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hi, friends. welcome back to cyber monday, with myself, sara and missed jo pearson. this -- ms. jo pearson. this is a quirky little christmas. naturally we are going to be making minis. there like christmas miniatures. we are going to be creating some funky trees. they are very vintage looking. you can make up your own words. yeah. it's just a few different materials. and then of course the little miniatures that you are going to put inside of there. the first step we are going to do is making these trees.

which the little trees, i absolutely love them. they remind me of the '50s. and so we're going to change the color. they come in packs. we have the big ones that come in a pack of five or six. and then the minis. this is magic. you're going to watch magic happen right before your eyes. we're going to take a piece of palette paper, and i'm going to show you on the big tree so you can see what happens. were going to be using alcohol inc., which is what the magic is.is. while you all are watching out there, if you have any questions you want to ask us, please look at the messages on the bottom of your screen. we would love to hear from you. we will try to answer any question you have weather on this project or just another question that you h ave. sara, look. it's magic.

i'm going to start dripping that alcohol ink from the top of the trees. the way the tree is -- going to start moving this to the end and it will start changing colors. absorbing its down in there. it is. anna wants to know, what kind of paint that you are using? this is actually alcohol ink. so it's kind of a watery ink. and it is alcohol-based. so not really for the kids to use, but you could do this for them and let it dry. what's really cool about this alcohol ink is you can use it like this is something really unusual to use it on because

it's just so fun. it absorbs into the fibers. but you can use it on metal, wood, chipboard, you could use it on fabric. but it's a little bit different. got to change the colors. it's just so beautiful. the dry time is important to let it completely dry. since it is an ink, it will stain. you can wear gloves if you plan on getting this on your fingers. but today, we are just dripping this on here. you just drop it from the top and it pretty much absorbs all the way down. you could take a small bottle of alcohol, which we sell with the alcohol ink, it's going to break up and let it run. it comes in a spritzer bottle. when you look for this in your michaels store, it's going to be in the scrap booking department.

and it comes three colors to a package. so you pick out every color. you have to have it all. something else that is works fabulously on, the porcelain ornaments. dri-fit on there and it makes puddles. drop the colors. -- drip it on there. so it's beautiful. we have some that are already dried. we are going we are going to take a mason jar. the mason jar -- this is the comeback kid. they are everywhere in case you haven't seen them. on pinterest and in stores.

we're going to build a little seen -- scene. this smooth jar doesn't have any ornaments -- any writing on it. so it is perfectly clear. if you find one with writing on it, you can turn it on, so it moves to the side. we're using a medium-sized mason jar. we have large ones with the big sparkly tree. just as it is. we added a little bit of sparkly ribbon, tinsel again, just nostalgic christmas look. i mentioned the porcelain ornaments. just to let you know, they are on sale, 50% off. there's different shapes. crosses and balls and ornament shapes. if you're going to try that, it's just so cool, drop the alcohol ink on the porcelain ornament. and if puddles and it does the work for you. -- it puddles.

i'm going to glue this piece into the ring so that it is secure. this is what you're going to put a piece of styrofoam down in. so these are not meant to put water in. these ones are actually just going to be waterless snow globes. a lot of these materials we are using would start to come apart and dissolve in water unless you seal them -- that's a whole 'nother process. we are going to shake some glitch in there and still play with them. that's just for decoration only. ryan wants to know if you can mix different colors of the alcohol ink. they look beautiful when you make some together. they will blend, dropping them on porcelain,

they just start -- the lines blur a lines blur a little bit. a puddle in together. i would start with the dark color first. and then at the light color to it. if you mess up, the great thing is the bottle of clear alcohol, you could scored the whole thing and start over and it would wipe it o ff. so we like that. we could probably take this. i love them just -- bright colors, the way they are. we saw the green. but i wanted a pink one. this is a piece of styrofoam, one of the shapes i used earlier.

cut it in half. we are going to hot glue it down into the mason jar. your edges look really rounded. what did you do? aside from secret -- the styrofoam secret. so if you fit it in here and you see that there's going to be too much of styrofoam, your jar won't fit on top, just take it out, and you're going to use the other piece of styrofoam and just take it around the edge, just really smooth and acts as sandpaper. that's cool.

