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Materials:

One box matte blue glass ball ornaments
Silver acrylic paint
Brushes
Fine Holographic silver glitter (I found mine in the candle-making section of my local craft store)

These were really simple to make. I didn't start out with a pattern, I just dove right in. If you like, you can plan things out ahead of time. I like to work on the fly, sometimes, and most of them came out alright.

First, I painted the silver paint directly on the glass ball ornament. I tried to work in small sections.

Painting the initial guide for the silver stripes. After I had the placement right, I fattened them each up a bit.

While the paint was still wet, I sprinkled the glitter on top and tapped the excess off.

Sprinkling glitter on one wet stripe. On this ornament, I worked one stripe at a time.

That's it! I dried the ornaments upside down on some dowels stuck in glasses. Pencils would work just as well.

All of the ornaments drying on dowels.

All of the materials I used were quite inexpensive and can be used on many other projects.

Total time spent: approximately one hour
US Dollars spent: approximately 4 (I already had the glitter and the paint)

Please note: Unless otherwise noted, all of these instructions, photographs, and ideas are mine. Please give me credit (and send me pictures!) if you work off of these designs. The sale of any items based on these designs is prohibited.

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