How to Make Crystalized Ornaments That Look Like Ice Crystals--A Craft That Is Cheap, Easy, and Fun!

thank you welcome to arts and accessories with GL my name is Gail my name is Luba we are creating a crystallized ornament today and these are absolutely beautiful it is kid friendly you can do this with children ages three and up and everything we are going to do is fill them with Saran Wrap so it's super super

cheap

and once we fill them you can see this one, you can leave it simple if you want, you can create a little bow or something like that and it could be a main ornament and you could just decorate your whole tree with these and let it snow and it's super

cheap

and super

easy

yeah and it's fun exactly it's all about fun we're going to take them from start to finish and decorate a tree with them we're also going to get into accessories later and maybe even get into in designer trees, including celebrity trees, which will be much later and a little more complicated, so we're going to start simple, we're going to remove the lid that you just pop out. some Saran wrap, but you only need a little at a time, especially for younger kids and adults, you may want to do this first and it doesn't matter if it's clean, you'll just take a little bit of this. size and we're going to take this and you're just going to take your finger take your finger and we're going to stop this and we're going to stop it with our finger down on the balls see how

easy

it is and you just want to take the skewer or the end of a pencil and an eraser and you're going to line it up against the side and the more you put it in, the easier and better it's going to

look

, so you're just going to keep adding more.

I already had an extra piece here, so I'm going to use this, so we'll just pad this out a little bit more, just goes to show that everything has a learning curve. Yes, even making videos of foreign things, it's really good. Okay, this is it. fun, especially if you do it as a family project with your girlfriend, as boyfriends with your other friends, we have some furry friends here who might join us later and we're going to keep filling it in now, the most important part is if you have any holes like this one at the top you really want to take your time and fill it out because

look

how this is a little bit more open right here.

I don't know if you can see it from the side a little better, that's where you want to fill it in more because otherwise it may not look exactly like you want and the more you fill it in, the more crystallized it will be and I'm going to pretend like I'm done, but I would go up to the bottom. the neck of the ball now while luba finishes stuffing her ornament. I'm going to move on to the bun. I think you get the right idea. When you fill the bulb with Saran Wrap, you want to fill it to the end. neck and then you can, you will replace it with the cap.

We'll show you how to create the loop. One thing I want to point out is that when you add the bow to your ornament, you want the ring on top. be facing forward like this, so that it looks the same way as the bow and the reason is because we are going to show you how you can hang it on your tree and it also hangs pretty, although yes, what you need is a ribbon, that is one of inches and a half wide, this is from Michael's, you can also use a wedding ribbon and it's gorgeous, it would be gorgeous for a winter wedding, oh yes, yes, it could really work for Christmas, it could work for a wedding, it could work too for a shower.

We've got this and we'll show you how to

make

that foreigner. We're going to start with the middle one and we're going to end with a lizard's tongue. We'll take it and this one is one inch. Yes, it's 10 inches, fold it in half and that's fine, that's our Rottweiler, by the way, keep it folded like this. This is the only one we're going to do this way and we're going to fold it into quarters, but we're going to fold it. like this and you want to join all the ends of the cable. I don't know if we said we were using wired tape and then we used scissors.

We're using Kitty scissors just to show that it can be done, but it's not going to be that way. Be pretty and let's cut it, it could be at a 45 degree angle. You know, the idea is to cut it at an angle from the middle end and I'm starting from the center where the wire is not and cutting. towards the cable and Luba shows it too and it's forming a 45 degree angle, who knows what's the easiest, yeah, okay, look at that pretty snake tongue, hey, there we go beautiful. Okay, now leave them open and let's create some kind of tint. so that we know that this is going to be the one that is going to hang down here and I am going to place it up here and we are going to work with the other two pieces now we are going to start with these two pieces the longest one is going to be the one at the bottom this one will to be on top we're going to take the bottom one turn it over so you don't see the pretty pattern and we're going to fold it in half and right now we're getting hit in the head by a Rottweiler, she's acting out, but she definitely wants attention.

I open it up and we're going to take both ends and we're going to fold them over the center and we're going to overlap a little bit, just a little bit, yeah, just a little bit, maybe I mean, if you want to be very particular about it, an eighth of an inch. at a quarter of an inch it might even be less, you can go right to the center. If you're doing this with kids and we want to line up the top and bottom so it's pretty even and you can't see what's at the bottom, it's okay if it's a little bit off, we'll do the same thing too.

