Homemade for the Holidays: Day 5 - Sarah from Alderberry Hill

Happy Friday!  Today is day five of Homemade for the Holidays.  Visiting us today is the talented Sarah, from Alderberry Hill, with a great Christmas tree ornament gift idea.


Hi friends! This is Sarah from Alderberry Hill. 

I am so excited to be sharing my 

Glitter Button Ornament 

tutorial with you today for Jen's Homemade for the Holidays series.

I am honored to be here!

I am in full swing with Christmas crafting, pop on over to my blog and check out my other Christmas ideas!

There have been so many great tutorials so far, I am always amazed by all the talent out there, you gals rock!

Here's the finished ornament and below I'll tell you how easy it is to create.

I started with a styrofoam ball, pick any size you like.

I got out my button stash and picked out mostly green buttons and a few yellow. Again choose colors to your preference, I bet a multi colored ornament would be fantastic as well.

All you do is start hot gluing the buttons to the styrofoam ball, overlap where necessary for a layered effect. I added the yellow buttons last, I thought a little contrasting color looked nice.

Once I had the ball covered I added a really wide ribbon for the hanger and also glitterfied (made up word) it! I painted a light coat of Mod Podge over the buttons and then sprinkled the glitter on. Glitter makes everything better!

Now you're done! Easy, right?

Thanks so much Jen for including me in this series, I had fun!

Sarah