We made ornaments for family this year out of empty Fancy Feast cans (the little ones) for a Christmas craft this year.
I haven’t seen this done too often but they are the perfect size for tiny tree-sized shadow boxes. Here are the supplies I used:
- Cat food cans
- Red velvet ribbon
- Gold gimp braid
- Scissors
- 48lb photo paper
- 3x5 Thermal laminating pouches
- An iron + pillowcase (or laminating machine)
- Glue (hot glue and/or clear Tacky glue)
- Glue stick
- Glossy Mod Podge
- Cotton balls
- Floral greenery scraps
- Cardboard scraps
I started by taking a picture of the kids and removing the background using Lightroom’s AI. Pretty futuristic stuff. I printed a bunch and then cut them out.
I put the photos inside the laminate sheets, put the sheets inside a cotton pillowcase, and sealed it with a hot iron.
They came out a little bumpy but good enough.
We crushed the sharp edge of the can down with pliers. I glued the gimp braid over the crushed edge with Tacky Glue.
Charlie picked out a pretty mountain background and we printed out little circles of that and glued it to the bottom of the can. Then coated with Mod Podge for shine and longevity.
Then I unraveled a cotton ball and glued half of it to the bottom.
I cut some strips of cardboard and hot glued them into little rolls. I made these small enough to hide behind the kids photo, to separate it from the background.
I hot glued these rolls to the back of the laminated photos, and glued a bit of greenery to the front.
Then I glued the other side of the cardboard to the background and glued the rest of the cotton ball snow down on top of it.
Last I glued a red velvet ribbon around the outside with a little loop at the top for a hook, and added a matching bow.
