Day 27: Scrabble ornaments

Welcome to Transformation Thursday! It’s the one day of the week we all get together to celebrate getting stuff done. No matter if you’ve been coming around for months (or years), or this is your very first transformation rodeo – everyone is welcome to link up your projects at the bottom of this post.

With the combination of a Scrabble kick plus cooler weather landing upon the south this week, my mood has turned from Halloween to Christmas in the blink of an eye. Maybe it’s because our open house at Peacock Lane is November 5th, or maybe because I started on Halloween way back when it was still 100 degrees outside. No matter, we’re gonna start Christmas, m’kay? After making Scrabble Magnets, I wanted to use them in different ways, so ornaments came to mind. You’ll need ribbon, hot glue & a gun, tiles, scissors & a lighter (or lit candle.)

Start with the ribbon still on the spool & just melt the end to keep it from fraying.

Next lay out your word long ways, and fold up your ribbon until it comes to the 2nd from the top. You don’t want to go all the way up, just kinda eyeball it.

Hot glue the ribbon down, so it’s double thick. It works much better than just one layer.

Run a strip of hot glue up the doubled ribbon. Put the last letter down and slide it close to the bottom (maybe 1/4-1/2 inch from the end of ribbon. Take the next letter and place it a little above the bottom letter, then smush & slide it so that a dab of hot glue oozed the two together. Do the same for all the letters except the very first one (because the first letter of the word is the last letter you’ll place.)

Use the tile as a measurement device, then cut the ribbon and treat it with the lighter again. Cut it long enough so you can double it, put the tile on top PLUS have a 1/2 inch loop for hanging.

Then hot glue the ribbon down to have space for the remaining letter, plus a loop for hanging.

Don’t forget the loop!

Once the ribbon is hot glued down, then hot glue the tile on top like the others.

Scrape off any hot glue oozes with your fingernail once they’re cool. Please, please for the love of 1st degree burns – WAIT until it’s cool!

Ta da! You’re done :) It takes longer to read this post than to make them, there’s a lot of steps, but it goes very quickly.

I’m dreaming of a word tree… wonder if Mr. SCC will mind?

Oh! And don’t forget that the Coffee Creations party is this Tuesday!

Sooooooo……. whatcha got? I wanna see – and so does everybody else! Please put your PERMALINK into the linky – and link back here so everyone can find all the great ideas. Please, please, PLEASE – pretty please DO NOT LINK TO A SHOP!!! Be sure to visit your neighbors and have fun – it is a party after all. *Please note: If you link up you are giving me permission to use your photos on my blog without contacting you (don’t worry, it’s only to show off your beautiful stuff!)*

Welllllllll…………. Let’er rip, tater chip!