Glass Ball Christmas Ornaments

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Christmas is about to come. Everybody is involved in preparations to welcome Christmas festival. Christians are very enthusiastic to celebrate it. They clean their houses, and decorate them and Christmas tree with beautiful ornaments. They exchange gifts, sing Christmas songs and look for ornaments to give their Christmas tree a better look. Making your own Christmas tree decorations is a great to save your money and create something, which will surely have a deep meaning and not a plain store bought ornament. Glass balls are easy to find and decorate ready-made ornaments easily. Glass balls come in a range of metallic colors. In this article, we will give you many ideas to create wonderful glass ball Christmas ornaments.

The Christmas is the time for giving, sharing and making different crafts. Nothing captures the holiday spirit than gathering a group of friends, relatives and family members to embellish Christmas tree. This task is more enjoyable if the ornaments are handcrafted by those you love most.

Let us have a look at tips about how to make glass ball Christmas ornaments:

First, you need to open the glass ornament by removing the top.
Now, you need to pour a line of chunky paint into ornament so that paint coats inside of the glass. You need to repeat this process to make lines with many colors so that the whole inside is covered in paint.
To marbleize those colors, you need to turn the ornament on its side and then rotate so that the paint runs collectively. Now, dry before reattaching the top of ornament
Now, you need to collect small items, which fit into the opening of the ornament like beads, seeds, lace, tinsel, candy, feathers or anything, which strikes your fancy
By unscrewing the top of the ornament, you can open the ornament
Now, you need to add the small objects. For a uniform look, you just need to add one kind of item for another affect; you need to add different colors of the similar item
Once you complete the above given steps, you need to cut a triangular piece of red that gives a feel for the hat of Santa. It must be wide for covering half glass ball as a brim.
Now, you need to glue that hat on ornament near the top, Mod Podge glue is best for this, even if other craft glues can be used.
Now, glue cotton balls for covering the bottom of the brim and then add a pom-pom to the triangle to finish the hat of Santa
Now, you have to cut two small circles for eyes and glue them below the hat brim to sit them systematically
You should use more cotton balls for adding a beard below the eyes of Santa, where his mouth will be. You also need to cut and glue two red circles for making rosy cheeks by attaching these above the beard of Santa