Hello friends! Here’s the gift I made this year for our church ladies. Yes! I’m posting it the same year in which I made them! That’s progress, eh? 🙂 This simple little ornament turned out better than I’d hoped, which was a blessing. I’ve come to expect things to go wrong when I try to make something! There were few snags, but nothing major. This is yet another idea I found on Pinterest, and, yet another idea that wasn’t explained very well for amateur crafters like myself. I wanted to share the idea in more detail than the original post.

I’ll go through and explain the project with photos. If you so desire, you can click the green button at the bottom of this post and choose to print all or part of this post, pictures or no pictures, whatever you like! It’s great!

Let’s get started!

First, gather your supplies:

• Newspaper and wax paper
• A cereal box or oatmeal box, called “gray-board”.
• Glue – I used both Elmer’s school glue and clear Tacky glue
• Sponge brushes
• Puzzle that has 1,000 pieces (this is important because I wanted the smaller puzzle pieces that come in that size puzzle).
• Acrylic Gesso paint. I’d never heard of it, but it can be purchased in the canvas painting section of the store.
• Iridescent glitter
• Scissors
• Ribbon