Easy Christmas Cardinal Ornament Tutorial

This is a surprisingly easy craft to make (once you've given needle felting a try). I'll show the basics of how to make it.....decorating it will be up to you and there are so many ways you can go about it. 

What you need:

roving in various colors

styrofoam ball

needle felting tools

~First, take a good amount of the base color you want to have the ornament be. Then wrap the ball in it and tack the roving into place. 

It should look like this.

~How you decorate it from there is up to you. I used some brown roving (you could also use brown yarn) and swirled it around the ball, adding some pine needles to it:

~Then I used red roving to make the shape of the cardinal, black around the birds face and an orangish reddish wool for the beak. 

It's really fun!

If you would rather not go through the whole process of making one of these..... I could always make one for you! :-) 

You can find them on my Etsy shop HERE. 

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