Ok so yea.....waaaaay late on posting these. I started working on these ornaments back in early november as I though I would not have enough Disney ornaments for my new themed tree this year. Once I discovered the tree was full I wasnt in quite the rush I was. I didnt like that the black was showing through the paint and I just kinda lost interest. I opened my craft box a few days ago and the glitter was laying next to these and it was like a lightbulb. Such an easy fix for the transparency issue!!
Anyway I used Black christmas bulbs from last years purple and black tree, Masking tape, Red Acrylic paint, Red Glitter acrylic paint, Red fine glitter, white buttons, and my glue gun.
This is a pretty simple project. I started with the plain ornaments...
Next I used masking tape about just a little over halfway up the bulb...
I painted the bottom half of the ornament with a red acrylic paint....
Then I added the red glitter acrylic...FYI...I did not like this paint at all and this is what stopped me in my tracks....
Notice how the glitter didnt cover evenly...I drove me nuts!! So after a couple months I added a second coat of the glitter paint and then while wet I covered the bulbs in loose fine glitter. This fixed the coverage issue and even made the color look batter. I allowed these to dry and removed the masking tape carefully.
Finally I used my glue gun to glue on Mickey's "Buttons"...
This was the finished product...So after months of hating them now that they are finished they may make it to the tree next year after all :P
you seriously did an *amazing* job on these! you should make a bunch to sell on etsy next xmas!
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