Day ten already! We have already shared so much inspiration with you during our annual 12 Days of Holiday Giving, but it’s not over yet! Design team member Mindy Eggen is here today to show us how easy it is to create a handmade ornament keepsake—perfect for last-minute gifting! Don’t miss out on our giveaways today at the end of the post—we know you’ll want to re-create Mindy’s project and our giveaways today may help with that!
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Welcome, everyone! It’s Mindy Eggen here with you today to share a fun handmade ornament. I love creating handmade ornaments—not only can you personalize them, but they hold such sentimental value.
I’m going for more of a non-traditional ornament. Instead of glass/plastic bulbs, my ornament is created from cardstock. I’m using one of my favorite products from the Honey Bee Stamps release, the Farmhouse Tree Builder Stamp and die set. I fell in love with this tree the minute I saw it. It has two layers to it so the base layer is stamped in a light color and the second layer in a slightly darker color. This easily creates a dimensional look to the tree.
Tip: If you are creating this for someone, you could stamp the tree in their favorite colors. I think a pink tree would be absolutely precious!
There is a third layer, which is totally optional, where you can add twinkles to your tree. I heat embossed mine in gold embossing powder from Hero Arts.
The Farmhouse Tree Builder stamp set has many stamps to decorate your tree with ornaments, but I loved the simplistic look and opted to add just a die cut word. The Joy Honey Cut was a perfect fit!
I wanted more sparkle to my tree, so I die cut the Joy Honeycut from Gina K Designs Glitter limited edition cardstock. This cardstock is very sparkly, but with a super smooth finish. To separate the word from the tree, I diecut a shadow layer from vellum, which adds a softness to all the sparkle.
To turn this tree into an ornament, I die cut the tree out using the coordinating die and also die cut four more layers from white cardstock. I wanted to hide the ribbon that I’ll use to hang the ornament, so I attached a several layers together using Scrapbook Adhesives Tape Runner. Then I taped the ribbon down to the back of my tree and added 2 more layers of the tree die cut. In summary, I sandwiched the ribbon between the layers of trees.
This beautiful handmade ornament can hold a special message on the back. These are the types of ornaments that will tell a story for years to come!
I hope you enjoyed today’s inspiration! You can find more from me on my blog, Pinterest, Instagram, and YouTube channel!
Mindy
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Mindy’s gorgeous handmade ornament was created using the beautiful Farmhouse Tree Builder stamp and die from Honey Bee Stamps, and our friends have generously offered a $50 gift certificate to purchase this set, or any other you may have your eye on in their shop!
In addition to this wonderful prize, our newest partner, Keep it Simple Paper Crafts, wanted to share the love, too! Inspired by femininity, fashion, and girl power with a vintage twist, Clementine collection from Keep It Simple is sure to inspire. The gorgeous florals, and rich bold colors are perfect for documenting your memories. Keep It Simple would like to send one lucky winner the entire Clementine collection!
GIVEAWAY DETAILS:
To enter to win both of today’s prizes, leave a comment on this post below by December 22nd at noon EST. A winner will be selected at random and announced here on the blog on December 23rd!
We’d love for you to check out both of today’s wonderful partners and follow them at the links below for fresh inspiration and ideas!!
Honey Bee Stamps : Shop | Blog | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube
Keep it Simple Paper Crafts: Shop | Blog | Instagram | Facebook
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Just joining us? Be sure to click each day below!
Day One – Giveaway from Doodlebug Designs & Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L
Day Two – Giveaway from Photo Play Paper and Pink & Main
Day Three – Giveaway from Hero Arts & SCT Magazine
Day Four – Giveaway from Bella Blvd & SCT Magazine
Day Five – Giveaway from Scrapbook.com & SCT Magazine
Day Six – Giveaway from Echo Park Paper & Therm O Web
Day Seven – Giveaway from Totally Tiffany & SCT Magazine
Day Eight – Giveaway from Simple Stories & Your Next Stamp
Day Nine – Giveaway from Lawn Fawn & Creative Memories
Another amazing giveaway. I love making tags, especially for Christmas.
Love the great ideas
Great ide! I enjoy making gift tags. Awesome giveaway!
Love the decorarion and I can see it working nicely as a gift tag too. Another great prize!
SO CUTE! I would totally use this as an embellishment on my SB page!
Who doesn’t want to spread some JOY at Christmas! great tags and awesome giveaway.
Fabulous inspiration…such a beautiful tag. Amazing giveaway!
Beautiful gift tag, would be beautiful on the Christmas tree! Amazing giveaway!
Some of my favorite ornaments are ones that I have stamped. So pretty! And the giveaway is wonderful too!!
