How to make an ornament from molding!

This year is all about making ornaments for one of my trees.  So far I have made Polish Star Ornaments, Paper Star Ornaments, Pipe-cleaner ornaments and these paper ornaments.  Do you want to learn how to make an ornament from molding?  You’re in the right place 🙂

 

I was down my basement a few days ago painting a piece of wood when I was looking in my scrap wood pile.  I picked up a piece of molding and thought the shape of the profile would be an awesome ornament!  Do you have some favorite molding?  Why not make an ornament from it?

I made three different ornaments from the profiles of some molding that I bought a while back at Home Depot.  Here is an example of how I made one of these ornaments.  I also have templates at the end of this post if you want to make your own!

The image below is the shape of part of a piece of molding.

Using my graphic software I copied this image three times, flipping and mirroring the image to create the image below.

Then I added this image to silhouette duplicated the image to fit 6 copies on one page.

Step One:  Print your images out.  You need to use 12 pieces per ornament.

 

Step Two: Fold each piece in half lengthwise.

 

Step three: Glue your pieces together as shown below.   Glue right next to the right side.  Glue two sets of 6 pieces each.

 

Step four: At this point you will have two sets of 6 pieces each.

 

Step five: Use a piece of ribbon, string, threat, twine etc in the middle of these two sections.

 

You are done!!

 

 

 

You can use these templates to make your own.

Printable Shape 1

Printable Shape 2

Printable Shape 3

 

Silhouette Files:

Silhouette Shape 1

Silhouette Shape 2

Silhouette Shape 3

 

Other Christmas DIY projects you may be interested in:

Polish Star Ornaments