Glittery snowflakes

Make yourself a merry little Christmas. 24 days of gifts and makes to create a frugal home made Christmas.

DAY TWELVE:

Hot glue snowflakes

Snowflakes Ornaments

You will need:

Clear hot glue sticks

Hot glue gun

Baking paper

Surface that can take a bit of heat

String

Wet glue

Glitter

Method:

Draw out a snowflake shape on baking paper. Keep the shape simple and not too large. You can make a large snowflake but you will have to keep thickening it with the hot glue. A smaller shape requires only a few layers of hot glue.

Using your hot glue trace the snowflake shape. Work from the centre out, and then let it cool. Add another layer of hot glue tracing the snowflake shape as before. Keep this method going until you feel the snowflake has enough thickness.

Add a hanging loop at the top using a dollop of hot glue to secure.

Let cool.

Peel off the snowflake from the baking paper. Pull away any unwanted hot glue strings.

Once cool, using your wet glue coat the snowflake, then before the glue dries sprinkle glitter over the entire snowflake. Let dry. Make sure the snowflake is well covered and there is no hot glue showing. Do this front and back. If you don’t want your glitter to flake off you can also brush over a coat of artist acrylic varnish.

I hope everyone is having a good day or evening where ever you are.