12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS: CLAY ORNAMENTS

I wanted to take a break from the recipes and for day 8 of “12 days of Christmas” I am showing you how to make some beautiful ornaments that look super fancy but are as easy as rolling out a batch or sugar cookies. I love trying to recreate ornaments I see at all my favorite home stores. There is a local pottery maker in town that makes the most beautiful ornaments (that I could never re-create), but it did inspire me to try something similar.

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WHAT YOU NEED:
clay – I used this one and this one
Side note: I used 2 kinds, oven baked and air dry – I wanted to see which worked better

Here’s the verdict: I like the smoothness of the oven baked, but the air dry dried more white. I ended up painting the oven baked white. So it was an extra step, but the clay seemed a little easier to work with…moving on
Cookie cutters – I bought these from Target
Stamps – I got these from Joann’s
Rolling pin
Craft paint – I used this one Martha Stewart brand

STEP 1: Roll clay out on a cutting board with a rolling pin.

STEP 2: Cut into any shape you desire. I had some Christmas cookie cutters, so I used those and also made some round ones.

STEP 3: It you want to add stamps or any decorations, so that now. Also, using a straw or toothpick, make holes to later put ribbon through to be able to hang the ornament.

STEP 4: Bake ornaments according to package directions (if using the oven baked kind) or allow to air dry (if using the air-dryed kind).

STEP 5: Once the ornament have been baked or dried, you can be done or you can paint or seal. I decided to paint the smaller shaped ornaments. I taped them off and then used gold craft paint to paint. I decided to fill in the lettering I stamped on the round ornaments to make the words pop. I just used a skinny sharpie.