Crafty Ornaments for your X-MAS Tree Swap Gallery

[Star217]

Those are wonderful paperdaisies, so different and yet they all work together.

[diannab]

YAY! April (VAMOUNTAIN FAMILY) rec'd on the 29th!  Unfortunately I had to send a lil late. Gotta love the emergencies that having kids throws your way. Hopefully she will get time to post some pics as I didn't take any cause my camera was on the fritz I hope you like them all April! Merry Christmas!

[sparklypants]

PAPERDAISIES-

awesome first swap!  i love the way you packaged everything, and im jealous of your felt skills.

[diannab]

  OMG OMG OMG OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I rec'd from VamountainFamily! (I hope y'all are feeling better and let me know when you open yours! ) But I must tell you I have already started a thank you package! Your stuff is great! You are quite the artist April! I love love love love love love love all of them! I took pics of the girls with the ornaments... my camera is dying (darn batts) again! LOL But I was gonna post a few pics of the girls with the ornaments. April, do you have a group shot? If so please post, I couldn't do them justice!

So first up.......... ::Drumroll:
UGA ORNAMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Secondly......... Tylers ornament... don't have a good pic of it but its darn cute!

Next............ Kammies Ornament
(modeled by Kammie herself!) lol


Next.............. Zoe's ornament
(modeled by Zoe herself!) Lol


Next A PICKLE!!!! SHE IS PSYCHIC I SWEAR!!!! I was just thinking must get one...........





And made Justin and I an ornament! (the heart fell off during shipping, but that is an easy peasy fix)


A SPOON ornament! Did you shape this spoon yourself? Beautiful beads I need to get a close up!And........ she made grumpy a bone!



And A heart box with music notes decod (perfect cause we are very musical!) full of smaller ornaments with each family members name and the year on one of them!!!!!!!! And a gingerbread man! And a kit for kids to make more ornaments AND the cards are beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Did I leave anything out April? I am so sorry if I did! Let me know! It is all gorgeous absolutely stunning I tell you!




Thanks April It was fab!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Open mine so you can tell me else to send lol I hope you like it. I made mine out of unusual choices..... well except the bakers dough lmao

[groschveux]

Alteredmommy, you did a fabulous job with your ornaments. They're gorgeous! I want some of those paper balls...they look way too cool.

Paperdaisies, what an amazing package you made for your first swap! A card, gift tags and boxes...that's so very generous of you.

VamountainFamily, great wooden ornaments! And the pickle made me laugh, very original.

I received my ornaments from ShowLola. She made little gnomes inspired from my wists. They're adorable! She also made some mushrooms and a cute little Hazel ornament, so thoughtful. They're all made out off polymer clay. I love them!

These are the ones I sent her.

Thank You Very Much ShowLola!!!

[shooting star]

gnomes!    adorable

[ShowLola]

Thank you for posting your super awesome ornaments for me groschveux!  I especially love the little sheep who looks so adorable on my tiny tree.  Thanks for being such a great swap partner and organizing this very fun swap.

[VaMountainFamily]

Sorry I haven't been around! 

So glad everything (or mostly everything) arrived safely, Dianne! I had SOOO much fun working on them! LOL, glad you like the pickle.  I made one for my sister for her bday, and then I discovered the whole Xmas Pickle story, so I've been making them for pressies this year.  And I did shape the spoon. It was pretty easy with some pliers. (I kept trying to think of an ornament to go with "spoon bread" since the hotel where the recipe is from is where DH works... finally, I just said "What the hey, I'll just use a spoon! LOL).

I have your box sitting on the kitchen table, and I'm just about to go dig into it. You have NOOOO idea how hard it's been not to open it, but I wanted to wait to be fair. I'm sure I'll love everything! 

Do you have a picture of the gingerbread man?  (I totally forgot to take pictures... until I had wrapped them all  ). That was a last minute thing, and I want to make more!

(BTW, I hope things are going a bit better for you ((HUGS))! )

[VaMountainFamily]

THANK YOU DIANNA! So much craftiness stuffed in one box!

Cute little mini-pressies:


Bright tropical flowers:


Cute little Santa and sleighs, love the details:


Reindeer scrunchie (Makes me wish I had long hair LOL, I'll put it on a tree branch, though):


Coca-cola ornaments (What did you use to cut these?):


Ornaments made from the timeless salt and flour dough (I LOVE the mushroom, and the blue/red swirly one!):


Some empty candy wrappers (okay, okay, they weren't empty when I got them  )


And my favorite, favorite, favoritiest of all... beaded snowmen (I would love you forever if you tell me how you did these!)


THANK YOU ONCE AGAIN!!! I love them all!!! 

[diannab]

I am glad you like them! lol one thing though---- the flowers were made into fairies hence the chenille stems with the buttons on them lol I tried... what can I say? lol The microbeads were such a PIA! LOL I took a plain papermache ornament and decoupaged the snowman on. Then you either use two sided tape (which I did cause it tends to stick better) and then you take microbeads which you can buy anywhere but pennywisearts.com sales them cheap in bulk . Make sure all spots are covered by the beads (that is the PIA) lol oh and the clean up is a PIA if you're not careful LMAO I love the bakers dough heheh we have a million of em here! I saw the mushroom and I thought of you. I did the red/blue trying to simulate tye dye lol trying...... hehehehe and I did the foot because I thought of you walking barefoot with a baby in tow that had a tyedye onsie and bib lmao I am really glad you like everything!