Altering Plain Ornaments With Perfect Paints

Hello everyone! Jenn DuBell here, excited to bring you a fresh and creative project that will breathe new life into those mundane shatterproof ornaments cluttering your holiday decor box. If you’ve ever felt that your ornaments lack personality or charm, you’re in for a treat! 

Today, I’ll be demonstrating how to transform these plain ornaments into stunning, eye-catching pieces using Perfect Paints' Shimmering Matte Acrylic Paints. With a vibrant palette and a few innovative techniques, you'll quickly see how easy it is to elevate your seasonal decorations. So grab your paints and join me on this fun up-cycling journey—let’s make those ornaments shine like never before!

Elegant Christmas ornaments beautifully enhanced with Perfect Paints products, showcasing unique textures and shimmering colors.

Let's take a look at the products used to transform these ornaments.

Northern Lights Shimmering Matte Acrylic Paint

Bright Gold Shimmering Matte Acrylic Paint

Red Wagon Shimmering Matte Acrylic Paint

Washed Teal Shimmering Matte Acrylic Paint

Doves Wing Polishing Plaster

Forest Pine Polishing Plaster

White Crackle Medium

Shatterproof plain ornaments

Baby wipes or damp rag to wipe away excess paint

Silicone Molds

Air Dry Clay

Adhesive

Directions:

First, prepare the surfaces of the ornaments by applying gesso. Let this dry completely.

White gesso-coated ornaments resting on a ceramic palette, showcasing their smooth and textured finish.

Next, use an air dry clay to create ornamental pieces with silicone molds. Another option is to use items in your stash or florals.

Elegant Christmas ornaments adorned with intricate clay embellishments add festive charm to the holiday decor.

You can paint these any way you like in any color. For my post I will focus on the vintage ornament. This required me to mix paint to get the shade of brown. I used Frosted Pine Polishing Plaster, Northern Lights and Red Wagon Shimmering matte Acrylic Paints. I added a dab of black matte acrylic paint and a few drops of water and mixed.

Colorful selection of paints ready to bring handmade ornaments to life.

Next, I watered down the brown mix and applied as shown in the photo. Use a damp baby wipe or cloth to wipe away some of the paint.

A creative start to a holiday decoration, the ornament is being beautifully transformed starting with a coat of brown acrylic paint.

Next, Paint the bottom portion of the ornament using a thinned out bit of Forest Pine Polishing Plaster. Once Dry, Add a coat of Northern Lights Shimmering Matte Acrylic Paint.

Next, add the crackle medium to the top and allow it to crack. Once the cracking is dry and complete, water down the brown mix and brush it on to create the antiqued look.

Elegant ornament featuring a smooth shimmery "Forest Pine" base and a textured, crackled top.

Dry brush on the Bright Gold Shimmering Matte Acrylics to the raised brown clay center - this will add some additional dimension to your ornament.

Northern Lights With Crackle and Bright Gold Ornament

For the remaining two ornaments shown, I used the Washed Teal Shimmering Matte Acrylic Paint. It was dry brushed with white gesso to finish.

The third was painted with Northern Lights Shimmering Matte Acrylic Paint.

Festive ornament painted in Perfect Paints Washed Teal with clay embellishments highlighted with gesso for an elegant touch.

Elegant ornament adorned with Frosted Pine paint, featuring a clay embellishment accentuated by white gesso for a festive touch.

Beautifully crafted ornaments featuring intricate designs, brought to life with Perfect Paints Acrylics and Texture Mediums.

Thanks so much for visiting and viewing my project using Perfect Paints! I hope I have inspired you to grab some of these amazing products and create something beautiful! I will be creating more to share with you soon!

Jenn DuBell