Christmas Crafts

[OpenBook]

Hello All

Wondering if any of you have started your Christmas crafts yet?

IF you haven't when do you start?

IF you have, do you have a plan of what you want to make, or do you just make something when you see it, find a pattern or what ever.

I have started a bit, at least looking for projects to make as gifts for family and friends

OB

 

[Jenndiggy]

As for "Christmas" crafts, I don't make them. I don't like putting tons of time in something that is displayed for such a short time. (My grandma is like that too.)

I want to make grandma a cross stich about when she's in heaven being heaven's seamstress and mending angel britches when the little angels fall and tear their overalls. (Not theologicall correct, but its really cute!)

For my aunt, I have a cross stitch I want to make on a sweatshirt that is of cat eyes and a mouth so it looks like the whole sweatshirt is a cat.

Right now, though I need to get a pair of baby booties knitted for some friends who are expecting next month.

 

[OpenBook]

kewl Cross Stich Projects.
The cat shirt one, do you use waste canvis?
I agree with you about Christmas crafts...
I try to make things that people can use/display for more that the Christmas season, for gifts.

But this year I am trying to also great candle holders and centerpieces that I can use to decorate around the home.

 

[Jenndiggy]

Yeah, I'll have to use waste canvas. Last winter was so crazy I never did pick up a sweatshirt before they went out of the stores. But first I HAVE to finish these baby booties.

 

[lucypevensie]

Every year I make several ornaments, all the same kind. I keep one for myself, two others go t each of my children for their collections, and I give one or two for gifts. Last year's ornament was an old spoon in which i bent the handle all the way back til it formend a loop. Them I painted white snowman faces on the spoon and added fabric hats and scarves. I also put on some twisted wire arms with felt mittens. Those were my favorites!

 

[OpenBook]

I also like to do ornaments. In the past I have embelished round ornaments.

One year I did kinda a marbelized effect.
by spraying gold spray pain into a large cantainer, old milk jug, filled with water. The paint made a film on top of the water. Then quickly dipped the ornament into the water spray paint, and the spray paint stuck to the ornament with a marbelized pattern.

Lasts year I just glued super fine glitter to plastic bulbs, oraments.

THis year not sure what I am going to do yet!

 

[lucypevensie]

I like that marbleized ornament idea. So, you just sprayed the paint onto the water and dipped and that's it? Sounds easy! Would it work if you were to use 2 or more colors? Then did you decorate them further or did you leave them as they were?

 

[OpenBook]

They are easy, I ended up messy up the first couple, until I got it all figured out. Once the paint gets clumpy in the water, I used a toothpick to skim off the excess paint and started again. Also work in a vented room because the fumes from the paint gets strong. And have a place to hang the onaments to dry. I tied string to the back of two chairs and hung them there to dry.

Once you get going though you can get a lot done. That year they were the only ornaments on our tree. Besides lights and ribbon.

I am sure that you could any color or combo of colors. I went with gold and used different color bulbs.

OB

 

[Jenndiggy]

For two years I headed up a Christmas ornament exchange on another board (No, i am NOT volunteering to do so here! LOL!)

What we did is everyone picked a quick Christmas craft (someone did snowmen) and we made 13 of them. There were 12 in the group, and everyone sent their ornaments to me, and then I put one in each box and sent it back out to everyone. One lady dropped out, so we had 2 extra sets of 10 ornaments. We had already decided to surprise the owner of that board with a box of ornaments, and we decided to sent the extras to a lady who was fighting cancer.

We did this 2 years and it was a lot of fun. The first year I made angels out of plastic canvas and ribbon (somewhat similar to my cross but different than the pattern I'm looking for). The second year I made cats out of felt, and a candy cane was their tail. We had some really cute ideas.

 

[OpenBook]

I think that the Christmas ornament exchange would be a great idea, anyone else up for it?

OB

 

[lucypevensie]

I might be. I couldn't be in charge or anything though

 

[OpenBook]

no problem, lets see if more people would be interested and then decide if this is something we could do here

OB

 

[1hope]

I make Christmas Candle ornaments. I've started making "glow in the dark" candles as gifts for friends.

 

[Etharia]

I think that would be a lot of fun.

 

[pryncezzbuttercup]

Ooohh, I would be interested in an ornament exchange! Would the ornaments have to be home-made or store bought? Or would that even matter?

I wanna try the marbleized ornaments! Sounds easy. I tried making some ornaments last week that looked easy..but it was harder than I thought! (So far I only have 2..and they aren't finished yet. I bought the wrong paint! I was going to put gold swirls on them.)