Glitter Jitters

You can add a dash of pizzazz to your layouts with these quick tips and tricks using glitter!

Spray it on. Translucence glitter spray paints add playfulness to plain chipboard letters or flowers. Several thin coats of glitter provide more consistent coverage than one of two heavy coats. To minimize your mess place you project inside a shallow box before spraying. This will help keep the glitter from getting on the surrounding surfaces.

Contain loose glitter. Watch crystals filled with loose glitter and backed with paper make delightful embellishments. Apply wet glue to the rim of the watch crystal to secure the paper without gumming up the glitter. For easy clean up use disposable dust cloths to wipe up stray glitter.

Cover a masked image. Create any masked image such as stickers to card stock cover the entire surface with wet glue and sprinkle glitter over the surface. When dry take tweezers and peel off the stickers. Again to save a mess place your project in a shallow box beforehand. The more details your mask the finer glitter you will need. If your mask has tiny elements and ultra-fine glitter is the best choice so your mask stays crisp.

Seal it up.  Cover your chipboard letters in glitter and cover with dimensional adhesive to make sure those glitter flakes stay put. Camouflage the gaps between the glitter by pre-painting the chipboard letters the same colour. Using a foam brush, Brush the glue onto the chipboard letter then sprinkle dry glitter overtop. Again, doing so in a shallow box to avoid a mess. Once everything has dried make sure to apply dimensional adhesive to prevent the glitter from flaking. You can also spruce up your paper or patterns by accenting with glitter glue.

Stamp with glitter. Forget the ink pads and use glue when stamping your pages with your customized glitter print. Go monochromatic. To keep large applications of glitter from over powering your page borrow a colour from your background when stamping bold designs. Brush glue over the stamp and stamp the image onto your page. Work quickly so the glue doesn’t dry. Sprinkle glitter over the stamped image while glue is still wet. For best results allow your glue to fully dry before brushing off any excess glitter off. Use a long bristled brush to remove unwanted glitter without disrupting the other elements of your page.

Highlight details in a photo. Use a glue pen to draw over specific details in a photo and cover the adhesive with glitter. This will make the details of the image pop out. Pick a colour. When accenting a busy portion of a photo keep other colours and pattern to a minimum. Repeating the same colour of glitter elsewhere on the page will also direct your eye around the page. Work quickly so the glue doesn’t dry. Sprinkle glitter over the design while glue is still wet. For best results allow your glue to fully dry before brushing off any excess glitter off. Use a long bristled brush to remove unwanted glitter without disrupting the other parts of your page.