Your burned bulbs are gradually accumulating in a corner and you are about to throw them in the trash?Do you want to replace your incandescent bulbs with new LED bulbs?So why don't you use it to create a recovery Christmas ball?If you do not have the courage to get rid of your used bulbs, it's time to use them to decorate your tree! Today, Deavita presents you 20 original ways to make magnificent Christmas suspensions with recycled bulbs.This is an ideal opportunity to inspire you from our DIY decorative ideas to add a touch of fantasy to your interior.
How to make a Christmas ball with a recycled bulb?
Instead of depositing the old bulbs in a collection point, Deavita invites you to recycle them in superb Christmas balls, both fanciful and original.To do this, just adopt the right gestures and the right technique, and you will be able to create charming decorations.If you think that the fragility of the bulbs is an insurmountable obstacle, think again!In reality, they are much more solid than you think!Come on, let's go for some original decorative ideas that will inspire you with multiple recycling possibilities.With a little glitter, a few pieces of fabric and special paint, you will transform your burnt bulbs into pretty Christmas balls.
Above, our first idea recycling of used bulbs: a Christmas ball dotted with sky blue glitter and hanging on a white paper branch.To make this original suspension, you must get the following equipment: a bulb, glitter of the desired color, scotch or masking tape, a knife or a cutter, a hair lacquer, special glue or glue varnish, bomb glue and hemp string.
Christmas balls decorated with multicolored sequins
Now we are going to serious things.Start by sawing the pellet of the bulb using the knife, remove the stud and remove the glass tube that is inside.Ar the neck of the bulb with tape or masking tape, and use bomb glue or glue varnish to brush the entire surface of your future Christmas ball.Then sprinkle your glitter bulb that you should then fix with hair lacquer.Instead, you can also use fixing spray or other such product.To dry the glitter, do not hesitate to place your work in a piece of cardboard.Recover the remaining glitter using a simple sheet folded in half.All you have to do is remove the scotch from the neck of the bulb.Proceed the same for the other bulbs by choosing, this time, red, green, blue or gray glitter.
Christmas ball dressed gray glitter and decorated with a red ribbon
Finally, we go to the last stage of our tutorial: the realization of the suspension.Wrap the hemp wire around the bottleneck, and make a solid knot.Create a stable grip using a piece of metal wire to hang your balls on the Christmas tree.Do not hesitate to crown your artisanal creation with a red ribbon or other accessory according to your desires: white pearl, rhinestones, fancy pin and etc..
Green and blue glitter to make a completely festive Christmas ball!
If you want to boost the decoration of your tree a little more, do not hesitate to play the tonic color card to make a completely festive Christmas ball!Nothing like a mixture of turquoise blue and fir green, or an association of glitter flakes!
Christmas ball decorated with a glitter snowflake
Give your broken bulbs for a second life by transforming them into a hanging Christmas balls!Whether they become snowmen, Christmas reindeer or funny characters, your suspensions are both artistic and funny.So give free rein to your creative ideas and mix energizing colors and cozy fabrics.With a few red and white wool threads, and voila.
Transform your craft Christmas ball into a snowman!
Converting a bulb that no longer works in Christmas ball is one thing.But to give it a second skin is another matter.You can use your artistic talent to transform your bulbs into Christmas dads, penguins, Disney heroes, or simply cover them with graphic, ethnic or floral patterns.
Funny balls customized with ribbons and pompoms
There are many ways to make a Christmas ball with a broken light bulb, especially if you show artistic talent.To give life to your creations, you can use either plasticine, or paint or paint.
Use plasticine to enhance your creations!
Another subtlety that we want to tell you: for decorative elements, such as arms, feet, hats, scarves, you can replace plasticine with felt or other fabric provided specially for this purpose.Animate the decoration of unicolore balls with a glitter composition of colorful rhinestones!
RENNE -shaped Christmas ball
Here is a small tutorial to transform your bulbs into Christmas reindeer: Take a bulb and apply clearly paint uniformly.Then draw the contours of a reindeer by drawing the eyes, nose and mouth using a black felt.Use pink paint to create well -plump cheeks.Decorate with two pine cones and a red hat.
Here is a Christmas recycled Christmas ball in Santa Claus hyper cute!
Once you have created your first Christmas ball, go to the manufacture of a mini Santa Claus by opting for a jar of white paint, to draw the beard and the mustaches, and pale pink paint for the face.Do not forget to decorate it with a hat decorated with a white ribbon!
Instructions to draw a smiling face on a used bulb
The white paint may not cover the entire surface of your Christmas ball, or that it creates an impression of unsightly transparency.In this case, you can just pass a second layer of paint to get the desired effect.
Christmas ball painted in metallic gray
With the drop in temperatures, do you want to curl up, comfortably lying on the living room sofa?A real idyll that just requires a small tree decorated with artisanal Christmas balls!An atmosphere imbued with sweetness and tenderness, and two elements that will enhance your magic decor: silver gray paint and lace strips for a 100 percent cozy Christmas ball!
Follow this step to convert your Christmas ball into a snowman!
This is the material needed to transform your Christmas ball into a snowman who has a split smile to the ears: a pair of scissors, a few pieces of felt, a glue gun, brushes, pots of paint, aPaint roller of the polymer, glue and string dough.
Customized broken bulb with a branch of red berries
To convert your Christmas ball bulb, you can simplify your life by leaving its interior intact.Just apply a layer of paint quickly, and place a handful of red berries on the cheek of the bulb: this is the winning formula for a quick but original decoration!
Broken bulbs transformed into glass balls
If you still want to empty the interior of your used bulb, you can accommodate everything that goes through your head: colorful pearls, small buttons, glass shavings, rhinestones, stones, crystals, the goal being to achieveA kind of glass ball.
Used bulbs filled with multicolored vermicelli
For a most festive decor, we fill our multicolored pearls and vermicelli balls, and we vary the energizing colors to obtain a real magic!In addition, this can be a pretext to invite your children to take part in this fulfilling activity!
Christmas ball filled with green color pieces
Finally, it should be forgotten that this type of DIY is completely ecological and environmentally friendly.So, as much to make a Christmas ball in a vegetable mind, with a few pieces of glass of green color or an assortment of crystals, knowing that this last option may seem fairly expensive.
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