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Faux Glass Christmas Ornament

By: Jennifer Willis
Off-Road Inksters
Beginning Scramping Team Designer

Supply List: 

Christmas Ornament Stamp (Serendipity Rubber Stamps)
Versafine Black Ink (Tsukineko)
Pearl Ex-Press Watercolor Palette (US Artquest)
UTEE (Suze Weinberg)
Christmas Themed Printed Paper (Daisy D's)
White Card Stock (Paper Goods)
Chip Board (Found Object)
Clear Microbeads (Pennywise)
Red Flower Shaped Pearls (Darice)
1/4" Wide Velvet Ribbon (Offray)
1" Wide Double Sided Adhesive (O'so Sticky Tape)
Craft Adhesive (Amazing Goop)
Metal Lid (Pillsbury)
Vintage Earring (Found Object)
Metal Bird (Found Object)
18k Gold Spray Paint (Rust-oleum)
Photo
Waterbrush (Stampin Up)
Corner Rounder (Stampin Up)
Melting Pot (Suze Weinberg)
Scissors (EK Success)
Crop-a-Dile (WE R Memory Keepers)
Computer (Emachine)
Printer (HP)
Photo Editing Software (Fastone)
Newspapers

Instructions:
 

1.  Punch a hole close to the rim of the lid with the Crop-a-Dile. In a well ventilated area, lay the lid on newspaper and spray paint both sides with a nice even coat of 18k gold paint and allow to dry.
 

2.  Heat the melting pot on the UTEE setting with lid on. Once it has fully heated, add clear UTEE and replace the lid.
 

3.  Attach the earring to the lid in the hole that was punched earlier. Cut a circle from the printed paper and adhere to the inside of the lid with double sided tape. Print photo on white card stock, neatly trim out and round corners. Attach to the background paper with double sided tape. Add flower shaped pearls, adhering with the double sided tape.
 

4.  Once the UTEE is ready, slowly pour into the lid coating the contents evenly. While still warm, drop a few pinches of the clear microbeads into the UTEE randomly to create the air pocket appearance of vintage glass. On the outside bottom of the lid adhere a pearl flower.
 

5.  Stamp the ornament image, three times, onto the white card stock. Color the images with the watercolor palette. Take a piece of the double sided tape and cover the image front entirely. On the back of one stamped image, attach a thin piece of chip board. Neatly trim all three images, cutting just above the ornament hanger, remove the tape liner and coat the front of the images with clear microbeads.
 

6.  Lay the image with the chipboard backing down, bead side up and dab several small drops of craft adhesive just slightly away from the edges around the middle of the image, leave the hanger and tassel areas free and clear of any adhesive. Slightly bend the two remaining images in half and tack together with double sided tape along one side to create a single piece. Press the open edge of the combined images into the craft adhesive and hold together until the glue has set.
 

7.  Once the craft adhesive has dried, bend the tops of the images back about 1/8" this will conceal the hanger part of the image and overlap each as you go. The beads in this area can be scratched off and a small dab of adhesive can be used to tack the areas down.
 

8.  Attach the top of the stamped ornament to the flower (that was adhered to the bottom of the lid) with craft adhesive and allow to dry. Attach the bird and additional embellishments to the front of the ornament with the craft adhesive and also allow to dry.
 

9.  Once the stamped image has dried, edge with gold paint and string ribbon through the hanger of the finished ornament.

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