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How to Make Glass Ball Christmas Ornaments
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Here's a satisfying way to use up left-over craft supplies and other decorations to make one-of-a-kind glass glass ball Christmas ornaments.
Use bits and pieces left over from other crafts to make this assortment of glass Christmas balls. Assemble your supplies, put on some Christmas music, and get the kids to help you make your own unique tree trims.
On this page, we provide directions for the glass balls shown on our little tree. The larger Recycled Christmas card ornaments are easy to make as well - and a great way to re-use old Christmas cards!
Glass Ball Christmas Ornaments
Supplies:
Glass Ball Decorations:
Don't be limited by these ideas! Try recycling older ornaments and decorations, and using some of the saved embellishments inside these glass balls.
1. Bead Ball Fill ball with layers of crystal beads, pearls, or seed beads or recycle costume jewellery beads.
2. and 3.Feather Balls
Snip feathers to fit each ball, and tuck inside the glass. Use the fluffy bottom of the feathers for best effect and shake in some glitter if desired.
4. and 5. Tinsel Balls
Cut small pieces of tinsel garland and push inside each ball until lightly packed.
6. and 7. Marbelized BallsDrizzle two or three colors of paint inside each ball, letting paint drip down the sides. Seal top with your finger and shake until paints mix in a pleasing design.
8. Iridescent BallStart feeding an iridescent pipe cleaner into a glass ball until filled, then trim off the excess and cap.
9. Lace BallFill ball with a scrap of Christmas lace, or any pretty lace with metallic accents to catch the light.
10. Eraser BallPut a small amount of tinsel or a piece of metallic pipe cleaner in the ball. Slide in a small candy cane eraser.
11. Glitter ballDrizzle in a small amount of glitter paint and shake until the inside of ball is covered. Turn ball upside down and let any excess paint drain out before capping.
I just got through making photo ornaments for my family. I just printed the picture on a regular paper and then cut it out. Then I took a couple of pieces of Double stick tape and taped it to Transperancy Film (this will help it to uncurl) - be careful to not use to much tape because it will stay curled. I then cut it again leaving a little point on the top to help it stay in place in the ornament (the point will be in the neck of the ornament so it will not be seen). Then I rolled it up and put it in. To me, it is better than just printing on the Transperancy because I never could get the picture to show up once it is hanging on the tree. Hope this helps.
Marbelized balls...what kind of paint should I use?
we are trying to find out where to buy the supplies in order to make the round christmas tree balls with the photos inside .also what materals do we need, we did this 10 years ago but no one in our area seems to know anything about this . please help if you can
JIM
The best balls to make and by far the prettiest - but besst made by adults- are from tiny feathers of birds. Emus from farms or duck feathers that have some color. Glue the feathers on in a circle starting at the bottom of the ball. Overlap the feathers as you slowly work your way to the top. They are very beautiful balls.
have you tryed popcorn in the balls and if so does it last? or at some point do bugs and other nasties get to it?
(20 pop corn kerrnels in the ball then microwave)
My daughter and I made the picture balls years ago after a Carol Duval show. We used Thin acetate sheets to glue the pictures onto and rolled on a pencil to drop into ball. (the bigger the ball the bigger the picture). we decorate the outside with texture snow dripping down the ball, etc. These were our gifts that year to all family members (they refuse to accept store bought gifts from us expecting craft gifts). These were fun and easy to do. We did not clean the inside and have had no problems with mold, etc. this was 20 years ago, when my daughter was young, of course the only thing inside the ball was the picture. New great granddaughter so new balls to be made.
Can you tel me how to do the picture oranament balls please.Thanks.
how do make them the photo in the glass ornmemts. please reponse. thanks
Dear Sharon,
I once saw this type of ornament years ago, and have been wanting to find out how to make them for the past 8 or so years, I looked for information on how to make them ever since,(with No luck), until now, Is there a possiblity that I could get help from you to be able to make them, I would so appreciate it .... P.S. I am a single Grammy raising my 10 yr.old Grandaughter, waiting for S.S. but no luck yet, so if there are any other types of crafts that you know of that are inexpensive to make, I surely would like to try to make them, Thank you for your time and every thing, I truly hope to hear from you, So with that I will close, with a Holiday prayer to you, May God Bless You and Yours this Christmas, and the whole year through. HAPPY HOLIDAY'S. GOD BLESS.
Sincerely,
Debbie.
exactly how do you get the photo to uncurl and lay nicely in the ornament?
