Carve Your Own Treasured Holiday Ornaments

Get inspired to create a wonderful collection of handmade holiday decorations for a child or grandchild to treasure. Popular woodcarving teacher and author Betty Padden shows how to carve memorable ornaments to keep or give to family and friends.

Imagine a tree decorated with your own beautifully carved angels, elves, polar bears, poinsettias, and more. You're sure to have a merry carving experience with these fun projects, color photographs, and original patterns.

Step-by-step projects are divided into three categories--beginning, intermediate, and advanced. A special section on painting covers basic concepts of blending, highlighting and shading, so that even a novice can get great results.

The best ornaments on the holiday tree are always those that are handmade. Giving these hand-carved Christmas ornaments will be almost as much fun as making them!

Get inspired to create your own beautifully carved ornaments, with:
- 6 complete step-by-step projects, arranged by skill level
- 23 original patterns for delightful Christmas ornaments
- Angels, elves, polar bears, snowmen, poinsettias, and more
- Painting tips for highlighting, shading, brushes, and mixing colors
- Festive ideas to hang on a branch or display on a shelf