How To Paint On Glass Ornaments

Learn how easy information technology is to pigment articulate plastic or glass Christmas ornaments using acrylic paint to create custom colored Christmas ornaments.

Howdy, Kenarry readers! I'1000 Pam from The Birch Cottage, and I'm back again this calendar month sharing with you but how easy it is to pigment articulate Christmas ornaments.

I dearest Christmas decorations, don't you? For some reason, I've been really excited about getting all my decorations up this year. My goal, yous meet, is to accept everything busy before Thanksgiving. Not because I want to skip or dishonor Thanksgiving, but because I want to have a stress-complimentary holiday season. I effigy the sooner I get all the decorations up, the sooner I can focus on all my Christmas gift making.

Then, today, I'd like to share a actually easy DIY Christmas ornament project with you. Although it takes some time considering y'all take to let the pigment dry out, yous can consummate this project in a matter of minutes. And so, let'south accept a await at just how to pigment Christmas ornaments. And, by the way, this will piece of work with both clear plastic bulbs and clear drinking glass bulbs.

How to paint articulate glass or plastic Christmas ornaments

A collage of step by step pictures showing you how to paint a Christmas ornament

You can use articulate drinking glass Christmas ornaments or articulate plastic Christmas ornaments for this project. They both piece of work as well. And so, let'southward take a look at what you'll demand.

What you need:

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Supplies needed:

clear drinking glass or plastic ornaments
DecoArt Americana Multi-Surface Satin Acrylic Paint (in colour of your pick)
paper towels
plastic cup or water bottle

Video Tutorial

I put together this quick petty video to testify you just how easy it is to paint Christmas ornaments.

Instructions:

ane. Remove the tops from the ornaments.

Before y'all can add pigment to the inside of your clear glass or plastic Christmas ornaments, yous will need to remove the caps. Yous but grab the band and pull information technology off and out of the decoration opening.

2. add paint to the ornaments.

Offset, for the all-time results, y'all'll desire to exist sure yous're using a fresh canteen of paint. If you have acrylic pigment that'southward been sitting on the shelf for some fourth dimension, it's probably best if you simply buy a fresh new bottle of paint. Plus, acrylic paints are really inexpensive and come up in all sorts of astonishing colors.

It's really easy to customize your Christmas ornaments. I chose white acrylic paint so I could create some Rae Dunn inspired ornaments at a fraction of the cost. (Although the Metallics paint is pictured in the below pictures, it is Not recommended for this projection.)

So, at present that you lot take a fresh bottle of acrylic pigment, be sure to shake it up really well.

Use acrylic paint for painting ornaments

So you lot will squeeze a niggling bit of pigment into the ornament. I like to add together about four squeezes and rotate the ornament each time. Just don't utilize as well much paint. You can always add more than, if needed.

Tilting ornaments to spread out the paint

three. Coil and tilt

Once you have about iv squirts of paint in your clear drinking glass or plastic Christmas decoration, you'll want to kind of tilt information technology and curlicue it around and then that the paint coats the entire inside of the ornament. It's also helpful to kind of tap the ornament against the palm of your hand.

Rolling an ornament around to paint the inside

4. Let the Ornaments Dry

Once you have the entire inside of the Christmas ornamentation coated with acrylic pigment, you'll desire to invert it upside downwardly. Excess paint will run out of the opening in the ornament, and then exist sure to residuum the ornament in or on something that you don't heed getting paint on.

My hubby made me these handy paintbrush holders. They are simply pieces of PVC that take been cutting to varying heights and glued to a pocket-size scrap piece of wood. You tin also use a plastic water bottle.

Letting the ornaments dry after painting them

Let the ornaments remainder upside down for 10 minutes. That should exist plenty time for the excess paint to run out. Later on 10 minutes, plow the ornaments right side upwards and permit rest some other 10 minutes. I typically rotate the ornaments back and along a few times and so leave the ornaments to dry overnight.

Ornaments resting upside down while they dry

5. decorate your ornaments

After your ornaments have dried, put the tops dorsum on and decorate as desired.

To finish off my painted ornaments, I simply tied some ribbon on to the meridian. I also used my Cricut machine to make some Rae Dunn inspired ornaments. I printed out the words "Joy, Noel and Peace" (I used this font) and affixed them to the fronts of the disc shaped clear ornaments that I painted white.

Pigment Tips

Subsequently quite a chip of trial and error on my function, I speedily discovered that not all acrylic paints are created equal. Hither are a few of my tips and recommendations:

Be certain to employ acrylic paint that is formulated for glass or plastic (depending on what ornaments you're using).
Don't use too much paint. Not only is it wasteful, just it will take a lot longer for your ornaments to dry.
Brand sure your ornaments are clean and dry.
Based on my personal experience, I can recommend the following paints:
- DecoArt Multisurface Satin Acrylic Paints
- DecoArt Americana Gloss Enamels

There are probably other brands of acrylic paints that volition piece of work well with this projection. These are the paints I take actually used and can adjure to the results. Again, merely be certain to read the manufacturer's label for best results.

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The painted Christmas ornaments really are an easy way to to add some inexpensive and custom colored Christmas ornaments to your home. Plus, there are all kinds of ways to go creative with the pigment.

Pam is the creative backside The Birch Cottage, a lifestyle blog with an emphasis on family-friendly DIY projects, recipes and tutorials. An accounting clerk past day and a cocky-proclaimed Pinterest addict past night, you are sure to detect creative ideas and meal inspirations at The Birch Cottage.

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