Mini Felt Ornaments

Hello!! Please join me in welcoming another Monday!! :)

I decided to mix things up today and NOT make a card!! I love making cards but I'm starting to run low on unique Christmas designs. So, I decided to make a few Christmas ornaments instead. Felt seems to be a very popular medium right now and I just so happened to have some kicking around. I used a few different die sets to create my ornaments.

First off, of course, I had to use the Stitched Hearts Die from Waffle Flower Crafts. This is perfect because it already has the holes cut for you. I ran the largest heart, twice, using Red Felt through my BigShot. Now I don't have any nested heart dies to I just aligned the holes of the two pieces and cut the heart shape around them.

I used white embroidery floss to stitch and ripped up cotton balls for stuffing. After I stuffed the heart I stitched in a piece of white ribbon for the holder.

So, this one was really straight forward because these dies were made to be stitched. I wanted to see if I could create ornaments from dies that weren't made for this purpose. And what set would be perfect for this?? Why, the Retro Ornaments Elle-ments from Avery Elle, of course!! It already has three dies in the shape of ornaments as well as little elements to add to them. For these I used Green Felt, Peach Felt and Red Felt. I die cut the smaller, decorative pieces using these same colors as well as an Ivory Felt.

Seeing how these already had a hole at the top, I could just thread some twine through to make the loop. Now why stop there??!! Lastly, I used a rectangle die from the Lacey Layers 2 die set and some Grey Felt. After stitching, stuffing and adding the ribbon, I used the Woodland Basics Die Set from WPlus9 and cut out a bird, leaves, branches and holly to decorate. This set worked perfectly!!!