Making some more diy holiday decorations for Handmade Holidays from stuff I alrady had around the house, I came up with this Snowflake Mobile.

I broke some twigs into about 4 inch lengths and hot glued them together to create a snowflake shape. I then wound some pretty blue yarn around them and then some silver embroidery floss on top of that for a little sparkle. Used more yarn to hang them from a longer stick as well as to hang the mobile on the wall.

As I’ve written before, I’ve been trying to come up with fun diy holiday decorations from stuff that I already have, instead of buying more stuff.

I usually make snowflakes every year, but I decided to do them a little differently this year. I used some scrapbook sheets that I had on hand for the actual snowflakes. Then I affixed them to some old used manila folders to give them some stability and also create a sort of antiqued look. I think they turned out fantastic, what do you think?

The last of the holiday tutorials Amy the intern put together for Handmade Holidays.

1. Snow Globe from Craft Tutorials
2. Homemade Menorah from Sunset Magazine
3. Crochet Snowflake from The Australian Women’s Weekly
4. Santa Lucia Dolls from Posie Gets Cozy
5. Pinecone Elves from Martha Stewart
6. Stacked Christmas Trees from Tuesday To-Do

More of my diy Handmade Holidays decor—Junk Mail Glitter Snowflakes. I used those junk mail sale papers that come practically every day around the holidays to cut out my snowflakes. I then used some mod podge to glitterfy them and strung them on some hemp string. I also used glue dots to affix them to the string, so they wouldn’t just slide off.

What a great way to re-use that junk mail, if I do say so myself!

Making some more diy holiday decorations for Handmade Holidays, I created these winter trees.  I drew the tree and star, cut it out and used it to trace out some trees on white cardstock. I also hot glued some puffs on for ’snow’.

I actually made a template you can print out if you want to make your own trees. Print it out on cardstock, cut out your trees, cut along the middle cut lines & slide your trees together. Leave them plain or decorate them anyway you want. I suggest gluing on the star as well, otherwise it will fall off. Have fun!

Download FREE Winter Tree Template

Some more crafty goodness holiday tutorials Amy the intern put together for Handmade Holidays.

1. Teardrop Holiday Ornament from A Little Hut
2. Brown Paper Packages Garland from Scoutie Girl
3. Mitten Clips from Martha Stewart
4. Dreidel Plushie from Cut Out and Keep
5. Stitched Christmas Cards from CraftBlog