Ombre is a home design trend that I love.
If you aren’t familiar with the term, ‘Ombre’ refers to a color gradient that progresses from lightest to darkest.
Like you see on a paint chip!
Which is what inspired me to make this easy inexpensive DIY Ombre Paint Chip Ornament! This is a fabulous gift idea and present topper idea too!.
Use those paint chips that you’ve collected and saved ….
…Repurpose your old, dated ornaments or use ornaments that are on sale at the end of the year!
Before I talk about this ornament idea – check out how you can get completely organized for the holidays with this gorgeous Ultimate Holiday Planner!
You won’t forget a place to be at, a card to send, a gift to get or groceries to buy with these 27 printable pages including:
Dated calendars, menu planners, gift tracker and Christmas organization! It’s saving my sanity this year prepping for the holidays!
Materials
- Paint chips
- Ornaments (this is a great project to use ornaments that have colors or designs you no longer are in love with, or dollar store ornaments will work perfectly too!)
- 1 inch circle punch
- Silver colored craft paint
- Paint Brush
- Hot glue gun
- Thick Silver thread
- Scissors
Tutorial
- Paint cap of Ornament and around top of ornament with silver colored craft paint. I used some dark blue ornaments I had already, that had gold caps.
- Using a 1 inch circle punch, punch out several circles of each color on the color chip. My paint chips have 5 colors which creates a nice ombre design.
- Take one circle of the darkest color and glue onto the bottom of the ornament.
- Using circles of this same dark color, hot glue them onto ornament, overlapping each circle. Create one band of this color. It will look a bit messy at this point, but don’t worry you will be covering up the hot glue parts!
- Using second darkest color hot glue circles onto ornament overlapping each circle so that the previous layer is somewhat covered. Create one band of this color.
- Continue gluing the circles onto the ornament making one band in each color until the entire ornament is covered.
- Cut an 8 inch long piece of thick silver thread and tie onto ornament to hang.
Hang and enjoy!
I love how the circle shapes create subtle gradations of color from light to dark.
To personalize this ornament for your home use paint chip colors that coordinate with your Christmas décor!
These are so much fun to make! They will add a pop of color as well as a fresh look to your space for the holidays.
So now you know how much I love Ombre! What do you think about this design trend?
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Heather Luckhurst is an Interior Designer and owner of the Interior Design and Lifestyle website 
So cute!! I love the ombre, the paint chip use and the colors! Great job!
Thanks Lucy! That circle punch is so fun to use!
What a pretty ombre ornament–such a great idea, Heather!
Thanks for your sweet compliments!
Too fun!
That circle punch is wayyyyy too fun Barb! Glad you like these ornaments!
Love, love, love these, Heather! Ombre and paint chips – two of my very favourite things rolled into one 🙂
Hi visiting from Social Fabric. I have been so busy with a wedding I am just getting caught up in the forums. Nice to meet you! I added you to Google+ & twitter, FB.. I am torn between blue & a forest theme this year. I love changing it up in simple ways, yet using things I already have. What a clever way to change up a bulb!
Oooo! So pretty! I love the ombre too! I’m really impressed that you managed to pull this off though. Mine would be a total mess!
Thanks Court! This circle punch is too fun!
I love ombre! I tried to paint my craft room walls with an ombre effect, but it was just too hard and I gave up. These ombre ornaments are MUCH easier to make, look SO cool!
Another fun & easy ornament project is glitter balls – I was totally addicted to making them last year!
This circle punch was addictive Kelly!
So cute! I love how it’s free….can’t beat that!
so cute! What a cool idea!!
What a great idea, Heather ~ love this!
Love it Heather!! Great job:)
This is so beautiful! I just love it Heather. Gorgeous color choices 🙂
Fantastic idea and a great way to use paint chips!
Thanks Malia – yes now I have a way to use all those paint chips I have been hoarding! Haha!
So pretty! I’m a huge paint chip fan, and this color you chose is gorge.
-Brittney
Thanks Brittney – I love those colors too!
super, duper cute!
Thanks Hilani – so fun to make!
Love it Heather! This looks great on the tree! Super Pretty..thank you so so much for linking up at the No Rules Christmas Party!!
Jen
Thanks for your supersweet comments Jen and for hosting your awesome party!!
Oooooh, I like this! It never occurred to me that you would use paint chips. How very clever and FREE! 🙂
It turned out lovely. 🙂
Julie
Everything about this is great! The color, the ombre, how CHEAP it is to make!
Thanks and I agree it’s great to make projects that are inexpensive this time of year!
So pretty – great idea.
Thanks Holly! They are fun to make!
So fun and loved your video – that hair – very Farrah!
Kelly
Thanks Kelly – yes I am Farrah’s twin you know!!! LOL – Not!!!!
Wow, I love this ornament. This would be a great project for one of the ornaments where the paint is starting to come off. Genius! Thanks for sharing on the homemade holiday party.
Marilyn
Exactly Marilyn! You can use any ornament even one that is a really not so pretty color!
Heather I love a good ombre project and this is a great one! I’ve enjoyed the trend in ombre, but seldom find a use for it in my home because it requires way to much thought in the color degradation and I’m too lazy to figure it out!!! I love your ornament because it’s a good way to get a little ombre without overload. So did you make a whole set of these for your tree?
This is such a great idea! I just bought a hole punch, too! All right!
These are awesome too Heather, looks like I may have to make a batch for my kiddos teachers to add to their gifts. I love how modern they look!
Helen
Hi Heather! This is such an awesome craft! About how many circles did you need of one color to get around the middle part? The paint chips I had (which yielded 6 1″ circles) did not nearly make it around! Thank you.
Hi Katie – I used 10 overlapped circles for the middle. Hope that helps!