As the holiday season begins, the onslaught of catalogs also begins. I was thumbing through a “Land of Nod” catalog and came across these cute ornaments.
The inspiration
It made me think about those cardboard coasters that I have lying around. So I set to work assembling Christmas-looking papers and accents. I dug into my button supply (I have thousands of buttons that I have inherited through the years from grandmothers and great aunts). Then I started assembling the ornaments. I used glue to set the papers to each side – one side at a time in order to trim the edges neatly around the coaster. And the embellishments followed. Here are the results:
Assembling the supplies
Painted wooden pieces
One of my 10 button drawers (the metallics)
Setting paper to the first side
First side cut out
Setting the second side
Both sides finished- ready for embellishments
The finished ornaments
Flirting with Creativity 