Beautiful Pressed Flower Ornaments for a Handmade Christmas

Create stunning pressed flower ornaments for Christmas! A beautiful handmade craft to decorate your tree or give as gifts to loved ones.

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Pressed Flower Ornaments

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These handmade Christmas ornaments are not only unique and lovely but also have that vintage charm we all love!

While I used glass ball ornaments to make these beauties, you can also use wood or plastic ornaments as the base. I’ll share a wood ornament at the bottom of this post, so be sure to read to the end.

Supplies for Pressed Flower Christmas Ornaments

Dried Pressed Flowers: you can save time by purchasing dried flowers, or easily press your own.
Mod Podge: I used gloss, but you can also use matte if you prefer that look better.
Ball Ornaments: I scored a box of 12 glass ornaments for $2 at the thrift store. Be sure to check out your local stores to see what they have. Plastic ball ornaments also work well.
Small Brushes
Clear Sealer: This is a good idea to protect the flowers for storage. (I still need to seal mine)

Step 1. Clean the Ornaments

The first step whenever crafting with glass is to remove any dust or fingerprints. Rubbing alcohol works great.

Step 2. Add Mod Podge

Use a small brush to cover the ornament with mod podge.

Step 3. Add the Dried Flowers

Carefully place the flowers onto the ornament. It helps to use tweezers as the flowers are very fragile. The dried flowers I bought did include tweezers.

Carefully press the flowers down and hold for a minute or so until they are secure.

Step 4. Add Another Mod Podge Layer

You can add flowers onto the entire ornament, or just on the front as shown below. This is a matter of preference. Let dry.

Just look at how gorgeous these DIY Christmas tree ornaments are:

Pressed Flower Ornaments with purple and pink flowers

Please note that I did paint the silver tops of the ornaments gold. They went better with the vintage look I wanted.

Step 5. Spray a Clear Sealer

As soon as I get a day that is not crazy windy, I will go on the balcony to spray the ornaments. This will definitely help protect the flowers.

As mentioned above, I did want to play around with a couple of other pressed flower ornaments.

I painted the inside of one of the glass balls with green paint and also outlined the flowers with a gold paint pen. It looks prettier in person.

The wood slice ornament is super pretty. Again, it will get a nice shine once it is sealed. Add pretty ribbon and hang them on your Christmas Tree.

I’m going with narrow velvet ribbon and will share pics once the tree is up. Ask me how excited I am for that!!

handmade Christmas ornament painted green with dried flowers

So what do you think of these handmade Christmas ornaments? Is this something you could see yourself making? They would make thoughtful gifts for friends, neighbors, co-workers or teachers.