we make the bottom a little smaller so it will fit in there. you do have to make sure when you are putting this be -- putting the piece of styrofoam down, -- you did. you put -- you are jumping ahead. i'm getting ahead of ms. sara. you've got to glue your styrofoam down securely. we are using hot glue. anything with styrofoam, hot glue, if it is too hot, it will melt your styrofoam. if you're not worried about that, it's on the bottom of their. -- there. so it looks like snowy hills. so we're going to take some mod podge. we put this on everything and it looks vintage. so we're going to take -- this crystal glitter like this is the closest thing to german glass glitter.

but it is not glass. chunky, still see through. it's really beautiful. there's not a wrong way to decorate the top of your styrofoam. we want it to look like a winter wonderland inside of their. i added a little bit to the top. you are using mod podge? i'm using mod podge. and this is just gloss mod podge, but you could use the sparkle, which we love. peggy wants to know, can i use any kind of mod podge? you could even shake this on top of here and it will sit on top.

and you can shake up your snow globe. having a little bit of it stick is -- we kind of like that so that we sprinkle a little bit on top and it's really -- it sparkles. we are going to at our tree. these trees -- they come in a little stand. you're welcome to glue the stand right on top of there. so i pull it -- so now we need a little wire. wire cutters, you can pull it out of the base. we're going to get some hot glue. add it to the bottom. and just shove it right in the styrofoam. that's an official turn too. [laughter] that's one of those technical terms. whatever you want, put it right in the middle. and then now we're going to add --

that's so cute. the little mama and baby gear. -- deer. we have the teeny tiny sled. and so we have the christmas minis in the store right now. we've got little snowmen and a s led. that's my favorite, the deer. all of the holiday minis our 40% off all week. you know what? if you were to go to somebody's house for a housewarming, just sometimes fun to take someone a little housewarming gift or something. and take that to them. we are putting a little bit of hot glue on the bottoms of the feet in case a kid comes and grabs your snow globe,

shakes it around. they're not going to fall out. that would be sad. are you going to put the snowflakes down in there? i want to put more of this glitter down in there. so when i shake it -- put it inside of the jar. so everything is pretty secure in here. just for a few minutes before you shake it around too much. i won't put a lot. that's kind of a lot. is that too much?you can't have too much. what would you like? i'm going to put this together.

is that okay? everything is glued in place. the best way is to just put it down in there. it's really important to make sure that you have a clear edge around your styrofoam so that your jar will actually twist whenever you put it in. don't get that far and realize it doesn't work. it's kind of all in -- that would be embarrassing. i love it. it's going to snow. shake it around.

some of that snow state on the tree. looks fabulous. or you could put some glue on the tree and a little on the deer so that it looks like it's been snowing. we are going to embellish the bottom because the ring is a little lackluster. we're going to have some g litter. this is over in holiday trimmed too. secret, there's actually wire in there. did you leave the wire in there? i would recommend pulling it out because we are going to hot glue i t. you can include with the wire in. use double-sided tape for that. pulling the wire out -- we're going to get enough to wrap around. this is cute too. look at the little pom-poms. we're going to take our little piece of tinsel ribbon. if you push down, you can find the wire. pull it out.

easy like that. i made you a bow. it will wrap easier and it won't feel like popping off and hitting you in the face. thank you. i'm so glad i didn't get hit in the head by a snow globe. we're going to put hot glue around the ring. it gets a little hot. but again, you can use double-sided tape. that's another great friend of mine. it is our friend. we have a lot of craft supplies. bow making queen made me a bow. you could wear it in your hair.

so you have your little minis in a jar. i do think this is one of my favorite, though. i love this. this tree comes like that. you don't have to put anything -- we glue did write to the base on the inside of the mason jar. -- we glued it right to the base. they are very popular again. we are going to make ornaments. i'm sure your kids would actually love them. this is not exactly your typical run-of-the-mill -- there a little funky. that's why i love them. i love animals. so we got these from the kids section, which obviously i frequent. i buy glitter. animals and everything. we got sea creatures, safari tubes,

because nothing says christmas like an octopus ornament. [laughter] that's my favorite one. we are making a hammerhead shark ornament. what's fun sometimes is we actually go to the store when we are working on a project, sometimes we have to just walk around the store and think out of that box. so we're out-of-the-box. we're so far out-of-the-box, we can't even see it. we have these plastic animals. and i'm going to find the one that i want, which is the hammerhead shark. obviously, he looks true to life, gray shark. that's not good enough for me. so i'm going to paint him.

