Christmas Card Ornaments

January probably seems an odd time to be making Christmas Ornaments but I hate throwing out Christmas cards once the season is over, it seems like I'm throwing out goodwill and good wishes. I was searching the internet for ideas to up-cycle my cards and came across these beautiful Christmas card ornaments here.

I kept the idea in the back of my head for a few weeks, but the right time to sit down and do that much gluing never presented itself with a toddler underfoot. I then stumbled across this blog, which has a free silhouette studio cut file for a folded paper Christmas ornament, and the rest, as they say, is history.  Having a silhouette portrait machine certainly sped up the process for making these but you could cut them by hand very easily too.

My advice if you're going to make these too:

I spent some time trying to pick the prettiest part of each card to cut, but you don't really see enough of each card to make that time well spent.

Try and keep like weighed card together in the balls, mine are deforming slightly where I have really heavy cardstock next to light weight ones.

 These are made mine from 3 inch flowers, which gave me 2 flowers from most of my Christmas cards.