like or paint it a solid color red green get festive um I wanted to have a little bit more of a natural look for this so that's why I went with the stain but you're going to stay in the front the back and all four sides the nice thing about laying down parchment paper is you can stay in the front in the back lay the back down on the parchment paper and it doesn't mess with the stain at all and then I went in with a little bit of acrylic just silver this I think this was like decorate extreme sheen but any silver paint or silver rub and buff I just don't have silver rub and buff for whatever reason and I just kind of distressed the edges of each of those snowflakes and then a little bit in the center this was like a quarter inch paintbrush a super tiny brush just the tiniest little bit of silver there and you'll see at some points I was mixing the silver with the leftover white paint on my piece of parchment there and then I also distressed the edges of the Jenga ornaments so I kind of scraped my brush along the front edge as well as along the border so the whole the four edges are going to be kind of dry brushed and then on the front surface just around the very edge you're going to have a little bit of paint as well and no two ornaments need to be alike so feel free to change it up and do more or less here and there in different spots then it's time to put everything together so a tiny little bit of hot glue on the back of each snowflake and secure that right to the front of your little ornament and then finally I took this baker's twine it's white with a little bit of silver in it cut eight inches of it and then run each end through one screw eye and double knot it so you do one side make sure you do a double knot otherwise this will come undone so do one side and then tie the other side and you're in business so here are my three little finished dollar store tumbling tower Christmas ornaments I've made several of these in various styles in past years so I'll try to link to some of those in the video description below this has got to be the quickest and easiest ornament I've made in a while so I have a bunch of these clear globe plastic ornaments I think I got them at Michael's I got a big tube of them so probably at least 20 so I just popped and these had um a red and white baker's twine hanger which is kind of cute so we're going to play off that red here but I just took a scrap of paper and I rolled it into a little funnel and then I went into the bathroom and this is the Epsom salt that we use in our bath so it's a giant jar I just poured a little bit of that Epsom salt through the funnel and into my little ornament there so we have snow in our Christmas ornament and then I just went into my craft stash I had this random bag of pine cones that had never even been opened so I tried to find the smallest ones that I could pop in there and then I also had these little sprigs of berries but they were too big to fit through the top of the ornament so at first I cut off that holly leaf there I think little mini boxwood leaves would be great or a sprig of pine would be super cute as well but I worked with what I had and I had these berries on hand so I just tossed in that holly leaf and then I trimmed the berries so I just only used the top little half section there otherwise there's no way it would fit into the ornament and it would have just been too big the scale would have been off so give that a shake until everything's laying like the way you want it and then you just pop that ornament top right back on and you're in business I am no stranger to these super awesome dollar tree faux tin tile pieces I've crafted crafted with them a ton I just peel off that adhesive backing and I feel like I always get a question in the comment section why do you remove the adhesive backing well it's only secured around the four edges of that square so once you start cutting the tile piece into different shapes the backing is going to fall off anyway so I just took two of my four inch wood round ornament pieces I ordered them in bulk on Amazon and I traced them onto the back of the tin tile piece using a sharpie and then I just used my craft scissors to cut on the inside of that sharpie line you don't want to take too much off because you don't want your cut tin tile piece to be smaller than the wood round and you can always dry fit it in place and if it's a little too big you can trim it a little bit more before you glue it down no problem and then from here I painted my little tin tile pieces red so I only did one coat but this is bokeh art matte paint in the color cardinal red I also did a little stippling motion around the edge of the ornament and you could paint the back of the ornament too if you like but from there then I painted the front surface of the cut tin tile and you I used kind of a stippling motion I really love these one inch flat paint brushes and I gave it a pretty generous coat of paint because I ended up only doing one coat because I didn't really care if some of the silver showed through and then I used my trusty pen blade again there to recreate that hole in the tin tile piece if you have a hole punch or something feel free I'm just not quite that sophisticated and then I wanted to distress my little tile ornaments so I used way too much paint here this is just plain white acrylic cheap craft paint on a piece of a scrap dish sponge just a clean dish sponge you want to cut a tiny piece and pounce off any excess paint and then brush it just over the raised edges and the ridges on the design of that tin tile piece and use very light pressure so you don't end up painting the background of the tin tile piece as well and then I grabbed some twine this is regular twine with a little piece of gold floss running through it I cut it down to 12 inches in length and then I folded it in half and used painter's tape to tape the two ends of the twine and I cut it at an angle this way your twine won't fray when going through that tiny little hole in the top of that ornament and here I actually had to like make the little hole in the tile piece bigger and then try to run it through my issue here was I cut that piece of tape way too small it should have been bigger and cut it like a finer angle so I kind of hit up an angle up through but we made it and then secure everything with just a simple square knot you'll see here as I do my second one I did a bigger piece of tape so it went through like like butter and then I embellished with a faux greenery sprig and a bow so I made a little figure eight with this super skinny Christmas ribbon here kind of pinch it and angle it and then you just hot glue each of the loops of that figure eight into place I use a fine point hot glue gun on teeny tiny projects like this so you can just do the teeny tiniest dab of hot glue and that makes your figure eight and then you're going to cut a real small piece of ribbon you're going to hot glue one end on the back of the bow and then you're going to wrap it all the way around the front and then back to the back again and just as you wrap it around that center piece make sure that the bow ears and the tail ends are hanging at the right angle and then secure the end of that middle ribbon piece again with hot glue on the back of the bow and that's my cheater method for making a teeny tiny bow and then cut the ends at a 45 degree angle and then I just hot glued this little faux greenery sprig and then that spot where the sprig ends the stem ends you're going to cover that with your little bow and here are a couple of cute little faux tin tile Christmas ornaments and I have to admit this is the first time I've painted a tin tile any color other than white or green so look at me branching out and being colorful I'm really proud of myself right now all right and here are all 12 of my finished Christmas ornament crafts all in one spot thanks for sticking through to the end of this video I do hope you enjoyed watching these crafts come together until next time happy making!