I am so excited to be participating in this Secret Santa Tour! A bunch of my blogging friends and I decided to have a Secret Santa tour this year. We were each randomly selected a blogger to make a Christmas gift for. The blogger who was chosen as my recipient is Jeanette from Snazzy Little Things! I ended up making Jeanette two gifts, I couldn’t decide which one to make for her so I made both. In this post I am sharing how I made the Wood Slice Chalk Ornaments.
Jeanette has this cool French Industrial style that I love so when she was chosen as my recipient I knew I wanted to make something with “chalk” for her. I have seen wood slice ornaments around and I love everything chalkboard, I thought it would be cute to make chalk wood slice ornaments but I wanted the ornaments to be reversible with more wood showing on the reverse side. When I was snooping on Jeanette’s site, I saw some silhouettes, that’s how I came up with the idea of doing black silhouettes on the reverse side of these ornaments. I chose a snowflake for her daughter, a deer head for her son, a sheltie dog profile for her dog, Joyeux Noel for her husband and my favorite, the chair profile for Jeanette’s ornament. Jeanette has a knack for giving new life to furniture so I thought the chair ornament would be perfect for her!
Here you can see both sides of the ornaments.
The supplies I used for these ornaments are:
- birch log (or you can buy wood slices at your local craft store)
- black poster board (don’t use chalk paper I tried it, the glue made the paper all wrinkly)
- Chalk marker
- hot glue
- eye hooks
- twine
- black marker
- templates
Step 1: I cut a birch log up with my miter saw. The rings are about half an inch thick.
Step 2: Using some black poster board cut some circles out, my circles are about 3″ round.
Step 3: Using a template trace the shape of the letters onto your black poster board circles and trace the silhouette of your graphic onto the back side of your wood slice. I used my silhouette machine to make my letters and graphics for this project. You could hand cut your graphics out or use a store bought template if you don’t have a silhouette machine.
Step 4: Lettering, I went over the letters using a white chalk marker on the black poster board circles and a black magic marker to fill in the graphics on the reverse side of the ornaments.
Step 5: Using very little hot glue I glued the black rounds onto the wood slices (don’t use too much glue or you will have poster board that ripples).
Step 6: Screw in your eye hooks and attach a piece of twine that’s it you are done!
The other gift that I made for Jeanette is this chickadee finger knitted yarn wreath tutorial will be up soon.
This tour has been so much fun I really enjoyed making these gifts for Jeanette. The gift I received is this awesome knitted deer head from Roeshel of The DIY Showoff. Isn’t this the cutest thing ever? I love everything deer this works perfect with my Christmas decor!
I hope you will tour my blogger friends below to see what they made and what they received!
Birch slices for ornaments! So clever and cute Dria! Thanks for putting together such a fun tour my friend. Happy Thanksgiving and oh did I mention I, I need that wonderful wreath you made too! 😉
What an extremely thoughtful gift! I love how you personalized it for her! They turned out so beautiful too! Love everything about it!
Dria, I just wood slice ornaments! I am sure Jeanette does as well. I love Roeshel’s deer head in your home. Such a fun tour. Thanks so much for organizing!
Love the ornaments! You did an awesome job!
Thank you so much Leslie!
I love your ornaments, Dria! I just know Jeanette had to love receiving these…and a wreath? It’s beautiful too! Thanks for putting this fun tour together!! 🙂
Thank you Christy! This has been such a fun tour can’t wait to do it again next year!
I love it Dria. The wreath and the ornaments is fabulous. I love the deer head too.
Aww thank you Vanessa! Loved making those gifts for Jeanette and love that deer head so much!
dria i love the way you made the ornaments personal and love love the wreath xx
Aww thank you so much Chris!!
You outdid yourself, Dria! These are AMAZING. <3
🙂 Thank you so much I am grateful Jeanette’s style is so similar to mine made thinking what to make so easy!
Those ornaments are so creative Dria!!! I love them! 🙂 The wreath is so pretty too!!
Your deer head hanging on the door looks great there!!
Such a fun tour!!!
Nancy
🙂 Thank you so much Nancy! I agree this has been such a fun tour!
Love your birch slice ornaments – such a great idea! The wreath is adorable too. How lucky for Jeanette to receive two awesome gifts from you! Such a great blog hop and I’m off to see what everyone else made and received.
Thank you so much Marie! It has been a lot of fun seeing what everyone made!
I love these, Dria. And how clever of you to decorate both sides! The wreath is gorgeous too! Have a great Thanksgiving. ~ Angie
🙂 Thank you so much Angie! Happy Thanksgiving to you too!