We are bringing back our most popular holiday contest again and giving you a chance to enter to win a prize a day. Today marks the beginning of our 12 Days of Christmas Giveaway. From Monday, December 1st until Friday, December 12th, we here at CraftPaperScissors will be running a different giveaway each day. Check back with us every day to see a wonderful new craft and prize that you can win!
Today is the first day in our 12 Days of Christmas Giveaway. You can enter each day to win the prize of the day! Contest rules and how to enter are below.
On the first day of our 12 Days of Christmas Giveaway, my true love gave to me Hand-Dyed Wooden Ornaments from Rit Dye Studio. Turn an unfinished wood ornament into a colorful, personalized place card, party favor, or gift topper with Rit Dye. They also look great on your tree!
Make today’s project!
Materials:
- Rit Dye, liquid, in the color of choice
- Unfinished wood ornament
- Sharpie oil-based pen for wood in silver or gold
- Bucket
- Rubber or latex gloves
- Measuring cup
- Large metal spoon
- Paper towels
- Table cover or newspaper
Instructions:
- Cover work surface with a plastic table cover or old newspaper.
- Sand unfinished wood items lightly. Brush off dust.
- Shake dye bottle before measuring. Wearing latex gloves, measure and mix 1/2 cup Rit Dye with 6 cups very hot water; stir well. If water is not hot enough, heat some in a teakettle or in the microwave. Test dye color with a paper towel. If color is too light, add more dye; if color is too dark, add more water. Dye will appear lighter when dry.
- Dip wooden ornament into dye bath for a few minutes or until desired shade is achieved. Remove and dry on paper towels. Repeat for each ornament.
To create table settings: - After ornaments are completely dry, write name of person on each ornament for place settings using a Sharpie silver or gold oil based pen for wood.
Enter to win today’s prize!
Today’s prize is the Color Perfect Dye Collection and Apron from Rit Dye Studio. The Color Perfect Dye Collection comes with six boxes of Rit Color Perfect dye in several vibrant shades and an apron to keep you clean while crafting. In order to win today’s 12 Days of Christmas Giveaway, all you need to do is leave a comment on this blog post below telling us:
What is your favorite type of Christmas ornament to make?
OFFICIAL RULES FOR DAILY CONTEST:
- There is a maximum of one entry per person. The entry will be based upon a comment left on this blog post. Duplicate comments will be deleted and are not tallied.
- Winner will be selected at random from the comments on this blog post.
- Winner will be announced here on the blog December 3, 2014 as well as contacted by the email address provided.
- You have until tomorrow, December 2, 2014 at 11:59p EST to leave your comment. Comments posted after that will not be counted.
- Contest open to anyone 18+ in US and/or Canada.
THIS CONTEST HAS ENDED! Be sure to check out more great giveaway opportunities below!
Congratulations to Tina Page!
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My favorite type of ornament to make is crocheted snowflakes, bells, etc., using thread, and I think it would be fun to experiment with dyeing them different colors.
My favourite thing to make is edible decorations. Especially for those times you just need a festive bubbles as you walk past the tree.
I love the apron and Color Perfect Dye Collection from Rit Dye Studio that is the first prize of the twelve -day Giveaway that runs from December 1 through December12.
I could really use a new apron–that would be great since the last apron I had is no longer in use–I retired it some years ago because it had gotten way too small (I just know it shrank from having been dried in the dryer all the many times it had to be washed—Yeah, right–LOL).
I could also use the dye to use on some project(s), yet to be started, so I can finish at the very least two projects, in time to give as Christmas presents.
And lastly, my BIRTHDAY is Christmas Day!!:-) It would be an unbelievably wonderful surprise if I was to win one prize for my birthday AND ALL the remaining eleven prizes for Christmas. Actually, I would be very happy to win ONE prize; I don’t fair well in contests or giveaways. I’m soon to turn 59, and I have participated in many giveaways/drawings and I have won two giveaways in all those years.
