Now that Thanksgiving has passed in North America my family has moved it's focus onto Christmas.  In preparation for creating some new ornaments this year I picked up a package of these Styrofoam balls from the craft store and I decided to decorate each of them differently, and this is the first ornament.

I dug through my fabric stash for some white background fabric and came up with these three patterned fabrics: houndstooth, polka-dot, and a light cream with some screen printed white flowers on it.

Supplies-

• Gelatos^®: Metallic Grape
• Craft Mat
• Fabric
• Styrofoam ball
• Spatula
• Water
• Hot Glue Gun & Glue

I started off by ripping my fabric into about 1" strips. 

I took my Gelato and scribbled it all over my craft mat, not minding the little chunks that were there.

Next, I sprayed a lot of water onto the Gelatos and used my spatula to blend it together as I smashed out the chunks. I also gave the fabric strips a good spritz.

I then took all of the fabric strips and kneaded them into the diluted Gelatos. 

I then let all the strips dry by tossing them on my craft mat as I used my heat gun on them.

I love how all of them turned out, but the fabric with the flowers on it was my favorite since the screen printing acted as a resist to the diluted Gelatos.

After heating up my glue gun I began wrapping the Styrofoam ball with the dyed fabric alternating the patterns and directions I wrapped.

I also hot glued a ribbon onto it as well so I could hang it on my tree.

Stay tuned to my blog for how I decorated the remaining ornaments!

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