Remember these? Found 'em while I was doing a little treasure hunting. There are endless projects to be done with clear glass Christmas balls. Today, I'm gonna share one project that you can do with these beauties. Well, I guess it's just one project...one project with several different outcomes. Hang on to your socks...I told you I had a feeling I'd been knocking them off!
So here is what the ornaments looked like before. Someone had spent lots of time folding up little pipe cleaners and stuffing them into each ball. Lucky for me, I ended up with glass ornaments and lots of pipe cleaners to use for another project!
I used all 12 for this project...they were too pretty to stop stuffing! I decided to top them off with all different sorts of embellishments. I ended up filling them all with vintage sheet music, but I chose 3 different ways to stuff them; rolled up, crimped, and plain ole strips. Here are several close ups. I know, I know...I took A LOT of pictures, but you're only seeing the ones that I posted! They are just so darling!
When I started this project, I thought I would do them all alike. I pulled out all the pipe cleaners and began cutting the sheet music into strips.
I just started stuffing the balls with the strips, until they were full enough for me ( I had to use tweezers) and then put the caps back on.
I used all sorts of pieces for embellishments. Brown ribbon, burlap, twine, lace, even a few of the pipe cleaners I had pulled out.
I got tired of just the strips, so I started rolling the strips up, holding them tightly for a few seconds, then stuffing them down into the glass. I think these turned out real pretty!
I had an old big book of sheet music, probably used for piano practice, and then I had an old hymnal. The hymnal pages actually rolled up and held their shape better, but I preferred the grungy color of the sheet music. In the ornament below, I used the hymnal pages. Can you tell the difference in color?
The last style I used was crimping, or what looked like crimping. I just folded the strips, accordian style, back and forth, then stuffed into the balls. You see my repurposed pipe cleaners sticking out up there?!
Gosh, I just love how these turned out!
