I found these porcelain ornaments online, and ordered some a couple months ago:
First I tried firing decals on them. Because they were already glazed, I held them off the kiln shelves with wadding. The wadding worked, but the decals didn't. They were absorbed by the glaze and became invisible.
I was bummed.
But last night I was cleaning my office and came across them. I had some Diamond Glaze (water based craft shiny coating) left over from another project, so I printed some Christmasy images from the Graphics Fairy and copied some from my own stash. I printed them onto tissue paper, and cut them out and tried to decoupage them on the rounds.
I made a terrible mess and the Diamond glaze reacted with the ink and the colors ran like crazy.
I was bummed.
At first I used more holiday themed images. They looked good, but with the black and white they weren't that interesting.
Next I tried decals that would maybe not seem Holidayish at first glance, like cephalopods and bats.
I was pretty pleased with the octopus wreath, but I was downright proud of the flying bat Christmas Tree!
I let them dry overnight, and this morning they look pretty good!
I will enjoy these being on my tree this year.
Especially the skeleton one!
As a matter of fact, I think I will give one away!
If you would like one, just comment the one you like best, and I will pick one comment at random and send them the ornament of their choice.
Here are a couple of pictures of all the ones I have finished. I will assign a number to each of the comments and use a random number generator to pick. I will pick tomorrow evening (Friday night).
Each of the ornaments also has an image on the back too.
Oh, and please check out my shop and my other one or this one if you have a minute!
Thanks!
And Thanks also to the Graphics Fairy and Theerin for some of the images!
This contest is now closed!