Saturday, December 5, 2009

JINGLE BELL HOP!!

WELCOME TO THE JINGLE BELL HOP FOR CH{ALL}ENGE MASTERS!!!
I hope you have enjoyed your journey so far. If your just starting the Jingle Bell Hop you will need to start out at The Ch{all}enge Masters Blog at 9am and then follow the link to the next blog, and the next and leave a comment for each blog you visit to be entered into a drawing for the grand prize from Ch{all}enge Masters!! The Blog Hop starts at 9am today and ends at midnight on Sunday Dec. 6th. At the end of this post you will find the link to the next blog you need to vist. Hope you have fun and there will be a chance to win a small little goodie from me if you leave a comment! I will randomly draw a name from all the blog hoppers on Monday! Once you are done the Blog Hop you must go back to The Ch{all}enge Masters Blog and leave a comment that you visited all of blogs in The Jingle Bell Hop to be eligable to win the grand prize! Now, on to the good stuff!

Christmas time is such a magical time of year and brings us back to our childhoods with memories of the anticipation of Santa coming down the chimney with tons of gifts! My mother worked hard to make Christmas a very magical time with all the gorgeous decorations, beautifully wrapped gifts and all the fun things we got to do to celebrate the season.

Below you will find a project that I thought symbolized all those magical memories from when I was a child. and was just the sort of project my mother and I would do during this time of year. I hope you enjoy it and try it in some fashion yourself! If you do, please send me a link so I can see it! Love this!!!

I saw a show on Martha Stewart where she made a wreath completely with fresh cranberries. I so love cranberries and just had to do a project with them myself. To me, cranberries is a big symbol of the season and I have them everywhere you look!

You will need a foam shape of some sort, wether it's a wreath, ball, cone etc. A pack of toothpicks, fresh cranberries, ribbon, hot glue gun, & any other decoration you would like to use like flowers, buttons, or you can just use the cranberries by themselves.

I chose to do cranberry ball hanging from ribbon. You can hang these on your tree, porch or anywhere really and they should last about 2 weeks, at least that's what Martha says ;}

First, paint the ball a Christmas color of your choice.Take a toothpick and insert it into the stem end of the cranberry and then insert into the styrofoam ball. Continue to do thia all the way around to cover the entire ball. It may be better to add some hot glue and then put them into the ball to add some strength. I had to do this on some as they would come lose and fall out on a couple of them.



Then, cut a long length of ribbon and hot glue the center of the ribbon to the top of your ball. Be sure to leave a bit of room at the top without any cranberries to do this. Then add your cranberries to cover the glued ribbon at the top.



This is what it looks like completed. Sorry, I didn't have time to take another pic of the construction for you, but you can clearly see what was added and how.I tied the ribbon into a bow at the top and added Making Memories flowers, with gold brads in the centers, around the ball. I also added a gold glittered star from Making Memories at the top.You could leave it plain with just cranberries or add buttons or other types of embellishments, it just depends on your style. The picture below shows what it looks like hanging on the tree without any lights on.



Below is what it looks like with lights on and it's quite pretty. You could hang this under the fireplace too, or on a door.







This what it would looh like on the door.



If you leave me a comment you will be entered into a drawing to win an awesome bag of Ki Memories Ribbons! There are at least 28, it was hard to count them all jumbled up in the bag and I didn't want to open them, different ribbons all 1 yard each! This is a great little gift for yourself or someone on your list! I will ship these anywhere in the US or Canada. Sorry I can not ship elsewhere internationally. I will randomly draw a name to win the ribbon on Monday December 7th so be sure to stop back and see who won!! I hope you enjoyed my blog and I would love it if you followed me :} Have fun hopping!!



Now you need to go over a visit Lisa's Blog! Have fun!

34 comments:

  1. I love that ornament! Very pretty.

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  2. Your ornament is absolutely stunning!! I bet they make your Christmas Tree look so beautiful. Thanks for the easy tutorial - I'm going to try this out!!

