I’ve been seeing a lot of salt dough ornaments on the internet lately and I have to admit, they look a lot cooler than they did when I was in kindergarten. Lots of shapes, different kinds of paint and texturizing with rubber stamps. Salt dough is super easy and cheap to make and most likely you have all the ingredients necessary in your kitchen.
Salt Dough
Ingredients
- 1 cup flour
- 1/2 cup salt
- 1/2 cup water
Cooking Directions
- Mix ingredients together. Add additional flour if it\'s too sticky, or additional water if it\'s too crumbly.
It’s no secret around here that I love woodgrain. It just looks so..natural. So I decided to combine the two and make some woodgrain textured ornaments. Earlier in the year I bought this large woodgrain rubber stamp that I never used. I love it, but haven’t had a use for it, until now.
Supplies: salt dough, rolling pin, extra flour, cookie cutter, rubber stamp, straw, sand paper
Lightly flour your surface and roll out your dough to ¼ to ½ an inch thick. Then lightly flour the top of the dough. Place the rubber stamp on the dough and then push down hard and evenly. Then push down again..It seemed to take a lot of pressure to get a really good imprint of the woodgrain. Carefully lift off the stamp. Use your cookie cutter to make your shapes and your straw to make a hole at the top.
To dry the ornament, I put them on a cookie sheet and stuck them in the oven for a couple hours at 200°, turning them over every 30 minutes or so. Then I left them out overnight. Truly, they take a couple days to completely dry.
I then used a fine grit sanding block to smooth the edges, then I spray painted them with two coats of glossy white paint. I considered rubbing some brown or green paint into the grooves, but ultimately decided to leave them white.
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Making salt dough ornaments even as I write. I’m really wishing I had that woodgrain stamp after seeing this! Very nice!
I love that these are so simple modern and cute! I would love you to share them at The Corson Cottage for our {Home for the Holidays} link party ~ Carrie
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Loving these! That wood grain stamp could have so may neat uses, thanks for sharing!
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I’m glad you left them white! These are so simple and elegant! Love!
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I’m also glad that you left it white. This was a great use for your stamp! This is a really easy yet beautiful craft.
Clicked over from Swapbot to see if you had posted about how you made your great ornaments! What a neat technique. I’m definitely going to have to try some stamped clay ornaments myself. Thanks!
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This looks awesome! Great idea!
You are my kind of Christmas crafting genius.
So glad I found your project via Centsational Girl.
I would love for you to visit DTA as I am in the midst of a “Gifts You Can Make” series.
Be merry and bright!
I love the whole woodgrain trend and your simple woodgrain Christmas decorations are fantastic.
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Adding the woodgrain to the clay was such a great idea. I really love how these turned out!
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These are so cute! Great job … pinning them for next year
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What a GREAT use of that stamp!! I love this. Thanks SO much for sharing it at the Winter Wonderland party over at my place!!
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