Having said all of that, I sincerely, wish everyone good luck. Thank you.
Susie
I reread the instructions and realize I need a totally different comment…sorry! Since I can’t delete anything, how do I solve the problem? I would say:
“My only (partially successful) attempt at DIY decorations was small iced sugar cookies. Not a very smart choice!”
light, airy snowflakes are my favorite ornament. cut from paper or crocheted.
I love making ornaments like I did when I was a child, and I love to make popsicle ornaments a snowflake is one of my favorite, because there are so many variations to it and so much coloring with markers and spots of Rit makes it pop especially if it is poka dots.. this is a lot of fun.
My favorite Christmas ornament to make are Angel’s holding a prayer to bless and watch over my entire family for the year to come. This prize would be great to color the Angel’s gowns. The bonus would also help with the handmade Christmas cards I do every year too. Thank you and Happy Holiday’s!
I love to make paper ornaments, especially quilled snowflakes. Can I dye paper stips?–I’ll try anything once!
snowmen
I love to make embroidered felt ornaments.
I am a bell collector and I love to crochet. I have them in a display case, on my tree as ornaments, etc. I have a really cute crochet bells christmas ornament pattern I make several of every year to give to friends and family.
I like to make strofoam balls with glitter glued to them
I enjoy making wood ornaments of all types as well as styrofoam my favorite is snowmen,balls an stars.
an also make felt an cork ornaments
My favorite type of ornament to make is crocheted snowflakes, stockings, wreaths and poinsettias.
My favorite type of ornament to make is snowflakes. I prefer making them out of paper & adding things like glitter to the tips. Thank you for the giveaway!
Haven’t made any for a long time but used to love the paint by number ones.
Snowflake ornaments.
I enjoy making the Paper Snowflakes .
My favorite Christmas ornaments to make are using glass or plastic spherical bulbs and doing something different each year with them! Always fun!
I love beaded ornaments. Anything with sparkling beads
I love to sew, so I enjoy sewing Christmas decorations, especially for gifts . This year I’m making Christmas trees by stacking green disks (slightly stuffed) that get progressively smaller. (shhhhh…… don’t tell- it’s a surprise.)
And I’m a children’s librarian, so I love doing crafts with the kids. This week we’ll be making and decorating cookies (paper and real) for National Cookie Day.
Every Christmas my daughters and grandchildren go into the craft room and have a “contest” to see what kind of ornaments we can make with what is on hand- we have turned out some very unique (and some hilariously funny) ornaments. One of my favorites is a photo of a famous celebrity who is holding her twin babies. One of my daughters cut out pictures of her and her sister ( adult heads) and pasted them on the faces of the babies. It makes me laugh every time I see it! Making homemade ornaments and having a homemade gift giving Christmas is something we have done for many many years and I hope they continue the tradition with their children.
My kiddos and I love to make glass ornaments filled with various things. One year we did “snow globes” with snowmen inside. Other times we have done glittery and this year we made some for the family that had something special for each person.
I like to make beaded ornaments the best.
i love to make sand dollar ornaments that look like Santa!!
I like making ornaments out of christmas cards 🙂
paper maiche
crocheted snowflakes!
I love making felted cat ornaments and tying them on packages, using them as garland or wreath ornaments, and giving them as little rembrences to my local shelter volenteers. One of the best gift ornaments i ever made was, a kitty ornament, felted with the cat hair from the recipiants own kitty, whom she had lost earlier that year. Out of all the gifts i have ever given, that one little ornament was the best! If you like to felt….using real pet hair is the best way to give special meaning to a gift. Happy Holidays Everyone!
I remember when I was in elementary school we would squirt paint inside of a clear glass bulb and slowly turn it to make crazy designs. I still hang up my ornaments I made in elementary school.
I enjoy making plaster ornaments for my much younger siblings to decorate. I also enjoy taking the plain clear glass bulbs and making them personal with photos, paint, flower petals, etc….
