How to Make Holiday Ornaments with Perfect Paints
Hi all! Hope everyone had a great holiday weekend.
When the holidays hit my mind goes into overdrive which can put a damper on your creativity. Or at least for me it does. Too many ideas and then I can't seem to get anything done. But I'm here to tell you...DON'T PANIC! Every project does not have to be super detailed and take hours to make. I was struggling this week, but I pulled out my papers and paint and within in 30 minutes I knew what I wanted to make. Minus the drying time this project only took me about 30 minutes to make!
I gathered all my products together and coordinated the Perfect Paints I wanted to use and let everything flow.
Materials used:
Canvas Heart
49 & Market Vintage Artistry Naturalist Bookplate
49 & Market Serenity Calming Paper
49 & Market Serenity Ephemera Bits
Pop Dots
Misc Gold ribbon
Recollection Flowers
Perfect Paints Polishing Plaster Gilded Azure and Organic Sugar
Perfect Paints Shimmering Acrylic Beehive
Liquitex Free Style knife
Step by Step:
I started off with the canvas heart as my template. I just penciled around the heart onto the Artistry Naturalist bookplate and then cut it out inside the marks using the outline as my guide. Taking the edge of my scissors I then roughed up the edges.
Now take the outline from the bookplate and do the same using the Serenity Calming Paper. Take your scissors and rough up the edges again.
3. I then took the Polishing Plaster and added it randomly to the canvas heart and the first heart. This step I let dry overnight but if you don't want to wait just set this aside to dry while you gather all the other items.
4. Once everything was dry, I glued the hearts together. Now it is time to layer. If you like to sew then this would be a great time to sew the middle heart down but I decided to just use a journaling pen.
5. Using Perfect Paints Shimmering Matte Beehive add some shading to the paper flower. Using glue dots adhere the journaling blocks from the Ephemera bits kit. Finish up the ornament with a coordinating ribbon.
These would be so pretty all over the tree!! And with the shimmer of the paint and the lights....simply beautiful! I hope you will give this a try and share with us your finished product!
Until next time....happy crafting.
Becky
