Helmar Creative Team

Christmas Ornaments

 Hello everyone. For my Christmas themed post today, I am demonstrating  how to make ornaments. I made these ornaments and then let them dry, two of my grand kids (boys) love doing "crafting time" at Grandma's house. So I thought, lets make a present for Daddy and they were all for it (kids like giving presents too!).

Here is what you will need:

Blender

scrap paper

water

mold of your choice

paints, any c0lors you choose

Helmar Decoupage and craft paste

pins

wire

Helmar Super-Tac Glue

paint brushes

2 children (optional LOL)

 
OK, lets get started.
First, tear up junk mail or any kind of paper you choose, put into blender with water and blend away. It pull turn into a soupy mess (paper pulp), pour into a bowl. Get your mold and grab a handful of pulp, squeeze it out and put into mold now let it dry completely. 

When dry, remove from mold and grab two kids from anywhere......well, not from anywhere maybe some you know the parents of. I then let them choose the color paints they wanted and paintbrushes and then just let them have at it.

He obviously wanted to paint himself too...

 

Concentrating.....

I found Popeye's brother LOL

Now let them dry. I then added their names and date to the bottom. At this time, daddy came to pick them up so I told them I would have them ready for when they came over next so we can wrap them.

BUT......I coated them with a coat of Helmar Decoupage and Craft Paste first!

 Then waited for them to dry. 

When dry, take a pin of some kind and glue it into the ornament (you have to add glue because remember, it is made from paper pulp).

I then took wire (I used some of my jewelry making wire) and wrapped it around the pin a few times and made a look at the top like an ornament hook.

Here is a look at the type of ornaments my (soap) mold made....

They are shaped like presents. And.....we are done!

My grandkids were so proud of their Christmas present for their daddy and I too think they did an awesome job.

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day

 

Glues used:

 

FAUX SILK TECHNIQUE WITH HELMAR

Hello dear friends, Martha Lucia here to share with you a fun technique called Faux Silk. For this technique you will need the Helmar Craft & Hobby PVA Glue and tissue paper. This is very simple technique that you can use to improve your stamping designs and create a beautiful touches on your scrapbook projects and cards. This is my card:

 

Creating this card is very easy, so let me show you how: Cut a piece of white tissue paper a little bigger of the piece that you will use of card stock.

 Stamp over the tissue paper the images that you want to use. I am using one holly leaves from the stamps set Happy Holly Days from Hero Arts using Garden Green Classic Ink.

 With a marker enhance some details of the images and distress the entire piece with your hands. Then smooth the paper again keeping some of the wrinkles.

 Take a piece of Very Vanilla card stock and add some spots of Helmar Craft & Hobby PVA Glue. Smear the glue with your fingers and let the glue dry a little before moving on to the next step.

 Paste the tissue paper keeping some distress lines and leaving a free borders.

 Turn over the paper and paste the borders using Helmar Runner Adhesive.

 Stamp a sentiment a decorate with a loops of baker's twine.

 Paste over the decorated layer using Zapdots.

 Paste the decorated layer over a base using Helmar Runner Adhesive and then over the card base.

 This technique is very simple and creates a great effect over the card stock all depends how wrinkle is the tissue paper.

 

Thank you for stopping by and see you soon with more creativity to share.

Martha Lucia