Recycled Wine Cork Christmas Ornaments

Recycled Wine Cork Christmas Ornaments are easy craft ideas to make and a great way to transform those old wine corks (that you may have been saving because they were too pretty to throw away) into something new! Also, they make for perfect kids crafts projects. Feel free to convert the colors I've used in my ornaments to suite your Christmas tree, but I do propose using monochromatic colors for the ornaments so the fabricate is more clear, and likewise, softer colors so the expression of the angel is more peaceful!

Materials Needed:

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• Wine Corks
• Gold Acrylic Paint
• Old Paintbrush
• Cardboard(to safe your work surface)
• Glue Gun and Glue Sticks
• Light Pink Pom-Poms
• Light Pink Feathers
• Light Pink Lace
• Gold Pipe Cleaners
• Scissors

Step 1: Begin painting your wine corks. Squeeze a itsybitsy Golden Gold Acrylic paint onto a piece of cardboard. Brush the paint to fully cover the cork and set to the side to dry. Continue to paint at least twelve corks gold so you will have a decent sized set of angels. One of the reasons I like to use acrylic paint in many of my craft projects is because it drys very fast and adheres to practically every surface without cracking. With other paints you do run the risk of being surprised by the way it may react to a surface, so assuredly do a test run if you conclude to use someone else kind of paint. This is a good rule of thumb for any project! The one less extraordinary thing about acrylic paint is that it will not come out of your clothes once it dries. Wash it up very quickly and soak your brush in water when it's not in use.

Step 2: Plug in your glue gun so that by the time your ready to glue on the pipe cleaner and feathers it will be hot. Take the gold pipe cleaner and cut it into 4″ lengths. Continue to cut three more pipe cleaners into 4″ lengths. This will leave you with a combine extras to convention the halo with. To make the halo wrap one end of the 4″ pipe cleaner around your pointer finger. Twist the remaining long end around the start of your halo. Bend the halo so that the remaining pipe cleaner and the halo form a 90 degree angle. Then make a 3/4 inch 90 degree fold at the lowest of the pipe cleaner going in the same direction as the halo. Continue this step with the remaining halos. Now it is time to glue the feathers to the gold wine cork. I cut the ends off the nicest feathers in my bag to get a nicely shaped wing. With the glue gun put a dab of glue 1″ down from the top of the cork. Cleave the feathers to generate the angles wings. To glue the halo to the angle place glue on the 3/4 inch fold of your pipe cleaner and press it to the top flat surface on the wine cork. Hold for about thirty seconds.

Step 3: Cut 3/4 inch pieces of lace from the two yards of lace you bought. About 1/2 to a 1/4 inch above the lowest of the wine cork squeeze a ring of glue around the lowest of the cork. quickly Cleave the lace to the glue around the lowest ring of the cork. Don't worry, if your glue dries before finishing, you can always add more glue! Now you just have to glue the pom pom to the top of the wine cork beneath the halo.

Tie some gold string to the halo of the embellishment and hang it from your tree!

Recycled Wine Cork Christmas Ornaments

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