Quick & Easy Personalized Wood Slice Ornaments
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Lori Haught Harper
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Here’s a quick and easy DIY project that will surely please your recipients – personalized wood slice ornaments!
Use your imagination for any kind of designs you like. The ornaments I made are free-hand lettered with a woodburner and embellished with a little paint and some ribbon. Pinterest and Etsy websites have all kinds of ideas – simply search “wood slice ornaments” for some pictures that inspire you.
Use your imagination for any kind of designs you like. The ornaments I made are free-hand lettered with a woodburner and embellished with a little paint and some ribbon. Pinterest and Etsy websites have all kinds of ideas – simply search “wood slice ornaments” for some pictures that inspire you.
STEP 1: First, locate some nice branches. For my ornaments, I used fallen branches of cedar and tangelo trees, but any variety would work as long as they are the diameter you want and in good shape. These measure 2-1/2″ or so. If you have the time to spare before you need to give out your ornaments or would rather not cut them, these can be ordered online from sites like Etsy.
STEP 2: Slice the branch on a bandsaw to approximately 1/4″ thick. (The bandsaw was stopped for the purpose of this photo.) A single branch can produce a lot of these little ornaments!
STEP 3: Drill a small hole —1/8″ works nicely — at the top of each wood slice for hanging the ornament on the tree. A drill press makes this a quick and easy step. A hand drill will work too.
STEP 5: Woodburn to personalize the ornaments. I used a small woodburning tool to add names, dates, snowflakes and little designs around the edges of the ornaments, making each one a little different. I love the look of the burn on the natural surface of these, and the cedar ones smelled really good when burning them.
STEP 6: Add paint and embellishments. I filled in with a little acrylic paint where I had woodburned holly leaves and berries, added some clear sparkle paint as highlights on snowflakes or around edges, and even added some “snow” on a few ornaments. Next, add ribbon for hanging and you are ready to gift your creations!
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Suggested materials:
- Wooden branch or wood slices (Nature or Etsy)
- Acrylic Paint & embellishments (JoAnn Fabrics)
- Woodburning Pen (Woodcraft)
- Bandsaw (Woodcraft)
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Published November 21st, 2016 10:01 AM
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