Since my blog for TP
roll awesomeness, I have been saving rolls like a crazy person. I mean, for real.. I found myself at a friends house and actually happy because she had a few laying around waiting for the trash. I snagged them of course - What? I asked permission, lol. So Pinterest has found its way into my ridiculously busy life and instead of spending any spare minute I have blogging, I have strayed. Thats right, Pinterest is every bloggers best friend and worst nightmare, why blog when you can pin? I have folders upon folders of saved clever ideas... and now a place to put them - publicly! But now I have a stash of pics and DIY's that I have done over the last few months (big thanks for Pinterest and all my fellow bloggers) that I must share to keep this circulation alive! Ah.. anywho, I am getting off subject. So I saw IT…yes, on Pinterest. I have blogged before about painting them different colors but now turned into snow flake?! LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT. *Doing it! Granted I should have actually read the blog it was on vs. "liking" and moving on, but that kinda takes away from the fun of figuring out how. So perfect to use as an addition for my
Christmas Favors :D (as well as a few decoration ideas!). Anyways, I popped a pic up on FB and a few ppl asked me to show how I did
these so here ya go!
Collect TP and Paper Towel rolls - FOR-EV-ER.
With the TP the rolls, they actually evenly cut out every half in. I did the same cut with the paper towels.
Used a glue gun to secure them together. Did about 5-10 as they built up. For the masses; place them on a string for safe keeping. Most of mine were 5-7 pieces, and I did about
5 that were bigger.. two that are about 15 pieces. Once dried, I spray painted them all white -
1 bottle did about 45 snow flakes. That
was kinda tough, I broke a hanger put about 10 on it and sprayed. Took a second hanger and flipped them upside
down and sprayed the rest of the insides (prolly will make that spray paint
stretch a bit more the next time around, have a few ideas to rig it).
The easiest part was the glitter (after a few
trial and errors). My sister suggested I
dip each side in glue and then follow up with glitter. After my elmers glue, probably a hundred years
old, revealed its water consistency we had to change tactics.
Had a few bottles of polycrylic finish in the garage so tried that. Worked!
Next we had a paper plate and started sprinkling on the glitter - hello
time CONSUMING! And I KNOW the pic I saw
was covered and that is what I wanted.
*Flashback to 90's shake and bake commercial* I ran inside and grabbed a
zip lock baggy put glitter in it. I
sprayed the flake with polycrylic before putting it in the bag, shook it up and
sprayed it again to secure it. Also used
workable fixatif when I ran out of the other.
They are drying now, but I couldn't wait to decorate and post so here are a few of the firsts done up already... |
| here is a sneak peak at my house and decor. |
I hope it keeps the glitter on, seems like it is. I also feel like I read somewhere about hair
spray helping keep it on there. Below and at the beginning is two of the FINAL products. :D I thought the big ugly apartment mirror would be nice to hang a bunch on- I'm just getting started!
Craft Cardboard Stars from a Toilet Paper originally found here.
