DZ Christmas Tree and Ornaments

During Christmas time I decided I wanted a pink and green Delta Zeta Christmas tree. I love what I've created so much that I now leave it up all year around! Below are pictures of my creations.

I even used green Christmas lights to fit the theme!

This ornament is made out of a stiffened felt. I cut it out using letters I had found and printed online and then outlined the letters in pink glitter glue.

Because our chapter does a lot for recycling, I made a recycled ornament out of a thin cardboard. The turtle was a rubber stamp I stamped onto Kelley green paper. I painted the spots on the turtle with acrylic paint. The arrows were done with a sharpie paint pen and then outlined in clear glitter glue.

I purchased some inexpensive pink Christmas balls and painted the Greek letters "Delta Zeta" on the ball as well as green polk-a-dots with a Kelley green paint pen.

Decorated Cookie Mix Jars

When trying to figure out a fun an inexpensive gift to make for a lot of my sorority sisters at once, I decided that making cookie jars might be the perfect gift.

To make these jars, you will need the following:

• mason jars with lids
• ribbon
• rubber band
• enough fabric to cover the top of the jar (a 1/4 yd will be plenty to make a couple of jars
• sharpie paint pens--i used pink and green for my sorority colors (i love this brand because they have always been successful paint pens---i have used other pens that were messy and hard to work with)
• black sharpie ultra fine tip permanent marker
• ingredients for your layered cookie mix (i searched online for a recipe and chose a layered butterscotch cookie mix for my jars)

To make these jars is pretty self explanatory if you are a long time crafter like myself, but I will include a brief description on how i made these. First, I painted the greek letters on the jars. I just free-handed the letters because I have writen the greek letters many times for other projects.  After my base-coat was dry, I embellished the letters with stripes or polk-a-dots using the opposite color (if green was my base i used pink for stripes or if pink was my base i would use green for polk-a-dots). Then i outlined the letters (after they were dry) with the black sharpie. It took me a couple of coats of the paint pens to make the letters looked just right.  After the jar is dry, I filled it with my cookie mix and closed the lid. Then I finished up the jars by covering the lid with fabric, placing the rubber band around the fabric on the lid, and tying a ribbon around it.