DIY Personalized Christmas Ornament

by The Cofran Home

I love doing personalized Christmas Ornaments to keep track of each year, and be able to look back and see how much my kids have grown! This project is SO easy and cute for a quick gift or even just to hang on your own tree!

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What you’ll need:

- Plastic or glass clear ornaments

- Wallet size pictures

- Fishing line (or clear string)

- Any decorative items you want for the outside of the ornament (I used glittery bows)

- Double sided tape

- Ribbon or hook (to hang the ornament on the tree)

I printed out the year on my computer and outlined a circle around it. I used it as a template to cut my picture so they were the same size.

Next, I removed the metal top off my glass ornament.

I then cut a few inches of the fishing line and fed it through the top of the metal top of the ornament. There are 2 holes on the top of the ornament so you’ll feed one end through one hole and the other end through the other end. It ends up making like an upside down “u”.

Once the fishing line was through the top, I used my double stick tape to stick the picture to the front of the fishing line, and the “2015” circle to the back of the fishing line.

I cut off the excess fishing line that was sticking through the bottom of the circle. Then I rolled up the picture and 2015 circle (picture side out) and inserted them into the clear glass ornament. The metal top went right back onto the ornament when the picture went in, since they were attached.

Before I put the metal top completely back on, I put a pen through the top of the ornament to try to smooth the picture out since it was still a little rolled up. (I found that using thinner paper, like regular computer paper, for the back works best to keep it as flat as possible when it unrolls in the ornament. Thick paper tends to stay more rolled up)

Then I put the glitter bow around the metal part of the ornament, and attached a ribbon through the top so it can hang on a tree (a hook would work too).