knitting ball ornaments and prizes

I saw this post on Craftster.org and I just had to try it, I bought some Styrofoam balls and used some leftover acrylic yarn. following her tute, I hot glued one end of the yarn onto the ball, wrapped until fully covered, then hot glued the end of the yarn. I poked ornament hangers into the ball and formed a loop with them at the top, adding a beaded embellishment to the hook. Then I cut down some bamboo skewers I had, hot glued a wood bead to the end, then painted and added a rhinestone to the hole at the top of the wood bead

I'm not sure which look I like better

I think I have finished up most of my cards, now I just want to print out a little note to everyone to slip in there and sign them, I couldn't find any Christmas related stamps at Joanns so I bought a set of letter stamps, and I actually stamped Merry Christmas in individual letters on most of these cards, yikes, am I crazy, here is how some of them turned out

There were a couple that said Merry Christmas on the fronts so I added some foam stickers inside instead of the stamps

Also in other news, I won a contest over at Knitterella
this is the first contest I've ever won!!
She has a great blog, go check it out when you get a chance
I won a set of her knitting note cards, the new variety pack, they are so cute, and I plan to use them when I give away knitting gifts,

And lastly I want to share with you a little wip I found recently when cleaning, I just finished the seams and added a little flower on the front, then bent some wire to make a hanger, Im not sure what to do with it but its super cute

I used a pattern from Weekend Knitting by Melanie Falick, its the egg cozy pattern, I had some yarn left over one day at work and decided to use it for this pattern, since I had no other work with me at the time