Over at Little Birdie Secrets, we’re all about handmade! In fact, this year I’m making all of my Christmas tree ornaments. Okay, I know it’s a little crazy, but all my real ornaments are in storage for a year, so I’m challenging myself to make inexpensive handmade christmas ornaments. Which makes this a perfect addition to Jamielyn’s Crazy Christmas Crafter’s series!
Sheet Music Ball Ornament Tutorial
{ Sheet Music Craft }
Supplies:
*Sheet music, about 1 page
*Mod Podge
*Brush (a foam brush or wide artist’s paint brush)
*Jingle bell
*Glitter paint (optional)
*”Noel” printed tag & hole punch
1. Start by tearing your sheet music into strips of different lengths and widths. If you don’t have real sheet music, purchase a downloadable file of Christmas music (I found some on Etsy).
2. Paint the back of sheet music with Mod Podge and stick to glass ball, alternating direction of strips.
3. Use paint brush and Mod Podge on top of strips to seal edges. You may need to press down and create folds on some parts of strips to make them flat around ball. I used my fingers to do this. Continue until entire glass ball is covered with sheet music.
Thanks for having me, Jamielyn! And thanks to everyone for reading! Come see me at Little Birdie Secrets for more of my handmade ornaments later this month!
Jamielyn Nye is the founder and managing editor of iheartnaptime.net. She is married to her best friend and together they have two beautiful children just under two years apart. Her days are filled with lots of snuggles, crafts, e-mails, avoiding the ever-growing pile of laundry, play dough, sneaking bites of chocolate and wondering, “Is it nap time yet?!” I Heart Nap Time is a creative site sharing DIY home projects on a budget, crafts, sewing tutorials, easy recipes, tips and techniques.
Amanda
I love this! My sister plays the piano and is building a new house. I think I will make a set of 12 for her for Christmas!
Karen Weight
This is so pretty and looks easy to make! I love the old sheet music look. Thanks so much for sharing!!
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RaeLyn
LOVE, LOVE this! Thank you, I was just trying to figure out a musical-themed ornament for some gifts. This is perfect!
Cafe @ Christmas All Year 365
That is so pretty!
I featured it on my blog!! (http://christmasallyear365.blogspot.com/2011/11/sheet-music-ball-ornament-tutorial-by-i.html)
Donna C
Very cute and inexpensive too!
Stephanie Tarver
These are lovely. Very easy to make something so pretty.
Stephanie
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Macy Lynn
We are doing all homemade decorations for everything in our temporary home this year. Our things are in storage as well! This is such a great idea. So many of these items we’re making I’m gonna want to keep now. My original plan was to make it all disposable but it’s changing now. Thank you!!
NaDell
I thought I’d make this with pretty vellum, but it doesn’t seem to work. It does work great with regular plain paper though. I already printed out several songs on vellum, so it’s soaking in warm water now to see if softening it will make it stick better. We’ll see….
NaDell
Update: Soaking the vellum on a cookie sheet with warm water softened it enough to work on the ornaments. I’m so excited!
Brooke
Find out how we used these adorable ornaments…http://www.justforthefamily.com/7/post/2011/11/chrismas-advent.html
Caitlin @ Hardly Housewives
Just made something similar to this yesterday – http://www.hardlyhousewives.com/2011/12/o-come-all-ye-faithful.html
I love the sparkly “cap” on the ornament and the Noel tag! Nice work!