Welcome back to the 2nd day of Christmas-DIY Christmas Ornaments that is! I'm back with my second project- DIY Sprinkle Ornaments! I'm so excited by all the awesome ornaments my fellow bloggers are sharing and I hope you're enjoying it so far too!
To start today's ornament you'll need to gather your supplies:
- clear glass ball ornament
- sprinkles of your choosing
- varnish
I tried this with a number of different methods to get the sprinkles to stick to the inside of the ornament and this ONLY worked with varnish and by following these directions exactly-otherwise the color of the sprinkles bleeds and it looks not-so-nice! You've been warned!
Squirt some varnish into the ornament and swirl it around to coat.
When the ornament is completely covered on the inside set it upside down on some newspaper or scrap paper to let the excess varnish run out-move the ornament every few minutes to make sure that all the excess is allowed to drip out. This is important, if you have too much varnish it will bleed! Let the ornament continue to drain and dry for about 10-15 minutes-we want it tacky, not too sticky on the inside.
If you have a funnel use it to add your sprinkles-I didn't have one handy so I just made a little tube from newspaper instead. Add sprinkles and rotate the ornament so that all the surface is coated.
Dump out any excess sprinkles if you desire and allow the ornament to dry. For the best results I recommend changing the ornament's position every 5 minutes or so as it's drying just in case the varnish starts to try to pool at the bottom again, which can result in that bleeding of the dye in the sprinkles.
This is super cute with lots of different types of sprinkles as you can see in the top picture.
(By the way glass ornaments are SO hard to photograph-there's always a glare!)
Be sure to stop by all the other blogs participating to get a ton more inspiration-see you tomorrow with another DIY ornament idea!
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Kristen @ Down Home Inspiration says
Oh man, I am loving these! How fun! Can't wait to make some with my kiddos.
Melissa says
Thanks Kristen!
Linda @ Mixed Kreations says
What a clever idea! These turned out really pretty. Very colorful. Love them! My grandkids would enjoy these. Thanks for sharing. Pinned!
Melissa says
Thanks Linda! My boys loved them too!
Kimberly ~ Serendipity Refined says
As silly as this may sound, I never thought of this! I would have filled them all the way up and wasted a TON of sprinkles! Great idea!
Dusty @All Things G&D says
This turned out so cute! I have a DIY sprinkle ornament coming up in my 12 days as well, but I never thought to try to get the sprinkles to stick to the ornament using varnish. That's brilliant! (And would have saved me $ on sprinkles!!)
Marilyn says
Wow, we must be soul mates....I made these exact same ornaments (which is going live on my blog tomorrow as Part of Craft Lightning) but I use pledge instead of varnish. I have edited my post to include a link to this post so people can see how you made yours (I won't tell them it's varnish so they will stop by). I hope to get a little traffic your way!
Melissa says
How did the Pledge work Marilyn?
Marilyn says
It's tricky....you have to make sure you don't have too much or the sprinkles melt. Like with your post, you need to gently rotate the ornament to completely cover rather than shake the ornament. With these two things in mind, it worked well. However, I did mail some to friends and not all of them survived the shaking that occurred during shipping. Does the varnish technique hold up to the US mail?
Linda aka Crafty Gardener says
What a fun idea. I'm visiting from Creative Cain Cabin and the link up she has there.
Adrienne says
Do you think this idea would work with plastic ornaments instead of glass?
Melissa says
I would check the ornament glue to see if it says it will adhere to plastic, that would be my only concern.