Christmas balls with own hands

Of course, no one is asking you to becomeglass blower and do Christmas balls, as they say, "from scratch." You just need to buy unbreakable single-colored Christmas balls and materials for decoration, and then everything depends on your imagination. How can you turn ordinary factory Christmas balls into exclusive?

The first thing that comes to mind is to paint them. Even if you do not know how to draw too well,do not despair, do not necessarily capture a large-scale plot on the ball. Draw snowflakes or write a wish for the New Year under everyone's power. For painting, you can use acrylic paints and thin brushes. Instead of acrylic, you can take gouache mixed with PVA glue. Suitable for these purposes and paint-gels with sparkles in a tube, as well as contours for glass. To make the ball look more elegant, you can tie a wrapping ribbon around its "neck".

Can decorate Christmas balls with fabric and lace. One of the simplest options is a ball intissue "bag". Take a square piece of satin or silk, put a ball in the center, collect the corners of the fabric together and tie a ribbon. You can embroider the fabric with beads, sequins, etc. You can also decorate the ball with an appliqué of fabric or lace. It can be just fragments of beautiful lace or pieces of fabric, decorated with embroidery, embroidered with braid, sutured tape, paillettes, beads, beads. Instead of the fabric, you can use foil for application.

Another variant of decoration is To coat the ball with silicate glue and tightly wrap it with beads, so that there are no gaps. You can take the old beads, or you can just thread a bead or bead on a string. Only they should be the same diameter, otherwise it will not work exactly. In this case, you can take as a blank not only a glass / plastic ball, but even a foam or table tennis (if you have enough patience to wrap it). Just do not forget to attach to it a loop for hanging.

You can also decorate Christmas balls in the technique of decoupage. We have written about it many times, solet us recall only the general scheme of work. From the special decoupage napkin carved motif (pattern), superimposed on the ball and covered with varnish. Instead of decoupage napkins you can use conventional three-layer wipes (only the top layer). More information on how to make Christmas balls in this technique, you can read in our article "New Year Decoupage."

By the way, original Christmas balls can be made without purchase of blanks. As a basis for balls, you can take burned bulbs. But keep in mind that you need to work with them carefully- fragile glass all the same. So, it's better not to trust toys for small children making light bulbs. All you need is to paint the lamps with acrylic paints, close the base and attach a ribbon to it. The cap can be covered with a "skirt" of colored paper or cloth, a wide ribbon with a bow. If you make toys in the form of characters, then the socle can be covered with Santa's "cap", "Snowman's bucket", etc.

You can still make Christmas balls made of ... eggs. To do this, you need to "poles" an ordinary chickeneggs to make small holes with a needle or an awl and gently blow the contents out of it. After this, the egg should be thoroughly rinsed, rinsed with water and vinegar and carefully dried, so that the shell does not crack.

The resulting shell can be decorated in different ways: paint with felt-tip pens or paints, decorateapplication, make him a little man ... The space for imagination is almost unlimited. To hang such a ball, you need to make a loop. To do this, take the thread, fold it twice, stretch from one hole to the other. At the bottom, tie a knot, at the top - make a noose.

As you can see, there are a huge number of ways to decorate Christmas balls with your own hands. The main thing is not to hold back fantasy and not be afraid to experiment!