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Potpourri Pine Cone Angel Ornament

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This is an easy homemade Christmas craft that uses potpourri and a pine cone as the basis for a fragrant pinecone angel Christmas ornament.

We also have a new Woodland Pinecone Angel made from a pinecone and dried leaves.

Pinecone Angel Ornament

Supply List:

one "open" pine cone with spaces large enough to take inserted potpourri

chunky potpourri with enough of one color of flower to use as stuffing all around the pine cone

glue gun and gold glitter glue sticks, or alternatively craft clue and gold glitter

1" wooden bead

black permanent marker

green silk flower leaves for the wings - I used the leaves from a silk rose

optional: doll hair if you prefer not to use potpourri for this

Pine Cone Angel:

Warm up your glue gun and go!

1. Use the marker to draw simple facial features on the wooden bead as shown. The eyes are like commas laid sideways; eyebrows, nose and mouth are just shallow arches.

2. Position the bead on top of the pinecone. You may be able to use the uppermost part of the pinecone to push through the hole in the bead to anchor it in place; if not, secure with hot glue.

3. Now begin pushing potpourri flowers in between the spiral layers of the pinecone, filling all the spaces you can. Just beneath the head, position two potpourri seedpods as arms.

4. Glue on the leaves to form wings at the back of the head. My rose leaves were joined in a group of a three, and I rolled up the third one, gluing it in place so that a thread to hang the ornament can be strung through it.

5. Heat the glue gun, and smooth some gold glitter glue over the head where you want to position hair. Either sprinkle the wet glue with small leaves of potpourri or use it to secure doll hair.

6. Use the glue gun to outline in gold glitter glue the veins and outline of the leaves.

7. Add gold glitter glue to the edge of each spiral layer of pinecone "petals" and the edges of the seed pod "arms." Don't worry about the glue "strings" - these can easily be removed by nails scissors or tweezers when the glue is dry.

8. Make larger dots of glue to form the suggestion of hands in gold gloves at the end of each seed pod. You can do this in two or three stages, allowing the glue to dry in between each addition until it is built up to the size you like.

9. Choose a sizeable flower to glue to the top of the head and use the glitter glue to make a circular halo on top of the flower.

Secure a hanging thread at the back of your potpourri pine cone angel to display as a Christmas tree trim, or leave as is to sit on a table.