Glitter Ornaments

When my husband spent time time celebrating his brother's 65th birthday, I decided to have a two-day Crafters Retreat. My piles of  "next projects" are teetering, so I thought I'd see if I could winnow them down a bit by having some crafting fun.

I started by making glitter ornaments.

I learned about this technique on Facebook and Pinterest. I gathered the plastic globe ornaments, some floor wax, and all the glitter I had on hand. Glitter can be so messy, so I covered my surfaces thoroughly. I also prepared my drying racks.

First, pull off the ornament topper. Pour in some floor wax. Swirl the wax inside the ornament so the entire surface on the inside is covered. Drain the excess liquid.

Carefully pour some glitter inside the ornament. Swirl and shake until the glitter covers the entire inside surface. Turn the ornament upside down and shake out the excess glitter. 

Some tips? 

• Swirl the floor wax around the globe instead of shaking it. Shaking causes bubbles to form.
  
• Fine glitter works somewhat better than big glitter. I used up all my big glitter on this project before trying the fine glitter. The fine glitter coated more thoroughly.
• Don't be stingy with the glitter. Adding a larger-than-needed amount seemed to help coat the inside of the ornament better, even if you end up shaking a lot of the excess back out. The excess can be used on the next ornament. For this ornament, I had to combine three colors of glitter to have enough to cover the inside surface.
  
  

Set the ornaments upside down on the rack until dry.

Add the topper back in. I decided to use a 12 inch length of white satin ribbon to tie a bow around the top of each ornament.

Overall, this was a fairly successful operation. I'll need to dig out some nail polish remover to get rid of some sticky spots on the outside of a couple of the ornaments. I used plastic ornament globes. The blue one got smunched in and I couldn't get the dent out all the way. That one I'll keep for myself. But it's pretty nice to already have the 2025 family Christmas ornaments done!

Shhhhhh! Don't tell anyone these are really 10 months late. I'd originally planned to make them for 2024.

Here's one of the videos I used to help me learn:

One craft complete for the Crafter's Retreat! Now ... which technique to pick next?