    Merry Christmas!!!

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  3. wow!! such an elegant ornament...Great job...Merry Christmas

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  4. Great Ornament Sharon!! I love cranberries too and this was just the neatest idea for using fresh berries! Thanks for sharing!

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  5. Love this....and I adore MS and cranberries!!!! I usually do all kinds of flower arrangements with them at the bottom of the vase!!! AWESEOME PROJECT!!!! Stop by and give me a shout..I adore meeting new people who have a passion for life and crafting!!! Beautifu Blog!!! :-)

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  6. wow - this is awesome. I bet you could make an outdoor version to tie to trees and give the birds a winter treat also...we used to do this with pine cones - rolled in honey/peanut butter, and then oats or nuts.

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  7. Very elegant and imaginative orn! Happy blog hop!

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  8. Hey Girl!

    Just wanted to say HOW excited I am to see your gorgeous Christmas Creation! I knew it would be fabulous, as always!

    It's been such a blessing to have met you and have you as one of my very best friends. I am equally honored that we both will be working together on the Cutters Creek Design Team

    I'm having fun hopping along with all the Ch{all}enge Masters today and have found some really cute new craft ideas!

    Hugs and Love,
    Lisa
    ThePurplePlace
    Cutters Creek Design Team Member

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  9. Beautiful ornament! I think these would be gorgeous in the bottom of my glass hurricane as well. Thanks for sharing such a great idea!

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  10. I LOVE this ornament! I am def going to try and make this. I think it is so cool that those are REAL cranberries. When I first saw the photo, I thought they were just foam. beautiful!

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  11. Wow, that ornament is sooo pretty! And it looks fairly easy to make. Love that it uses real cranberries!

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  12. What a great ornament! Now I need to add cranberries to my grocery list!

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  13. fanstastic ornament. really love it

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  14. What a beautiful ornament. I love the ribbon!

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  15. What a fabulous and elegant ornament!

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  16. Oh my, I just love that! SSSOOO pretty!

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  17. Oh wow, this is gorgeous! Fantastic work =)

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  18. OH MY HEAVENS!!! THAT IS GOOOOOOOORGEOUS!!! you are so talented! I have got to get my husband to get me some cranberries we have to try this. wow!!! love your blog. got to follow!!

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  19. Wow!!! I have got to try that!!! Just beautiful, I will be following your blog!

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  20. I would love to try that ornament in my christmas tree.

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  21. WOW! whay a beautiful ornament!!

    ... I have a bag of cranberries left over from Thanksgiving... thanks for the awesome idea!!!!!

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  22. OMG!!! I have never seen this before. I called my husband into my scrap room and told him about your ornament. He was like yah!!! (he watches all those cooking shows so he's seen this before) This is sooo FAB!!!! Love how you took a pic of your RAK in the tree.

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  23. Absolutely STUNNING project!!!!! I LOVE cranberries too! :) They're so PRETTY! :) Thanks for your pretty pics too!

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  24. beautiful. The ribbon looks so pretty & bright with the lights on the tree, Great idea & looks great

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  25. Way cool idea! Your turned out beautifully!!

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  26. What sweet, sweet Christmas memories. I got all choked up reading your post! That ornament is just GORGEOUS!!! I just may have to try making one!!

    Thank you so much for taking part in the very first CM blog hop & for all you did to make it such a HUGE success!!!!

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  27. I LOVE that ornament...totally gorgeous...This blog hop is just giving me way tooo many ideas! LOL!!!

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  28. Excellent idea on the ornament! Thanks for sharing!

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  29. The ornament is amazing..as is your blog...
    Thanks for sharing with all of us..
    Haooy Holidays..

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  30. Howdy Sharon,
    Just stopping by! :)
    Cool Christmas ornament. I think I need to remember this for the ornament swap I take part in as a candidate for next year.

    Thanks for the invitation to stop by.
    Hope you are off to a good week,
    Teri

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