It’s no secret at all that I love Christmas decor, like “big-vinyl-sticker-I-heart-Christmas” love Christmas decor. Lol, I’ve made so many Christmas crafts, ornaments, and decor pieces over the years but honestly, I’m sorely lacking in photos and videos of so many of them! I also lost a lot of footage and image files. I’ve already sulked and cried about it … moving on.

I’m going to do my best to share pics of the older projects that I’ve worked on, but, like this project, I do not have any before or step-by-step photos. But I will share what I have for this one and any other of the older projects, and for the more current and future projects – because let’s be honest we all know there will be more to come – I am much better at documenting with photos and videos. What’s that saying about repetition?

Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, let’s get to this blog post’s topic: Christmas ornament ball trees and wreaths!

Let’s start with the Christmas Ornament Trees, these were mini trees I had the best time making. I chose different color themes and sizes. These made excellent tabletop decorations, standing on the fireplace hearth, and great little gifts.

For the base, I tried out a few different materials: the cardboard spherical cones, and the styrofoam cones, and I even tried shaping leftover cardboard into a cone and stuffing the inside with craft paper (newspaper will do too) to keep the shape.

For the balls, I gathered a variety of ornament ball sizes and glued them in a freestyle manner on the cone. I used hot glue and bravery because the fingertips did take an ‘L” or two, not going to lie. LOL.

For some of the trees, I added a little bit of tinsel or garland to sprinkle in and create a bit more fullness.

One note of caution, some of the ornament balls have glitter so be prepared for a glittery sparkly mess!