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I cannot tell you how pleased with how these Christmas Snowflake
Decorations turned out! I was cruising around and Pinterest and became inspired
to do a fix up! I still now can’t believe how these turned out! Plus they only cost about $10 for everything! : )
Every year during Christmas time I LOVE going over to my
best-friend’s house because her Mom always goes full out with the Christmas
decorations. I love walking into their house and Christmas is seen all around.
My friend and I always say that Christmas has puked in her house, hehehe. Every
year when her Mom completely finishes decorating she texts me and says “It’s
official, Christmas has puked in my house”. Ah….Okay getting to the point of the
story! : )
Last Christmas while I was at her house, her Mom had all
these adorable decorations and I continued to point out all the ones I thought
were cute. The next week when I returned to visit she made a trip to the store
and picked of multiple decorations for me to take home and decorate my house
with! She’s so sweet! One of the best “otha momma’s” I’ve ever had! : ) Out of
the many decorations she bought me, there were four specific decorations that I
decided to “fix-up”. Four beautiful snowflake decorations. If not for Pinterest
sharing all those beautifully creative people’s ideas I may have never come up
with this idea!Oh Pinterest how I love you! Hehe.
So let's do this thing!
You will need:
- 4 giant plastic snowflakes (found at my local Dollar Tree)
- 1 can of white spray paint
- 1 can of spray glitter (I bought white and should have
bought silver, so I recommend buying the silver if you do this!)
Old newspaper to spray snowflakes on
- If you don’t want to use the spray glitter or want more
glitter do what I did and use either tacky glue mixed with a bit of water or
Mod Podge and sprinkle the sparkles onto the snowflakes. If it's to cold and gloomy outside I'm sure something white acrylic paint would work just as well! : )
These snowflakes are beautiful without all the extra but I
really wanted to take them the extra mile!
When the weather is nice enough, lay out some old newspaper
outside to spray paint the snowflakes on. Spray one side and wait until dry,
when one side is dry flip it over and spray the other side. Or you an decide
after you’ve sprayed one side flip it over the other side before you spray it
looks like it’s ice-y. However, I sprayed both sides.
When the second side has dried take the glitter spray and
spray the side facing up until you are satisfied with the amount of glitter.
Once again flip and repeat with the glitter spray.
Like I said above, I bought the wrong color of glitter spray
so even though it was really beautiful but subtle, I plan on hanging these from
my ceiling and wanted them to be noticeably sparkle-y. So we continue on!
When everything is dry bring the snowflakes inside and clear
a space off on your table! Or, whatever workspace you choose. : ) Lay down
enough newspaper to make sure you don’t muck up your table and place the
snowflakes on top. On one side paint the surface with Mod Podge or tacky glue
mixed with a bit of water. You may have to split the gluing into multiple parts
since the snowflakes are large and you want everything to stick as good as the
rest. After painting the glue onto the snowflake sprinkle with glitter. I used
silver glitter but I think plain white glitter would be really pretty as well.
Really any color would be very pretty, and you can use fine glitter or regular
glitter. The possibilities are endless!!!! : ) After one side of glitter has
dried flip over and do the same to the opposite side. When the snowflake is dry
you’re ready to hang it on your wall or as I plan from my ceiling!
All done!!!!
I hope you guys try this out! Let me know how it went for
you and what you did! I would love to hear!
Merry Christmas and happy crafting!!!
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