Today I’m sharing the set of blue Christmas ornaments I made. As with the red and green ornaments, I made these by adding polymer clay to a glass spice jar.

For this ornament I strung together several pretty blue glass beads and hung them inside the jar. These ornaments are just beautiful hanging in a window, or with a Christmas light behind them.

For the bottom of the ornament I used my large Maple leaf cookie cutter and cut out several leaves which I stamped and colored with metallic blue Pearl Ex powder. I overlapped the leaves on the bottom of the jar and then layered star shapes over that.

I layered textured star shapes over the top of the ornament as well. On this one I added a string of metallic seed beads and a string of blue seed pods. Half the fun of making these ornaments is sifting through my bead and broken jewelry stash to find just the right beads. These seed pods came from a really cool necklace and they’ve found their way into several of my creations 😉

I used Tacky glue to help adhere the textured stars on the corners of the jar. Tacky glue works really well with baked and unbaked polymer clay.

For this ornament I made good use of some of my flower cutters. I love using cookie cutters and cake decorating cutters with polymer clay 🙂

For the top of this one I layered flowers in decreasing size. First I brushed the flattened sheet of clay with blue Pearl Ex powder, then I used an intricate Victorian filigree stamp to impress a pretty design, then I cut out the flower petal shapes. Brushing the clay with Pearl Ex powder before stamping it helps to keep the clay from sticking to the stamp.

I added flowers around the top and down the sides as well. Once again I used Tacky glue to help adhere the unbaked clay to the glass.

I stacked more daisy flower petal shapes on the bottom of the ornament. I love the way the Pearl Ex powder helps the stamped design to stand out.

So that’s it for the ornaments for now, although I’m sure I’ll be making more of these. Projects like these ornaments allow me to explore my creativity and experiment with different techniques. 🙂

Thanks for stopping by!

~Michelle

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