My favorite are the Christmas bulbs, so we can enjoy them every year.
Ruth Dec. 1, 2014 @2:47PM
My favorite this year is the quilted look Christmas balls. Working with Rit Dyes would
be a new experience for me – hopefully next year. I hope I can find some,as I didn’t
know they were available.
I love making snow globe ornaments with my niece. We just use jars, glitter, water, and a glue gun.
something w/my kids hands
I like making home made ornaments with the kids. Paper snowflakes and playdoh type of cut outs.
love to make Angel ornaments!!
Hi! I love to create ornaments from clear round glass or plastic ball ornaments. You can do everything from old world, mercury , dying, filling … I can make ornaments reminiscent of my childhood. Really takes me back to a truly magical time!
I make crocheted beaded
garlands with angels or bells.
I’ve always liked making paper chains for the Christmas Tree – so much fun to do together as a family … that, and popcorn strings!
I love to make ornaments out of pipe cleaners and beads to help the kids with fine motor skills!
Salt & flour handprint ornaments.
I found this really neat DIY project that involves yarn and a toilet paper roll. When you get done it looks like a hat! Been making them for all of the kiddos and I think that I will try and make a habit of making them a Christmas Ornament every year. Thanks!
my favorite ornaments are the glittery balls
I love making picture frames, with the latest family photos in them. Make great gifts and such much fun to look at how everyone changed through the years.
any ornament I make with my 8 year old which usually involves a lot of glitter and bling. We use scraps of ribbon and lace with a styrofoam ball
Very cute idea with the ornaments. And thanks for a chance to win the apron and dyes. I LOVE wearing my apron around the house and for crafting…I’m a messy crafter…lol
personalized ornaments for the family are so fun to make
Merry Christmas! I do lots of craft, I’m turning some tiny dolls into flower, different seasons and holiday fairies. My son is making them some unique jewelry wire wings. I also do daily loom knitting. Ornaments with pine cones, and fabric covered Styrofoam ornaments. Working also on a bamboo and tiny mirrors wind chime. Learned to be very crafty from my Mom, every year she craft all her Christmas tree ornaments, we are always sharing supplies and ideas.
I really wanted an ornament with my bird on it but she was not a very popular breed and so I could never find one, I started painting my own ornaments when I was around 16 or 17! I try to paint a new one every year, sometimes with a pet or just a general holiday pattern. It is nice to see them each year.
The variety of something new every Christmas. Felt Stockings to hang on the mantle are among my favorites but I also love the Handprints in Clay. A new DIY project every year.
I used to make Santa Boots with Styrofoam boot, sequins and pins. i remember my mother having them on the tree when i was young, so when I started doing crafts, those were the first things i made.
Beads, sequins, pins and Styrofoam!
I love to make ornaments with my kids. They are young still so they are normally styrafoam 🙂
I like to make simple cinnamon applesauce ornaments with my daughter. They smell wonderful and are super easy.
My favorite Christmas ornament to make depends on the year and what crafting I’m doing. This year it’s beaded ornaments, last year – cut glass. I love making Christmas ornaments.
My favorite ornaments to make are glass ornaments with cake sprinkles in them, and the melted crayon pieces in them
Anything with construction paper and glitter!
I am in love with color, and pearls. I like to color them myself and use them to embellish almost anything.
I love to do crafts for Christmas I like snowmen and snowflakes.
Great idea to dye the wooden ornaments. Love the rich red color. Awesome giveaway, thanks for the chance to win.
My favourite thing to make is edible decorations
Last year I made my granddaughter cupcake ornament with styrofoam balls cupcake liners and glitter.. Also I put colored feathers in glass ornaments
I love all handmade ornaments – quilled snowflakes, felt figures, and gingerbread cutouts are my favorite!
Cute ornament. I like using Styrofoam as my palate. I am thinking that I would ruin wood.
