Create Gorgeous Marbleized Christmas Ornaments With This Tutorial
I don’t know about you, but I love Christmas and Christmas colors. What better way to get in the Christmas spirit than to make your own ornaments? In this tutorial, I’ll walk you through making gorgeous, and super easy, marbleized ornaments. With just a few materials, you’ll be ready to rock that tree.
Tools and materials:
- Clear ornaments
- Cups
- Floetrol
- Acrylic paint in 4-8 different colors
- Water
- Foam block
- Popsicle sticks
- Ribbon
- Clear varnish or sealer
- Ribbon or wire
For this project, you’re going to be using the acrylic pour method, where you essentially pour the paint onto the ornament. First, though, you have to prepare the paint. Grab a cup and mix ⅔ Floetrol with ⅓ acrylic paint until fully combined. Then mix in just a bit of water to thin it out. The consistency should be like that of warm honey. Do this for all the colors you’re going to use. If you’re doing your project the same as mine, that’s seven colors.
Now you’re going to prepare the acrylic pour by simply pouring the different colors into a cup in the combination of your choosing. I made two different color combinations, both of which I love for Christmas. The first was gold, red, green, and white. The second was silver, blue, teal, and white. Just pour the colors into the cups, one after the other. Don’t mix them.
To stand up your ornaments for pouring, all you’ll need is a foam block with popsicle sticks stuck into it. Open up your ornaments and place them upside down onto the sticks. Make sure they’re spaced out so that they aren’t touching each other. Though no specific prep is needed on the ornaments, I do recommend just washing and drying them first to make sure there’s no dust or anything on them.
Now it’s time for the fun part. Grab your cup and just pour it over ornaments, starting from the top, in a circular motion. Make sure the whole ornament is covered in the paint mixture. I made four ornaments, two in each color combination. After you’re done, let them dry overnight.
Once your ornaments are completely dry, grab some clear varnish or sealer and spray all around the ornament. This will seal in the color and give you a glossy finish.
After your ornaments are sealed and dry, close them back up. Then take some ribbon or wire and add it to the ornament. You can use anything you want to hang them, but I personally like to use ribbon in a corresponding color.
That’s it! I chose to hang mine up on this little tree I have on my desk, but they’ll look so amazing on a Christmas tree, too. I just love them. They’re so cool and unique and they were so easy to make! I definitely recommend giving this project a shot; you won’t regret it! Of course, if you do make these, I want to see your results, so show me in the comments!
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Sherry Miller on Dec 02, 2021
Thank you Kathryn for sharing with me.
Sherry
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These bulbs are beautiful. I am on a fixed income and wonder if I can omit the floetrol and thin more with water. Then maybe squirt the different paints inside the bulbs and twirl them around to disperse the paint. Then I also could omit the varnish because the outside of the bulbs are already shiny . Please let me know if you think this would work and be as pretty as yours are.
Thank You
Sherry
if you are on a budget you can you the dollar tree paints and dollar tree glue (either craft in the brown bottle or regular school glue). Mix approximately half and half then dilute slightly with water so that it is pourable, but not as much as if doing on canvas. If doing on a canvas you would want to dilute it even more with water so that it has the consistency of basically what the paint was prior to adding the glue. If you do not use a sealer you will not have a shiny surface after it dries on the ornaments sadly. The canvas seems to shine a little, maybe because it holds onto more paint?