Drawing to Christmas Ornament

How to put a kid's drawing on a Christmas ornament with AI

To see a kid's drawing on a Christmas ornament before anyone prints one, upload a photo of the drawing to Drawing to Christmas Ornament: 1 photo per run on any plan, and new accounts get 3 free photos. You get a close-up photo of a white glass ball or a flat porcelain disc hanging on a lit fir, with the drawing on it exactly as your child made it, crayon strokes, wobbly lines and colors included. No photo of your kid is needed.

1. 1Shoot the sheet from directly overhead by a window, edges included, with no shadow from your hand or phone across the art.
2. 2Upload it to The drawing and pick the Ornament: Glass ball, the default, or Flat ceramic. Press Create; one picture costs 1 photo.
3. 3Open My creations, download the ornament picture and use it as a post or the front of a card.

Glass ball or flat ceramic: what is the difference?

The glass ball is glossy white glass about 8 cm (3 inches) across, with a ridged gold cap and a narrow red satin ribbon. The drawing follows its curve: crisp in the middle, bending gently away toward the edges under the shine of the glass. The flat ceramic is a porcelain disc about 9 cm (3.5 inches) wide with a thin gold rim and a loop of red-and-white baker's twine. There the drawing fills the whole face, flat and undistorted, the crayon texture showing through the glaze. In our tests the four-figure family drawing came out whole on both shapes.

Both hang on a lit Nordmann fir in an evening living room, soft golden bokeh behind, and a neutral front light keeps the colors true: blue crayon stays blue and the paper white stays clean, not orange.

What can you use it for?

• A Christmas card for grandparents: this year's drawing on the front and the artist inside, from Kid's Christmas Portrait.
• A preview for choosing which drawing to take to a photo-gift shop for a real ornament.
• A December tradition: one drawing a year, so the pictures show how your kid's art changes.

What does an example run look like?

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Which drawing looks best on an ornament?

• Leave the writing on the sheet. A name, MOM or MY FAMILY in your child's hand is copied letter for letter, in their own shapes and colors, and never swapped for a typed font.
• Family drawings are fine. Every figure stays in the same order, size and spacing, so a row of people holding hands keeps holding hands on the ball.
• Bold crayon or marker on white paper reads best, because the bare paper becomes the ornament's own white surface. We haven't tested colored or black paper, and the ornament is white in both versions.

What goes wrong most often?

• Expecting a tidier version of the art. Nothing is redrawn or turned into a cartoon, so a scribbled face stays scribbled.
• Typing the year on later in an editor, next to crayon letters. Want a year on it? Have your kid write it on the sheet: whatever they wrote is copied as part of the drawing. We tested words like MY FAMILY, not numbers, so check the digits before you post.
• Wanting the character as a 3D figure on the tree. Here the drawing stays flat, like a keepsake print; for a sewn soft toy from the same sheet, see Drawing to Plush Toy.