"Images of Winter" Hanging Tri-Domino Ornament by Leigh Snaith-Brunton
The Sharpie Domino Queen
Design Team Leader

Supplies:
3 Ivory dominoes (smaller than standard with spinners)
Holiday Quad Cube rubber stamp by Stampendous
Brilliance Peacock Pigment inkpad
Stampendous stickers - snowflakes, stars, holly, red circles
Ancient Page coal black dye inkpad
2 large plastic fancy beads
2 large crystal beads
6 medium crystal beads
Silver charm
Silver cord
Silver metallic paint pen - broad point
Judikins Diamond Glaze
Packing tape
Heat tool/embossing tool
Dremel and small drill bit
Vice/clamp
Pliers
Krylon glossy sealer

Directions:
For this project you need 3 new shiny ivory dominoes. This size of domino comes with the spinners in the middle. There's no need to pre-treat the surface of the dominoes in any way. Bleached or sanded dominoes will work just as well. Remove the spinners with pliers if you want to, but it's not necessary. Drill 2 holes right through the sides of all 3 dominoes for threading the cord through.

SAFETY TIP: To drill the holes set the domino in a vice/clamp to protect your fingers or use a drill press.

Create 'handles' for the dominoes by folding small pieces of packing sticky tape together and then sticking the ends to the front of the dominoes that have the dots.

Using the handle, pounce the dominoes up and down on the tri-colour. Brilliance ink pad to apply a good layer of ink. Do each domino separately, 1 on the light green, 1 on the darker green and finally 1 on the blue. The dominoes are all small enough to fit perfectly on the ink pad. Heat set the dominoes to dry the ink.

Stamp the 3 different holiday images from the stamp cube onto the dominoes with coal black dye ink. Press the dominoes onto the rubber stamp instead of the other way round and heat set.

Edge and colour the sides of the dominoes with a silver metallic paint pen. Embellish each domino with sparkly stickers that enhance the stamped backgrounds. I used stars on the pine cone domino, snowflakes on the snowflake domino and holly and a red circle sticker for the berry on the holly domino. Seal all 3 dominoes with Diamond Glaze.

Assemble the tri-ornament by threading silver cord through 1 medium crystal bead, then through the first domino. Add another crystal bead and another domino and so on until you've got all 3 dominoes and beads threaded. Leave about 2 inches of silver cord sticking out on both sides and cut the cord. Then do the same process for the second set of holes on the ornament.

Tie the ends of the cords from the top holes together and secure with about 2 knots and repeat on the second set. Bringing the dominoes together with the tied cords forms the tri-ornament shape. Trim the excess cords and add dabs of glue to the knots to ensure they don't unravel.

Cut a long piece of silver cord and thread one end through the large snowflake charm. Bring the 2 ends of the cord together and thread both ends through a large crystal bead. Then thread both ends through a large silver bead, up through the middle of the tri-ornament, through another large silver bead and finally through another large crystal bead. Pull the cord tight and knot twice to secure all the threaded beads in place. To make the ornament more secure add a small amount of glue where the large silver beads and dominoes touch before knotting the cord.

Determine how long you want the hanging cord and then knot at the top and trim off the excess cord.

TIP: I didn't have large silver beads on hand in the shape I needed so I used 2 coloured beads and coloured them with a silver metallic paint pen. Once the paint is dry spray them with a coat of glossy sealer.