Making Baroque Framed Ornaments
A quick project for the Christmas tree for those who love a bit of Baroque style! These are heavier ornaments and work best on trees with sturdier branches such as nobles or faux trees
Materials
- Mini Baroque gold frames
- Pictures to fit
- Cardstock
- Thin ribbon
- Tape
- Hot glue gun
- Scissors
Instructions
- Find art you like.
- Copy and paste images onto a blank document resizing as needed to fit the frame. This may take a couple trys to get it right. Measure the inside of the frame where the picture goes and adust your image to be a bit bigger (not much). Round frames will need to be configured with a bigger image.
- Print out images on cardstock.
- Cut out images to fit frame leaving room for tape and glue.
- Cut lengths of ribbons the size you want. I don't recommend making these too long as the ornament is heavy.
- Tape the image on the sides of the back of the frame as shown in the photo.
- Glue one side of the ribbon on the top of the frame as shown.
- Glue the other side of the ribbon on top and press down. Be careful of the hot glue!
- Let the ornament cool a few mintues.
- Enjoy ornaments!
Notes
Tips:
- To save on ink when configuring image sizes, print a copy in black and white draft mode on plain copy paper.
- Don't make ribbon hangers too long, as these are heavier ornaments.
- If you want to coat the image with something, I personally like to spray Mod Podge in gloss. I find brushing on Mod Podge tends to slightly blur the ink.
- This works with vellum paper too, and allows light to shine through!