the little tube animals are in the kids department. hanging on a little power panel. sometimes people have a hard time finding them but there's all kinds of different containers of these. so there's farm animals, individual, a bunch of different things. these are the perfect size. if you need 20 ornaments, buy 12 and you've got enough animals to do it. -- buy one tuba -- buy one tube. these can go on wood, paper, plastic, metal, anything with the martha stewart paint. really kind of cool. but again, now that it is december, not exactly perfect weather. the kids can paint these with the acrylic paint. we don't want the kids spray painting.

you need to do that in a well ventilated area outside. we're not doing that today. this is really the best way to paint these. once you've gotten a few coats on it, you want two or three coats unless you prime it. just because it was a darker color, i really wanted the vibrant hot pink of course. and so that's not all we're going to do. i have my pink hammerhead shark. he wants to be hot pink. and we're going to add glitter. you wouldn't use pink glitter, would you? thank you, joann. i'm going to -- you don't have to do this to all of your ornaments,

but some of them hang better if you add one of these little screw eyes to the top of that. just a tiny little screw with a loop on the top. some of their, there's no way to attach strings to. if it is round or something. this one actually has -- you don't have to drill a hole or anything on top of it. the plastic is pretty malleable. and i'm really strong. so i shoved it in there and screwed it in. that's where you are going to attach or string to. first, we're going to go back to the mod podge. it must be the atomic sweater that you have on that makes you so strong. i love it.you know what? this cute little tree right here, we have these in all different colors at the store.

they're going to be down in the aisle. if there's one that is hot pink -- is fuchsia hot pink. actually, you're hammerhead shark would get lost in it. so it really looks best on this little white tree. did you make that start on the top of the tree? i did. that's mind -- that's my little chenille stem attempt at a tree topper. and we used that in the mason jar project. yeah. this is that butcher's twine they call it. so i put mod podge all over my shark. we can do sections. hammerhead hot pink glitter shark. this is for the quirky crafter, don't want just a red or green ball this year. wants to branch out

or make it for your kids. ryan, thank you for your question, wants to know, can you paint the inside of the jar with alcohol ink? for my jar project i just did? absolutely. you could take your jar, put a few drops in there, hold it upside d own, add some of the alcohol solution, and then swirl it around and you will get a really cool swirl effect or land colors. and the more alcohol you add, the clearer it will be so you can see through it. you can make it as dark as you w ant. the glass ornaments that we did earlier with the glitter, you can't dribble it down in the glass ball. it swirls beautiful on metal too. whatever it is with the reaction with the metal, the chemical reaction. make it beautiful.

the little hammerhead -- we cannot leave him out. we're just going to add the mod podge. going to sprinkle glitter onto it. and you don't have to seal it or anything. it should be fine. this one here, we have added the screw on the top. and a bit of bakers twine. you can just buy a big role of it and then -- it comes in different colors. it has i think 25 little roles of different colors. which we have used different colors on the tree of course. to match the rainbow. when you were talking earlier about making your own tags, if you are really into punching out your own tag and put your own --

if you are bigger and giving somebody cupcakes, but i use it on sea creature ornaments as well. -- if you are a baker. when you put that twine on that other little hammerhead, don't you think -- fabulous earrings. subtly hinting that she wants hearings. they're going to go really well with that sweater -- not. i will make them to match. existing cutouts that we have on the christmas aisle in the store, and if you can't tell, i kind of like animals. little bit of an animal person. i'm going to do this really great wood plaque reindeer have that we have. we have big ones and little ones. i have some little ones that are already finished.

have to keep this little hammerhead somewhere because i know it's going to disappear. of course, we need a big one. there's going to be -- using acrylic paint, mod podge, and the magic word, if anybody knows it is glitter. because it is christmas. we are absolutely crazy with glitter. you know what? today, there's a 50 off coupon that you can use on any one item in the store. that's not on sale merchandise, so it is on regular priced item. because you don't have enough glitter. i have to tell you, it's time to buy more mod podge. i'm going to by that hard mod podge that we talked about earlier.

you can put it outside. that's great too. so it's a little would reindeer cut out. we're going to add some paint. and on the wood, you can pretty much use any type of paint. you want to paint the face? rudolph -- stayed out in the cold too long. turned blue. we're getting quirky, out-of-the-box. i love your little turquoise reindeer. you could do lime green, brown, --

fun little colors that you have here with the others. any acrylic paint is going to work fine. would does not really react with any any paint. -- wood does not really react with any paint. could i put it outside? i would not recommend -- the elements might wash some of your paint off. if you want to seal it with hard podge or buy a spray sealer, there's ones that we carry. just spray it really well and you could put it -- it would be safe underneath like an overhang or a porch or something. hang them from the trees like -- i know jo has some stuff hanging from her trees. they are not deer.