My favorite type of ornament to make is hand painted glass ornaments. I love to give them as gifts for Xmas.
This contest is “to dye for!”
Anything with angels.
Decoupage… with wood, string, paper, findings…. they are my favorite.
My favorite ornaments to make are little quilted stockings.
I like the ones I make with my kids!
I love to make counted cross stitch ornaments.
I love to paint winter scenes on christmas ornaments
i like to decorate glass orbs
I do not like making Christmas ornaments.
Since my twins still won’t leave the “precious” (i.e. glass) ornaments alone, this year we’ll be making all kinds of ornaments to brighten the tree and have some extra fun. I’m thinking some glittery, sparkly clay ones and some candy ones will do just nicely. We could add some dyed wood ones, too. LOL!
I’m making Yo Yo ornaments as I type.
My favorite ornament must be an angel – but which one is tough, I’ve made them from corn husks and doilies and ribbon and wool fleece and muslin. I think the doily angel was my favorite, except it doesn’t pack well and I don’t have many left. Second favorite are folded stars.
I love me some Rite Dye!!
My favorite Christmas ornaments to make are crocheted snowflakes and angels. I make them in white thread and use them as garland. they look so pretty with all the colorful lights.
I love to make salt ornaments!
I love to make ornaments from natural items…cones…sticks…feathers…etc but, that is not to say I don’t like all kinds of Craftsy ornaments!
I like to knit ornaments for the tree.
I love making all the handmade ball ornaments, whether w/ styrofoam balls or the glass balls, using paints, sequins, you name it! Oh, what fun!
anything
angels
My favorite Christmas ornaments that I have made for over 20 years are marshmallow balls. They are made by tacking mini marshmallows to a small styrofoam ball with quilting pins and sequins.
Popcorn string garland and popcorn balls. Also snacking as we craft… 🙂
Hand cut snowflakes out of coffee filters with the kids is the best. no two are the same and everyones stands out in there own little way
i love sewn ornaments
I love to make homemade clay ornaments. It was a popular thing to do when I was a kid. The process begins with the dough’s mixing and making, then ornament shaping, followed by baking. Finally, it is time to painting. This is my favorite part. They may not be the most appealing of ornaments, but they sure are fun to make.
My favorite ornament to make is a reindeer bulb. You take a bulb of any color and hot glue antlers and any facial expression you want. They make adorable ornaments.
My favorite ornament to make is felt cutouts with all sorts of glitter! Usually the shapes are Xmas trees, cats, and whatever else I can crudely cut out haha
Favorite Christmas ornaments to make? Must be any that are made with the children… watching the magic in their eyes as they create is priceless.
I make apple potpourri rings. Sort of old fashioned but they smell great and last forever.
With my husband helping,
we have cut out designs made
from designs on my electric
cutter in wood. Then painted
them and embellished them
to make ornaments.
Carla from Utah
The only ornaments that I have made have been the salt dough ornaments with my daughter’s hand and food prints!
I love to make angel ornaments for the tree!
I like to make ornaments with found objects and vintage ephemera.
I like to make ornaments out of things I can find in my yard. Wisteria vines are great for miniture wreaths, painted acorns, and pine cones.
I enjoy making paper chains with the kids.
I am the Angei maker. I am just now getting back in the swing of in and out of the hospital. G O D is bcking all of us……HE LIKES THIS TIME OF YEAR. bLESS
I like making ornaments out of clay and personalizing them with paint.
Gingerbread men with candy canes
I like any of the ornaments that have pictures or are made by the kids. Thank you
Santa Christmas ornaments are my favorite to make.
Hand spun glass ones
I like the hand crocheted snowflakes. I think they are really pretty. Thanks.
We like to make pine cone ornaments
I love making gingerbread applesauce ornaments every year! They always smell so amazing!
I love making glass ornaments with family pictures in them 🙂
I like making dough ornament Christmas ornaments.