10/09/2025
Steps for making the cookie cutter ornaments. Clean the cookie cutter especially if it's older. I use compressed and molded cardboard packing pieces to spray paint in... they have high and low areas so it's easy for the paint to flow around. You can find some fun cookie cutters at antique stores or thrift stores.
Hobby Lobby sells card stock that is glittery. It's very pretty... I cut out two pieces of this by tracing the cookie cutter. This is the hardest part. Getting the piece of glittery cardstock to fit inside the cookie cutter and you want a tight fit. I just keep sizing up the cutout to the cookie cutter and trim it and trim it and trim it all around just tiny little bits until I can just push it about halfway into the middle of the cookie cutter. Once you can do this Trace the first cut out. You need to have both glitter sides facing out because you're going to glue these pieces together. I then punch a hole at the top of each tracing. Then I use a glue stick and glue the two glittery pieces together I push it into the cookie cutter. You want the thick edge of the cookie cutter to be facing upward. Push the glued together glittery cut out in from the bottom of the cookie cutter. This is the cutting edge of the cookie cutter which is thinner. I use clear tacky glue and I run a bead of the tacky glue just on the top edge of the card stock where it meets the inside of the cookie cutter. Let that dry. Once it's dry the project becomes fun. The ribbon I purchased at Hobby Lobby - it's approximately a quarter of an inch wide maybe a little smaller but quarter inch is fine. Cut 9 in of it and using a pointy stick or tweezers or toothpick help it through the hole and then tie a knot and tug at the ribbon so that the knot ends up inside the cookie cutter because you want to hide that knot. I snip the end of the ribbon by the knot a little bit and then I hot glue it down. Using miniature silver garland from Amazon I start gluing the Garland on the inside of the cookie cutter all along the inside edge. Then I start pulling out all kinds of little doo-dads : stars, small snowflakes, tiny metallic pom poms, beads, you can even cut up plastic beaded garland and use those beads, jingle bells, anything colorful and small. Use broken jewelry, buttons... you want variation but you want some repetition because that always pleases the eye so if you have a purple bead somewhere somewhere else have a little purple pom pom. Little plastic candy canes or plastic candies or plastic gummy bears. Loosely arranged them and then start hot gluing them into place if you have gaps you can cut some of the garland and glue it in between use a wooden pointed skewer to push it down into the hot glue. Then you are finished!