one coat should just about do i t. it takes -- it takes paint pretty well. can i ask you, do you paint the backs of your things? i do actually. there was a point in my life where i didn't know you were supposed to do that. and my -- my dear sweet friend, joann, corrected me. it's really not a correction. not like somebody has to do that but it's funny, sometimes when i get something from someone -- i i think it looks finished. it didn't take me but a couple minutes to paint the back and it looks finished. something else you should always do with your artwork, sign it.

absolutely. even if it is your initials, sign it and put your initials. joann made this, real big. and the edges. paint your edges and the back. you could do any color, spray paint it, you could use mod podge and scrapbook paper. that's another simple way for you to glue it on top. and then cut it out. so we have a dry one right here. and again, gold glitter. if you haven't learned by now, that's my favorite. we're going to do the face first. i really like these quirky -- i'm going to paint it, actually. i'm going to paint it. just take a little bit of white and black paint. you could put eyes on anything and bring it to life. i can't draw. so i always have to use like a sharpie.

you don't have to draw -- it's dot's and a lot of times i just use the bottoms of my paint brushes to make those things. circles and you could just draw a big smile on there. so there's a trade-off. i will make your bose, you paint my eyeballs. there you go. -- i will make your bows. painting eyeballs on my own reindeer. you can make my ornaments. so we're just going to paint little circles.

could you use this bouncer for that too? i'm doing things the hard way. you can draw and paint. for those of us who cannot make rounds circles, you could print out a little reindeer. you can glue your picture on here if you wanted to. you can glue my picture? [laughter] i'm not sure anybody wants my picture on the front of the reindeer. i'm sure your husband would like that. he's really cute. very simple. he's going to have a quirky little face. i'm not going to do a very realistic dear -- deer.

we're going to do little circles for eyes. you can use the hairdryer like we mentioned. just to speed up the process. what are you putting your painting stuff on? my favorite thing in the world. palette paper. -- it comes in a package. you can get it in a palette. and you can buy it in the art department. it's fabulous for putting all of your paint on. that's what you work off of instead of your tablecloth, i guess. your old tablecloth work great too. that's true. we just have a piece of brown paper -- be sure when you're painting and gluing and doing all those things, make sure you protect what you are on.

you don't want to be hammering on your dining room table. i took a bigger paint brush that has a larger tip on the bottom. dipped it in black paint and that makes a really quick circle. i can do that. we carry little tools called stylus that you can make all of the little dots of things. it does make it a -- perfect circles. sharpie marker. hello. just paint a little face. it's going to be -- if you don't like it, you don't have to do it like this. this is just the little creatures i like to make. kind of different sizes.

we have the large one here that you can hang up. and small ones, i was going to turn this into ornaments for my tree. we could stay in this too if you wanted it to be more natural looking and brown, you could put a stain on it. or water down some brown acrylic paint. if you want to antiques something, you don't have it, let's say you're doing this at 10:00 at night, michaels is closed, you can take brown paint and water it down a little bit. and always try it on something before you go head over heels and put on what you're going to do because you can always add more to it but you cannot take it up. you could let it dry and take sandpaper and do that. i need that tomorrow morning at 8:00. i'm doing that on christmas eve.

i know you've got some great questions out there for us. we love for you to ask them of us. and if it is when we are not on right here, you can call the 1(800)michaels helpline. and one of us -- we have little else that will answer your questions. you have to remember to leave your area code -- we have little elves. i've made great friends on the line but i hate when you -- when i can't answer your question. jo likes to talk on the phone. give her a call. the other thing is, remember that there are some great deals going on in the michaels stores today. actually, all the way up until christmas.

everything you could possibly want. $0.99 charges, red ribbon, 60% off on your ribbons, holiday ribbons. and there's a daily deal every day that is good for that one day. there's a daily deal that changes. there's not just one daily deal, there's lots of them. be sure and go to michaels.com. or get your flyer in the mail with all of that. so we are live again at 3:30 central time. so -- we still have to put glitter on the antlers. the mod podge has left me. i think it is with the crop-a-dile. pretty sure. sorry. it took off earlier.

it's like the dry that took our socks. again, i'm sure you all have this down by now. do a nice, sick, code of mod podge. i'm going to use the chunky glitter. so put the mod podge on and then sprinkle your glitter. and you know what? we've got a great little quirky christmas deer.we love it. we hope you join us again at 3:30. we've got more fun crafts. we'll be here.