Handcraft Marbleized Baubles for Your Christmas Tree

This tiny glass bauble would look nice on a Shabby Chic Christmas tree.

     People have been marbleizing glass baubles for years and why not? It is both a fun and a simple way to add a bit of pizzazz to ordinary glass baubles.

 Supply List:

• acrylic paints: one very light color combined with one or two very bright colors
• clear glass bauble with detachable metal catche and hook
• disposable paper cup
• Ribbon or fancy wire for hanging
• tacky white glue

Step-by-Step Directions:

1.  For this peppermint swirled, glass bauble I dripped red and white acrylic paints into my glass bauble and swirled these two colors around inside the ornament. 
2. Then I turned the glass bauble upside down and stood it inside of a disposable paper cup. I let this drain for an hour or so.
3. Then I removed the bauble and turned it right side up, cleaned off the lip of the glass and replaced the metal catche.
4. I twisted an old sprig of winter white berries around the metal catch adding tacky glue to the old vintage wire.
5. I looped a piece of matching winter berry spring through the bauble's hook and twisted it to make a fancy hoop in order to hang my marbleized bauble from my feather tree.

      You can also make similar marbleized ornaments with alcohol inks and

 compressed air. Ranger Ink has a video here to show you how to do this.