I recently bought a white Holiday Tree and my plan was to decorate it using blue, silver and black ornaments, the blue and silver ornaments were easy to find, but when it came time to find black ornaments I could not find any for the life of me! So I decided to go search the dollar store near my house for some cheap inexpensive ornaments that I could spruce up.
What you need for both projects
1.Cheap holiday Ornaments from a dollar store or any other discount store colored and clear.
2. Salt
3. Colored Pastels
4. Spray paint.
5. Clothes line
6. Respirator or mask of some sort
7. Newspaper or some computer paper scraps
8. Super glue
9. Clothes pins.
10. Mono filament or some heavy duty string.
Project 1
For the first project you will need a can of spray paint, a respirator or mask, some clothes line, clothes pins, mono filament or heavy duty string and of course some cheap dollar store ornaments.
You don’t have to sand the ornaments as they will hold the color pretty well, but if you would like to a soft light sanding will always help the paint adhere better.
Now be sure to do this in a well ventilated area and put your mask or respirator on. Hang up your clothes line from one end of something solid to another and make sure it is secure. If you line dry your clothes you can skip this step as you probably already have a clothes line all hung.
Next take your ornaments and string a piece of mono filament or heavy duty string through the part where you would normally put the hook and hang them from the line by the mono filament or string.
You may want to place something underneath the ornaments because while you spray them they will drip. If you don’t mind getting paint allover the area you are spraying, then you can skip this step. But a good drop cloth or some newspaper should work just fine.
Next standing about 4-5 inches away from the ornaments spray the ornaments and as you spray them they will spin so you don’t have to turn them much. If you notice they are not spinning just give them a quick twirl and they shall spin, this will ensure that you get a pretty even coat of spray paint.
Once you are done spraying let them dry for about 10 minutes and examine them for any parts that you have missed, then spray on a second coat. Let dry again for another 10 minutes and examine again, if they need another coat, then give them another coat, if not then just let them dry, they should be fully dry to the touch in about 1-2 hours depending on weather conditions in your area.
Let them cure for a full 24 hours though before placing them on your treat.
Here is an image of the end result
Project 2
For the next project you will need a package of clear, see through, ornaments, they can be plastic or glass, the plastic ones work better as they are much lighter than the glass ones. You need a large container of salt, and some colored charcoal, or chalk and either scrap newspaper or computer paper.
The first step in this is to lay out your paper or newspaper all over your surface that you will be working on.
Second take an ornament and take the part that the hook would normally hang from out. Fill the ornaments with salt to the top and then dump it out on your newspaper or scrap computer paper in my case I used both. I used the newspaper to cover the surface and the computer paper to color my salt on.
Next dump the salt onto the paper and spread it out. Take a piece of charcoal and start coloring the salt, you only need to run it over the salt a few times. Then take the salt and move it around into the pigment from the charcoal until you see that the salt is no longer white.
Once your salt is all colored you refill the ornament and simply stick the part that the hook would hang from back into the ornament. If you would like to simply keep it that way you can, or you can make them more permanent by adding glue to that little part and then sticking them back into the ornament. (Note if you do this, you can no longer re-move the salt, should you wish to change the color)
The end result
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