Ornament Thursday

This is the third installment of Ornament Thursday, an online round robin ornament (idea) exchange that grew out of a desire to spend some time crafting with friends. It has been so fun to see this thing take on a life of its own.

For this week's ornament, I wanted to frame a little piece of art. Of course, beads had to be involved somehow. Ranger's Memory Frames turned out to be just the ticket. I turned one upside down so I could make a tassel at the bottom. I heart tassels!

I love this idea because it can be as simple or as complicated as you want to make it. If you have less time, you can just turn the frame right side up and put a quote inside it. If you have more time, you could add a more intricate seed bead tassel to the bottom. There are a lot of possibilities.

The image inside the frame is from Cardmaker's Christmas Clear & Frosted Overlays by Hot Off The Press. I love this because it looks stamped but is super quick and easy. It's transparent, so it would look especially pretty hanging in a window. I'm all about hanging ornies all around my house.

For the hanger, I made spirals on each end of a 4" piece of 20-gauge Colourcraft wire and folded the wire in half and glued the spirals to the front and back of the frame. Repeat for the other side of the frame. Then I used crimps to attach a short piece of red Beadalon 7 to the spirals.

For the tassel, I folded the fibers and a piece of wire through the loop on the frame. I coiled a short piece of wire around the tassel to hold all of the stuff in place. Then, I spiralled the wire ends. I loosely coiled the long wire and added some beaded dangles to the bottom. The wire, red suede lace and beads are from Beadalon and the fuzzy fibers are from Hot Off The Press.

Tons of people have joined our crafty round robin! Surf these links for more fun ornament ideas. We don't want anyone to feel left out - if you want to join in, just leave your url in the comments...

Fun spoon snowmen - Candie Cooper
Joyful stamped dovie - Margot Potter
Pretty bead embroidery - Linda Augsburg
Scented clay cookie - Melanie Brooks Lukacs
Dual purpose art bead ornie - Art Bead Scene
Jingle spiral - Cindy Gimbrone
Charming art bead ornies - Heather Powers
Stamped poly clay & beads - Polymer Clay Craft Gossip
Glitter paint and glass - Alexa Westerfield
Sparkly girlfriend ornies - Debba Haupert
Starry stamped polymer clay - Elaine Luther
PMC & kid's art ornie - Melissa Lee
Painted glass orbs - Michelle McGee
Super bright starburst - Jennifer Heynen
Stephen Colbert angel - Hali Chambers
Vintage cone - Kriss Kramer

Peppermint decor - Lisa Liddy
Sweet snowy guys - Brandy Lung Gill
Christmas card star - Jenny Harada
Glittery vintage goodness - Rebecca Peck
Patterned paper orbs - Sara Naumann
Metal stamping - Lynn Kvigne
And there's a cool star ornament at Beading Daily