We made these fun salt dough ornament decorations. I used to make ornaments with my mom at Christmas time. It s fuin to have the fall twist. The first thing we did was make up some salt dough. The recipe follows this post.
Roll out the dough to 1/4 inch thickness.
Using a round cookie cutter, cut out circles.
We tried two techniques. The first one I found at the Artist Woman. It involves taking silk flowers and pressing them down really well – trying to get the impression of the leaf outline and veins. I couldn’t tell how these were going to turn out, so I also came up with a plan B.
I happen to have these decorative pie cutters, so we lightly pressed down on these to give the different fall impressions on the round discs we had cut out.
Using a straw, we punched out little holes so the ornaments could go on a string after baked.
We ended up with a variety of fall designs on our circle ornaments. We baked the ornaments on 250 for 2.5 + hours. Let these cool completely before painting.
We then painted the leaf, pumpkin or acorn section with red, orange and/or yellow acrylic craft paint.
After the paint dried, we added another layer of watered down, brown acrylic paint. You just add water to a dark brown paint and mix it together. The watered down paint seeps into the cracks to bring out texture in the ornaments and gives a cool looking brown wash over the top.
You can add Mod Podge to the ornaments once they are dry to give a glazed effect.
You can string them together to make a beautiful display for your mantel or you can hang them individually.
These are gorgeous and oh so much fun!
Love the idea of turning them into ornaments. They turned out fantastic! Thanks so much for the link back Jodi. I’ll have to look for those piecrust cutters as they did a great job.
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