Mid-Century Themed Ornaments

 Retro Ornaments!!

How cute are these retro ornaments? I love Mid-Century Christmas images and Alpha Stamps never disappoints! 

I was lucky to get a miniature red-flocked tree from Wally World before they sold out and think the retro look goes pretty well with it! Also cleaned out 2 local Target stores for the retro-styled flocked deers, as well as the tiny ceramic deers they had. (Sorry Roswell peeps, I'm selfish that way!)

Here's the flip side of the ones in the top photo.

Both the Hello Christmas Kit and the December Kit were used for this project. The Wood Christmas Ornament Back is the perfect base for these quick and simple ornaments. There is not a whole lot of technique in making these, basically if you can cut, glue and use glitter, you're all set! Speaking of glitter, I relied a lot on Stickles, old-fashioned glitter picked up for about $3 (ok cheap clear glitter) but I really love the look of it. I used the cheap glitter on these two ornaments:

It's hard to see in the above photo but I used the clear glitter on the main image, as well as on the Snowflake Doily edges. The edges and top of each ornament is edged with Stickles Mercury Glass. It took about 3 coats to get it where I wanted it - the worse thing about Stickles is waiting for it to dry. If you layer it, it seems to go faster and hitting it with the heat gun helps as well. To make sure it's really dry make sure to let it dry overnight.

One thing I love about glitter - it can fix just about any mistake! The skiing snowman is accented with Stickles and Microbeads. Again with the Snowflake Doily I used the cheap glitter and extended it to the edges of the snowflake.

Equally hard to photograph is the Rock Candy Stickles that I used on the snowman. Really what it did was give it a bunch of texture. As you can see I was impatient and hung the ornament on the tree, and some of the red flocking got into the Stickles.

Santa Cat is one of my favorite images! The background glitter used is the Winter Snow Glitter Mix that is a custom mix of glitter, micro beads and Diamond Dust with just a tinge of light blue. Very sparkly!

More ornaments:

This ornament uses the German Fir Tree that has a flat back. Perfect to slather Stickles on, and then adding the Hello Christmas Polymer Clay Slices Mix as ornaments. Tweezers will make your life easier when adding the tiny pieces.

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