Create these DIY patinated copper Christmas tree ornaments or baubles with old baubles and paint!
The Christmas projects have begun! I’m loving all the rustic, textured and metal tree ornaments that are around at this year. My local garden centre has some beautiful heavy rusty baubles, and as much as I’d love to have them, they’re £5 an ornament (!) and they’re so heavy I think they might damage something when my cats inevitably knock them off the tree. I enjoy a challenge, and making things mindlessly in my evenings in front of the TV, and so I had a go at turning some old blue plastic baubles I had into copper patinated ornaments. I’m really pleased with how they turned out, and as I used materials I already had, I’ve not only repurposed some old plastic baubles that would have sat unused but also created some new tree ornaments for this year without spending a penny! Keep reading to find out how I did and what I used…
Old Baubles
Primer or Mod Podge
Copper Metallic Paint
Acrylic Paint (Black, Green, Blue & White)
1.
Grab your old bauble, remove the top and place it onto a paintbrush. Prime the bauble or cover it in a layer of mod podge.
2.
When this is dry, paint a layer of black acrylic paint all over.
3.
Before the black paint is dry, use a spikey paint brush and some copper paint, and stipple the copper into the black.
4.
Keep building this up creating texture and layers of copper with some small bits of black exposed.
5.
Once you’re happy with the coverage, and again before it’s dry, mix up yellow, blue and white to create a minty green colour. Stipple this all over the bauble in between the patches of copper.
6.
Reattach the top of your bauble and leave it to dry thoroughly. To keep it looking real, and the copper parts shiny and the patina matt, don’t cover with a sealant.
