Holiday Photo Ornament with Craft Metal

Dazzling Diva Challenge #36.  Have you enjoyed the Christmas in July Edition of the Dazzling Diva Challenge? Have you been inspired by amazing Christmas Card ideas?  How about if we take it up a notch and teach you how to make Christmas Ornaments?  Join us today as the Dazzling Diva Design Team teaches you how to create beautiful keepsake ornaments using Add a Little Dazzle Craft Metal Sheets.  Get ready to be blown away by the beautiful Christmas ornaments. 

Card Making comes easily to me – Creating 3D items…not so much!  This week’s Challenge at Add A Little Dazzle was to create an Ornament using Dark Chocolate Craft Metal and Brushed Bronze Craft Metal.  I LOVE both of those colors.  In fact, they’re my faves!  But…I couldn’t find my mojo!  Finally, I found these photos from a family trip to Italy a few years ago and knew I needed to fit all of them on an Ornament.  Hope you like it. 🙂

I used SU!’s Circle Collection Framelits to cut 12 Circles in 3 graduating sizes – 3 Dark Chocolate Craft Metal, 3 Brushed Bronze Metal, 3 Cardboard, and 6 from a Sticker Sheet.

I used 3 different Embossing Folders on the metal circles – SU! Stylish Stripes, Beautifully Baroque and Triangles.

I adhered the Sticker Sheets to  one side of the cardboard circles and ran a ribbon down the center of them.

I then adhered the Craft Metal Circles on top of the Sticker Sheets alternating colors.  To create the “loop” for the top, just fold down a piece of the ribbon and trapped it between the metal and cardboard.  The bottom loop was created in the same way.

The photographs were cut with the Circle Collection Framelits using smaller circles than the ornament circles and then they were adhered to the metal using Sticky Strip or Score Tape.

Bows were adhered to the tops of both sides of the ornaments using Glue Dots. (The Ornament is double-sided.

Small leaves were cut from both Dark Chocolate Craft Metal and Brushed Bronze Craft Metal using Framelits.  They were adhered randomly to all of the ornaments.

A small bauble was attached to the bottom of the ribbon loop.

Ready to Begin Creating Handmade Ornaments?

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Dazzling Divas Design Challenge – #36 – Ornament or Anything Goes (Inspiration Photo Below)