I’m still finishing up all the ornament tutorials for this years tree and these are the vintage art supply ornaments:

These were so easy to make in bulk:

It’s as simple as printing off a label, cutting it out and applying it to a small gift box or bottle:

For the rectangular ornaments, I purchased these packs of small mixed gift boxes from Michaels:

I printed the vintage-inspired box labels onto  8.5″x11″ white label paper (which is essentially a huge white sticker you can print onto). My friend, artist Stephanie Corfee, made these cute labels for me! Click the image to download (or click here) the free PDF: (And please help me thank her by following her amazing work on Instagram!)

I cut out the labels and applied them to the boxes. Each box was glued shut and a string attached under the lid with the same glue:

For the vintage-inspired bottles I purchased this bulk pack of small bottles (found in the wedding section of Michaels):

To make them appear filled with old ink or other liquid I just misted some various colors of spray paint into each bottle:

Once the paint was dry I put a little bit of industrial glue onto each cork to keep it in place permanently. Then I added the labels:

My friend Stephanie made these vintage-inspired bottle labels too! Print them in the same way onto  8.5″x11″ white label paper. Click the image to download (or click here) the free PDF: 

Don’t they almost look real?

To attach the string I just inserted a small screw eye, and colored it gold using a gold Sharpie:

I think I could just fill a tree with just these! 

Here’s what the bottles look like on the tree:

Pigment:

A closeup of the turpentine:

Simple vintage-inspired labels on a box:

Click here to see the entire art-themed tree here and all the other ornaments I’ve posted so far! Thanks for reading! 

I’m still working on posts about each specific ornament for the art themed tree. These are the DIY paint can ornaments and I think they definitely rank up there as my favorite.

I wanted to make a diverse set of ornaments and the yellow on these cans was the perfect bright pop for the tree.

A close-up of the ornament:

I used these little paint cans (found in the Michaels packaging/party section): 

I printed the vintage-inspired paint can labels onto  8.5″x11″ white label paper (which is essentially a huge white sticker you can print onto). Click the image to download (or click here) the free PDF that Stephanie created for us: (And please help me thank her by following her amazing work on Instagram!)

I’ll be leaving these out all year!

Click here to see the entire art-themed tree here and all the other ornaments I’ve posted so far! Thanks for reading!