Sunday, December 15, 2013

Simple airship ornaments

I'm steampunking my Christmas tree. So far this has meant removing all the green and blue ornaments and adding some dark brown and deep red ones. But I wanted to make some ornaments of my own. Here's my first, very basic try.

I chose a yellow-brown shade of cardstock and a dark brown shade, then freehand-cut airships out. They turned out pretty good although I probably should have made them smaller for my little table tree. I punched holes in the tops and strung them with dark brown yarn.


But that was pretty boring, so I found some model paint that I bought on sale ages ago and had never used. It's supposed to be gold, but it was only sort of goldish. It didn't show up at all on the yellow airship, so I used black instead. If I make more of these I'll probably use a glitter gel pen or something.

Here are the finished ornaments.