Same thing with this piece so we can put things away so we can see how the ties come together as we work with it, we're going to fold it in half, open it up and then fold it. the sides only show symmetry. I just overlap them a little so you don't get too tense. It is error proof. If you made a pleat a little off center, it will still work in the end. Yes, you can use the ribbon like This is we have the Dollar Tree for events any time during the year and then we have the snowflakes for the winter.

This is more of a Christmas deal, yeah, yeah, and you know, but you can tell it could still be for a wedding and stuff, especially if that's. your favorite holiday of the year, so now we have these. I'm just putting this on top so you know that we're going to work on the bottom one first and then we'll put the smaller one on top of the larger one. and what we're going to do is we're going to use our glue gun and we're using a low temperature, however, you know, I recommend parents if they're doing this to do it, yeah, with younger kids and until they know they can handle it. . or

make

this part for them and then we're just going to fold this in, we take it out right there, we're just going to fold it at the top, so it's the easiest way to fold it, so we're going to put a little bit of glue right there and um, go ahead and press this down here, so yeah, line it up, yeah, two parts and then let's make sure the smaller one goes on top of the larger one like this, okay and just go down the center again. . top to bottom and I think we need to set this glue gun up a little bit better over the next glue stick, so we glue this on there with the top of our bow and now we're going to work on the bottom here, so we're going to take the one that looks like a tent and has a lizard tongue or a snake tongue and what we're going to do is you can play with the appearance.

I'm just crumpling it up a little bit and keeping it that way and what we're going to do is glue it on the back so it looks like this. I'm going to turn it over and I'm going to keep it here just move my hands that way make sure you don't get your hands there put a little bit of glue there go ahead and stick it on and you know you have to pick up the spider webs like I do now now continue Go ahead, I'm not singing all those spider webs, it's yeah, spiders do good to the world, so they're creepy, yeah, creepy, cool, okay, so we've got it right there and we'll keep it flat, this is cool yeah you want to send it somewhere if we have to travel and it takes about five minutes to make one, yeah, I mean, and you can use a marker like the end of a marker and round it off there and that goes a little bit faster than a finger, but we.

I'll show you without the marker, you know, or something round that you can stick in there to loosen it up, but we'll show you that in a minute. Okay, the last step is we're going to place this here in the In the middle now we don't have to worry if it's completely centered on the top and bottom because it's going to curl up behind it. What we do want to make sure is that it looks more in the center this way, so we have roughly equal parts, so again we're working with symmetry and making sure that both sides look the same, so I'm drawing a line down the center and we're going to place this in the center.

We're going to start with glue on the shorter tape and I'm going to do the top and bottom if you work slowly you just want to do one at a time and then we're just going to press it and find it, fold it over yeah let's go press it in and fold it over the back like this and then you can turn it over and you can see what your bow looks like and at this point if you want to fluff it up just to make sure you're happy with Again, you can use a thicker marker to round this out, but do it like this, yes, if you want to put something on the top and bottom to round it off, you can do it like this, you won't go wrong. this project no no it's really quick and easy and cheap and that's nice it's pretty and then you can adjust the wire and how you want it to look afterwards what can you do so the ornament lid doesn't come off Can you open this a bit, put a little bit of glue underneath and just tie it that way, you don't have to worry about this coming loose and work your design, place the big blob of glue on the bows, the cap and the part of a ball so you can glue this ball really like this and like that and then that's when you can line this up here now at this point we can unplug our glue gun and we're going to see how to hang it a tree and we're going to use this pipe cleaner right here, hold it in half like this, yeah, and it doesn't have to be perfect, this is just for hanging on the tree and it works great, oh yes you can hold it.

Put it in place so the arch is centered the way you want on the tree and we'll show you in a moment we'll show you what some of these look like on a tree even a couple of times yeah. We've got enough room here we might as well do that so now we go and you want it to be really tight against that ring it goes on really well and it hangs really easy yeah yeah just be careful with the ends of the wires for your little ones. Yeah, yeah, just be aware of those sharp ends that might come up, yeah, and I would keep it here because if you're going to use it over and over again, maybe you're doing it for a wedding amp.

Are you going to reuse them or maybe if you make them for a wedding you could give them as a souvenir or something of course something for someone to take home and you could even use a Cricut yes you can use a Cricut and create your own your own saying or something right here or whatever you want, personalize it, yeah, and that would be cool too. We're not going to do that in this video, so we have this and we're going to try them on the tree and see how they look. You should do that, okay, great, here we go, this is what the

ornaments

look like on the tree, look how fabulous they look, they are so bright and festive, you can have them grouped together, have them spread out, you can add other

ornaments

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