Recycled Christmas Card Ornament!

You will need:

A stick of old christmas cards

A 2 inch hole punch (10 dollars Micheals) 

A glue stick 

ribbon 

glitter glue (optional) 

Cardboard Triangle cut out to use as a folding guide. 

Here I have a stack of some of the images I punched out of old Christmas cards.  They are already folded appropriately which I do using a small cardboard triangle as my guide to make sure all three corners are folded equally.  Then I glue five pieces together.  This is the bottom. Or top really. 

The same goes for the top, but you should leave some room to pull through the ribbon

Gluing piece by piece like a puzzle for the body and connecting the top and bottoms, you will need twenty punched out circles in total.  Once finished, you can use the glitter glue to paint the edges of the cards for a bit more flare.

Origami Unicorn Necklace charm ( or bracelet)

 OK you need some origami skillz for this one but really making this one dimentional unicorn is very easy.  Practice making bigger ones until you are comfortable enough to do a tiny enough design for a necklace charm.  The Origami paper I used, I bought in Japan, and is soft and thin paper so it is very easy to fold into tiny designs

Its best to make quite a few charms and origami designs that you want to plasticize.  This is because you don't want to waste any crystal resin.  I use very little of the crystal resin mixture I have and just painted in on with a paint brush.  I painted on about three layers.  The charms I made took a good two days to completely harden.  

Besides the Origami paper and resin you will need some pliers, a hook for the necklace and something for that hook to attach to that in turn is attached to the unicorn.  The above picture is what I use and can be bought at Micheals or any crafting store that offers supplies for jewelry making.  I choose silver but they are available in god as well. 

Once the charm has hardened half way (after a day) you can slip in the metal circle part and even add another layer of resin.  This method is very tedious, but if you wait for the charm to completely harden, you will have to hot glue the metal piece to the back of the charm instead of neatly tucking it into the folds.  It just looks nicer.  Once the charm is completely hardened you can attach the hook to string on a necklace or bracelet.