Awesome giveaway…..I make tags and ornaments every Christmas and this Farmhouse Tree Builder design is inspiring! And I just love the Clementine collection!
What a cute tree ornament. Great idea to make as a gift they can use. Thanks for the chance to win
What a great idea for simple gift tags or ornaments! And that Clementine paper is awfully cute!
I am just getting into card making and some stamps and this paper kit would be a great help!
What a beautiful tree!
Love the ornament. Reminds me of the class giveaway I made for my son when he was in Kindergarten. My son decided to have no Christmas giveaway this year. I will keep this in mind since this is very easy to mass produce. I love Honey Bee products! Thank you for the giveaway!
What a great idea for the ornaments! They would be perfect for gift tags also!! What a cute paper collection. This would work well for my niece’s scrapbooks. Thanks for the chance to win both of these amazing prizes!!
I hadn’t heard of Keep it Simple, This contest is a nice way to introduce us to their products. What a beautiful colour palette. I’ve had my eye on Honey Bee Stamps for awhile. They have some really neat stamps & dies. Santa, please, please, please. I’ve been a really good girl this year! LOL!
Beautiful ornament! I love the colors of the Clementine kit too!
What a gorgeous ornament ! Love Honey Bee and Keep it Simple products. Thanks for the opportunity to win.
OMG, that ornament is so special and would be something to cut several of and decorate a wreath with. I am inspired to get busy. I love Honeybee products and appreciate the opportunity to win.
What a great idea! Cute ornament!
I love Honey Bee and I’m always looking for new ideas and products.
The Keep It Simple collection featured today is gorgeous. Mindy’s Christmas tree ornament is so cute. I know everyone in my family would love it with it’s sparkly surface.
The Clementine Collection is absolutely fun. I would have so much fun scrapping with this collection with my granddaughters.
This is just a precious set and such a generous gift. I love the JOY stamp. I could do so much with it !!! Thank you for the opportunity to win these gifts.
Love the Clementine collection!
I love the colors and the vintage feel of the Clementine collection!
Fabulous tree ornament! I’ll have to look and see if I can find a good
tree die! Love the Clementine Collection too!
This is a beautiful Christmas tag. I love the touch of gold on the word using for shadow a layer from vellum so the Christmas tree does not disappear. The Clémentine Collection is so beautiful it would be nice to make special cards for my 2 granddaughters.
Merci- Thank you
Yolande
What a wonderful giveaway today! I LOVE the tree ornament and gorgeous gold! Thanks for the chance!
Love it!!
Oh! Love the colors of that paper! That looks like a Must Have!
What a fantastic way to make an ornament! Thanks to Honey Bee Stamps for the giveaway. Love the retro girly paper from the Clementine Collection from Keep it Simple. It is oh so fun.
What a lovely ornament! I especially like the word die used for the title JOY.
This is a beautiful product line! The tree ornament is adorable!
What a wonderful giveaway! I love the new HoneyBee release!!
Two new crafting companies for me. Thanks for introducing these to me.
I LOVE the colors in the Keep It Simple collection ! I have so many projects I could use this for! Please Santa….
Beautiful tree ornament. Thank you for a wonderful prize.
Love the tree ornament. The gold just sets it off.
What a better way to spread some joy this season just awesome.
Gorgeous tree and how perfect for a set of ornaments! And the paper collection: oh my! Lovely! Another round of fabulous giveaways; thank you!
~carol
I need that tree! Love that it is in layers!
What a cute ornament Mindy! The Farmhouse stamps would be a great addition to someone’s collection. I am in love with the Clementine collection. Such great colors all mixed together
I’m loving the beautiful tree and it’s versatility. Beautiful new paper line, too.
Lovely scrapbook paper collection and gorgeous tag! Fabulous giveaway!! Thanks.
Beautiful ornament. Thank you for a wonderful prize package
Love the Honey Bee farm house tree and the Clementines collection! What an awesome giveaway!
Who doesn’t want more sparkle!?! Love this tree tag/ornament!! The Clementine paper collection is lovely & invokes so many creative ideas!
Cute little ornament. Awesome prizes again!
Beautiful collection. You can never have too many supplies :)
Awesome giveaway! Love the tag ????????
The ornament is so pretty and a wonderful keepsake. Love the big bold “Joy” sentiment and all it’s sparkle. The Clementine Collection of vintage paper is lovely.
Love this tree! Great ideas!
Such a pretty ornament. We love making ornaments every year. I am sure this one will be treasured. Such a darling collection. Perfect for layouts, cards and more. Thank you SCT and your wonderful sponsors for this opportunity!
OH!! That Paper!!!
Another great prize package. Honey Bee stamps are wonderful and I love all the simple Paper collections. The Clementine is one of my favorites.