While I love making ornaments, I'm really not that great with coming up with my own designs. The only thing I came up with this year was a die cut/embellishment cluster on a glittered glass ball (again, in this post), so I went off on Pinterest (of course!) to find something that used ribbon in a creative way and could also be adapted to work with paper. What I found was this post on CeeCee's Creations with a wonderfully simple and elegant design that I instantly fell in love with.
My ornaments look much like CeeCee's, except my ribbon was 1.5" wide (hers was 1.25"), so the 2" length that she used was a bit short for these. Instead, I cut lengths of ribbon to 2.5" (May Arts' wire-edged ribbon is perfect for this!) and then cut several paper bits to 1.5" by 2.5" to match. With all of that cut, these took only a matter of minutes to assemble- just thread layers on a head pin (from the beading section at Michaels) and alternate pearls between the layers. Use needle-nose pliers to bend the pin's end to accommodate an ornament hook, tie a bow, and you're done!
I think they look like big, dangly Christmas earrings!
Be sure to hop over to the Lawn Fawn blog today to check out what the other girls have come up with for this product swap!
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