Create Your Own Handpainted Victorian Christmas Tree Ornaments

This lens was created to show you how to make these simple, yet elegant hand painted Victorian Christmas Tree Ornaments. They require only a few items to make such as ribbon, paint and a clear glass Christmas tree ornament ball. Well that and your imagination.

The Ornaments featured in the lens were created for a specific Christmas Tree color theme, but these Rose ornaments would look awesome in all sorts of reds, wines and burgundy colors. You could even paint white cabbage roses on them and then fill the clear glass ball ornament with something colorful and sparkly.

They also make a truly special Christmas gift. Create a set for family and friends. You could even date them for special occasions. Feel free to take this idea and make it your own.

What you'll find on this page:

Step by Step to painting Rose Petals

Supplies you'll need to create these Christmas Tree Ornaments

Ideas for making them your own unique creations

Please note that all of the photos used on this page are taken by the author.

Items You'll Need To Create This Christmas Tree Ornament:

• Clear glass Christmas Ornament Balls
• Two colors of Oil Paint
• Brushes
• Ribbon
• Jewelers wire
• Hot glue gun

The Four Steps To Making Your Victorian Christmas Tree Ornaments are:

1. Clean the surface of the ornaments

2. Paint the roses

3. Create bows and apply to Christmas Ornament

4. Hang.

You can make this as complex or easy as you want in regards to painting the flowers on your Christmas Tree Ornaments. For the purposes of this lens we're gonna go with easy instructions. Just a few simple brush strokes and you can create fabulous looking roses.

Step 1. Clean The Ornaments

I just used a little window cleaner. I'm not sure how necessary this step is but it's good for removing hand oils as well as factory dust from the packaging materials.

An Extremely Simple Step by Step For Painting Roses On Your Christmas Ornaments

Here is an extremely simple step by step for painting roses on your ornaments. I really don't spend much time working on them and often paint one after another in quick succession. Of course you may wish to spend more time and effort than I, but here's the basics in creating a rose.

I painted my example on paper as I just couldn't get it to photograph well as an in-progress on the ornament. The total time spent painting this rose was about 1 minute.

To keep this simple you really only need two colors for painting your roses. Your primary color of choice which for the examples ornaments was a pink but I think a luscious red would be gorgeous. The other color you need is white. You use it to soften and create highlights on the red.

How To Paint Roses On Your Handpainted Vicotrian Christmas Tree ornaments

Put in the mid-tone range color and create the basic rose shape.

I usually create this color by mizing the darker color such as red with my highlight color of white. Once again this is the simplest way to paint a rose. If you want something more realistic paint it as you might for a painting.

How To Paint Roses On Your Handpainted Vicotrian Christmas Tree ornaments

Add int the darker shadow color. This means the darkest pigment of the color you've selected your rose to be. In this case red.

And yes it's kinda ugly at this stage.

How To Paint Roses On Your Handpainted Vicotrian Christmas Tree ornaments

Add the highlights Which in this instance is white.

Yup still ugly.

How To Paint Roses On Your Handpainted Vicotrian Christmas Tree ornaments

Finish and blend to add depth to your flower. Here's the part where you can fiddle around and make your rose as lifelike or simplas as you wish.

I'm a critter artist and not a painter at all so if I can pop out something vaguely resembling a rose with less than a minutes effort, so can you.

If you've never painted before I'd advise getting a small assorment of paintbrushes for you to try out and experiemtn with. Also despite the fact that I am usually touting quality all the way, this is one of those instances where

there's no need for fancy or expensive paint brushes

Paint brushes can get really expensive and since we're not creating the Mona Lisa here, cheap and cheerful is the way to go.

Step 3. Create A Bow With Ribbon And Wire

For the Pink Victorian Christmas Tree Ornaments featured on this page a 1" Pink ribbon was used. After tying the bow it was secured in place with a little bit of jewelers wire and then hot glued into place. One again use a little crumpled newspaper to hold ornament securely while the glue is drying.

Note: It's important to remember to select an appropriate sized ribbon to balance with the size of your Christmas Tree Ornament Balls.

Fill Ornament With Something Sparkly And Fective

*Colored tinsel

*Colored Tissue Paper

*Potpourri

NOTE: Be sure to fill only with lightweight stuffs as anything to heavy will make the hanger pull free from the ornament.

Paint A White Rose On Your Ornament

* Use a plain colored Christmas Ornament Ball and paint White Roses On them

* Fill The Clear Ball with something like potpourri