How to Make Beautiful & Easy Homemade Christmas Ornaments

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Homemade Christmas ornaments can be fun and easy to make. These wooden DIY Christmas ornaments can be as unique and personal as you like. See how to make easy Christmas ornaments with just a few simple steps. #homemadeChristmasornaments #DIYChritmasornaments #handmadeChristmasornaments #woodenornaments #woodenChristmasornaments #Christmasornamentideas

Homemade Christmas ornaments always tend to feel better than store bought. But the idea of making your own Christmas ornaments shouldn’t leave you stressed or cost a fortune. That’s why these homemade Christmas ornaments are perfect! 

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Supply List for Homemade Christmas Ornaments

What You Will Need 

Tools 

Makes 3 homemade Christmas ornaments

  • 3 round wood slices  (you can find some online HERE)
  • Pencil
  • White craft paint (HERE)
  • Fine Paintbrush (HERE
  • Fine Tip Black Sharpie marker (HERE)
  • Decorative ribbon of your choice 1/8″ wide
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How to Make Homemade Ornaments for Christmas

This homemade Christmas ornaments post is part of an amazing holiday tour with some of my fellow bloggers. Make sure to check out all of their great projects, recipes, decorating ideas and more down at the bottom of the post!

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Instructions:

  1. Gather your few supplies to make these beautiful DIY ornaments. Of course, if you are feeling extra motivated you can go outside and find a nice thick birch branch. Chop down the branch, set up your saw and slice it up yourself. Or you can take the easier, slightly more sensible route and order these pre-cut and pre-drilled wood slices for making easy homemade Christmas ornaments online HERE. Once you decide which route you want to take to get your wood slices you will need to plan out the positioning of your lettering by tracing the outline of the wood slices onto a piece of paper. how to make diy Christmas ornaments, homemade Christmas ornaments, wooden ornaments
  2. Draw in the inner border for where the painted center will end. easy Christmas ornaments to make, handmade Christmas ornaments, DIY ornaments
  3. Using a lettering style of your choice, practice writing your phrases (such as “Merry and bright”, “Jingle Bells” and “Let it snow” onto the paper. Make any corrections until you are happy with the design. Set aside. This is where you can make your handmade Christmas ornaments as unique or personal as you’d like.handmade ornament ideas, homemade Christmas ornaments, homemade ornaments ideas
  4. Paint the surface of each wood slice with white paint, leaving a small border of unpainted wood on the outer edge. Let the paint dry and then repeat on the other side if desired. You can use craft paint like Deco Art, in the color Everlasting (HERE). Or for my fellow furniture painters, you can use your white chalk type paint, like Dixie Belles white in the color Cotton (HERE). DIY wooden Christmas ornaments, homemade Christmas ornaments, Christmas ornaments ideas
  5. Do this for all three of your DIY Christmas ornamentseasy to make Christmas ornaments, DIY Christmas ornaments, DIY ornaments
  6. With a pencil, copy the phrase from your practice sheet onto each wood slice. Make any corrections as needed until you are happy with the designs. It’s a good idea to use light pressure at first in case you need to erase and make adjustments. wooden Christmas ornaments, wooden tree decorations, simple Christmas tree decorations
  7. Next, carefully, trace over the pencil marks with your fine tip black marker. rustic Christmas ornaments, homemade Christmas ornaments, wooden ornaments ideas
  8. Go back and thicken all the “downstrokes” on the letters, leaving the “upstrokes” thinner. Christmas ornaments to make, DIY Christmas ornaments, wooden Christmas ornaments
  9. Let dry at least overnight before carefully erasing any pencil markings (stop immediately if the marker smudges at all). 
  10. Add a thin ribbon for hanging. cute Christmas ornaments, wooden ornaments, merry and bright, hand lettering


DIY Christmas Ornaments

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How cute and easy are these homemade wooden Christmas ornaments? They are so easy to make that it almost feels like cheating. 

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I hope you enjoy making these easy DIY Christmas ornaments. Go ahead and make some extras to give to friends and family. These are perfect little keepsakes that you can personalize however you’d like. 

Holiday Home Bloggers Tour

Now it’s time to see all the Christmas ideas from these talented home bloggers. Here’s the tour lineup for the week. Be sure to visit everyone for wonderful Christmas ideas for the whole house. The links for each topic are below the images.

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Monday – Christmas Mantel Ideas

 

 

Tuesday – Christmas Tablescape Ideas

 

 

Wednesday – Christmas DIY/Craft Project Ideas

 

 

Thursday – Christmas Tree Ideas

 

 

Friday – Christmas Recipes

 
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Homemade Christmas ornaments can be fun and easy to make. These wooden DIY Christmas ornaments can be as unique and personal as you like. See how to make easy Christmas ornaments with just a few simple steps. #homemadeChristmasornaments #DIYChritmasornaments #handmadeChristmasornaments #woodenornaments #woodenChristmasornaments #Christmasornamentideas

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25 Comments

  1. These are so fun and pretty. I love the script font you used and you made it seems so easy.

  2. These are so adorable! And you make it look so easy to make them. I like the fact that you used a pen for the script instead of a brush. So much easier! Thanks for joining the tour and sharing this cute tutorial.

  3. So cute and natural, Kandice! I’ve got a whole bunch of wood slices that were naked on the tree last year; this year they need words! Fun to be hopping with you again!

  4. Those are super cute! Your hand lettering is beautiful.

  5. These are so fun!! I wish I had your penmanship, you make it look so easy!

  6. Not only great ornaments…but cute for gift tags as well!
    Thanks for the inspiration.

    So happy to join you on this fantastic blog tour!

    Hugs, Lynn

  7. I love these! I am going to make some for our name tags on our stockings this year. Thanks for the inspiration!

  8. Sumru Ramsey says:

    Wonderful idea and the ornaments look just adorable. Reaaly inspiring!

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