Be sure they are sized as shown in the graphic above.
The size on the left is for the backing, if you want to cover the back in felt or paper. It is the full size of the ornament. The sizes on the right are for the inside of the front. There's a small "lip" around the ornament, the size on the right will fit inside of that.
These are specifically the Satori Arabesque tiles, 15 in a 12x12 sheet, for $5.98, from Lowes. Search for Anatolia Tile Hudson White Lantern Mosaic Wall Tile
Note - the marble version are 3x the price of the white version.
For those asking about weight, they are much lighter than the look - weighing roughly 3 ounces.
Ideas for covering the back:
Adhesive felt
Paper
Adhesive felt
Paper
For Hanging:
You can simply glue ribbon or string to the back
My husband said he has a special ceramic drill bit if I want a hole in the top (but I haven't tried it yet)
If you cannot find the tiles - you could make them from salt dough!
I made Easter Egg ornaments from Salt dough, cutting a paper stencil with cricut to cut the shapes and then running a knife around the inside of the stencil to cut the dough - it would work for these shapes too . https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2020/03/easter-salt-dough-ornaments-with-vinyl.html
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Free SVGS For on The Lantern,
or Arabesque, Tiles:
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Find more free grinch svgs here:
For Grinch Green Spray Paint, Try:
Krylon - Jungle Green
Rustoluem - Tropical Leaf
NOT an svg - but this teacher used the children's fingers to make snowman ornaments
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A Free layered paper version
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NOT FREE
(But Great Examples!)
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No idea where this photo is originally from - but look at that gorgeous topper!
This is a good example showing that really ANY free svg can be used on these:
Find an index of free Christmas SVGS here:
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The Christmas Index
Where To Find: Free Christmas SVGS By Theme (Nativity, Grinch, A Christmas Story, Etc), Where To Find Free Christmas SVGS By Project (Gift Tags, 3D Paper, Earrings, etc) and Where To Find Free Christmas Project Tutorials & Gift Ideas. Including an entire extra index just for making Christmas Ornaments. Find it all here:
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Arabesque
by Emma Lazarus
On a background of pale gold
I would trace with quaint design,
Penciled fine,
Brilliant-colored, Moorish scenes,
Mosques and crescents, pages, queens,
Line on line,
That the prose-world of to-day
Might the gorgeous Past's array
Once behold.
On the magic painted shield
Rich Granada's Vega green
Should be seen;
Crystal fountains, coolness flinging,
Hanging gardens' skyward springing
Emerald sheen;
Ruddy when the daylight falls,
Crowned Alhambra's beetling walls
Stand revealed;
Balconies that overbrow
Field and city, vale and stream.
In a dream
Lulled the drowsy landscape basks;
Mark the gleam
Silvery of each white-swathed peak!
Mountain-airs caress the cheek,
Fresh from the snow.
Here in Lindaraxa's bower
The immortal roses bloom;
In the room
Lion-guarded, marble-paven,
Still the fountain leaps to heaven.
But the doom
Of the banned and stricken race
Overshadows every place,
Every hour.
Where fair Lindaraxa dwelt
Flits the bat on velvet wings;
Mute the strings
Of the broken mandoline;
The Pavilion of the Queen
Widely flings
Vacant windows to the night;
Moonbeams kiss the floor with light
Where she knelt.
Through these halls that people stepped
Who through darkling centuries
Held the keys
Of all wisdom, truth, and art,
In a Paradise apart,
Lapped in ease,
Sagely pondering deathless themes,
While, befooled with monkish dreams,
Europe slept.
Where shall they be found today?
Yonder hill that frets the sky
"The last Sigh
Of the Moor" is named still.
There the ill-starred Boabdil
Bade good-by
To Granada and to Spain,
Where the Crescent ne'er again
Holdeth sway.
Vanished like the wind that blows,
Whither shall we seek their trace
On earth's face?
The gigantic wheel of fate,
Crushing all things soon or late,
Now a race,
Now a single life o'erruns,
Now a universe of suns,
Now a rose.
