Hand Painted Christmas Ornaments Whimsical, DIY Large Paper Mache Ornaments Black and White Checks, Peacock Feathers, Dots, Stripes and More

Update December 2016

I'm no longer making the hand painted ornaments. Thank you so much for 

all your purchases and support!

Here are some of my very large 12"-16" Christmas ornaments I just painted.

I actually made them by combining different ornaments together.

I love how they turned out!

You may remember these giant ornaments I made a few years ago.

I kept wanting to make more but couldn't find more of this large 

finial style to paint.

I came upon different shapes of paper mache ornaments at Hobby Lobby and 

had an idea to create my own oversized ornaments, 

so I bought all they had that day! 

Here are the pieces I used to create them.

This peacock ornament shown became 12" long including the hanger

after it was all put together.

I didn't take "during" pics but basically, I cut the tops or bottoms off

the ornaments, reglued together, used spackle to cover where

I combined them, primed and painted.

When I was cutting them, the paper mache covering started peeling off

and I saw they were actually plastic underneath...weird huh?

I ended up removing all of the paper mache covering, it peeled right off, 

and painted on the plastic bases, which worked out better anyway.

I was able to create all kinds of large, one of a kind, finial style ornaments by combining 

them in different ways, I had so much fun making all of them!

I also found these smooth foam ornaments that I cut apart

and used parts of them to embellish the ornaments too.

Here they are in painting process. 

I found the huge ones in the foreground at Hobby Lobby also, 

they are completely made of paper mache, no plastic.

As labeled in the pic above, I cut the tops and bottoms off of the ones in the 

foreground and added pieces of the foam finials to the tops and bottoms.

Ready? I have LOTS of pics...

So, of course, animal print is gonna be a given for me.

You can see the finial pieces at the bottom and top here.

After painting, I sprayed all of them with a super high gloss clear finish.

And, I've got to have the black and white check look...

Nope, my lines aren't perfect, but it all comes together,

plus, it just shows it was hand painted ;)

This is the back of the peacock ornament, I added a little brass bead at the bottom.

The feather is painted kind of like my peacock wine glasses, where the 

design wraps around to the back.

This beauty is a whopping 16" long including hanger.

For the most part, I used the little gold rope hangers that came already

attached to the ornaments.

Lots and lots of painting!

Another 16" one. I was really happy how the glossy finish turned out,

they almost look like ceramic or glass.

Sometimes, I have to say "that's enough", because

I could keep going and going adding more painted details.

This one may have been my favorite

I added this cool striped ribbon to cover where I had combined the 

two ornaments.

More animal print, stripes and dots...

Another 16" version, 

I added a ribbon tie to this one too.

That same day at Hobby Lobby, I also found these flat

paper mache ornaments in different shapes. 

I painted a different design on each side so it's really like 

two ornaments in one.

They are about 1/2" thick and all the sides are painted as well.

On these I added different colored glass beads to the hangers at the top.

On a couple of these I used painted thumbtacks that resemble little studs.

I show my painting process for the tacks on my studded pumpkins. I've used them on 

a dragonfly body and painted wooden hearts too.

I love the studded look.

Peacock feather...

Checks...

And all kinds of fun combos.

I offered these in my Etsy store in a set of 4 and a set of 3 

and they have sold.

Last ones... I promise!

These were plain wooden ornaments and I painted with animal print

and black and white checks

A mitten shape...

And stocking shape. They are about 1/2" thick and about 8" long with the hanger.

I added more of the striped ribbon for hangers.

I only have two of these painted wooden ornaments

Thank you so much for checking out all these pics!

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I still have some items available in my Etsy shop as well.