Monogrammed Ball Ornaments

Each Christmas, I like to make a small homemade gift to give to special friends, teachers, co-workers, party hosts, and those family members that we do not buy a gift for. This year I had just about decided I would need to start baking cookies because I just wasn't coming up with an idea of something relatively inexpensive to make, as we would need to give about 30 of them.

Then I came across an idea on Pinterest. The blogger monogrammed her last name's initial onto a ball ornament in gold paint. It was the perfect idea, but it needed something...

GLITTER!

These ornaments will make a nice personal addition to the tree!

For this project, you will need colored ball ornaments.
I found these at Hobby Lobby. I thought it would be best
to get those with a matte finish, or the non-shiny kind.
You will also need paint pens and glitter.

Begin by writing the letter onto the ornament.
This takes a steady hand.

I found a font on my computer and printed the needed letters on paper and used it as a guide, but I did still have to free hand.

While the paint is still wet, sprinkle a generous
amount of glitter. As a rule, we didn't have time
to be neat. Dump the glitter on and knock off
the excess into a container. The paint dries quickly.

When it is completely dry, brush off any extra glitter.
To give it a nice finishing touch, I added a piece
of ribbon to hang it.

I used silver and gold paint and glitter on the darker colored
ornaments. For the white ornaments, we used red, blue, and
green paints and glitters.

While I made all of the above ornaments, my girls did get in on the action and made a few ornaments, too.

My 8-year-old made these ornaments. She made the "G" in
her school colors and plans to give it to her principal. She wrote
"JOY" on her second ornament.

My 5-year-old made these, a cupid's heart and "JOY" with each
letter a different color.

'And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.' Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, 'Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.' Matthew 1:21-23