Add enchanting sparkle to your garden this year with this easy DIY craft project! You can create these in no time at all! Make plenty of them to light up your planters or your garden this summer!
You will need some round glass containers, a gray, white or silver crayon, and some silver glitter glue. You will also want some rubbing alcohol and a small paint brush. Begin by washing your glass containers well, and then use some alcohol on a paper towel to wipe down the glass. That will remove any oil from you handling it from the glass.
Take your crayon and begin to draw vertical stripes on your glass bowl. They do not need to be exact in any way. Just draw them from the opening to the base of the bowl to begin with.
After you have drawn vertical lines all around your bowl, go back and begin drawing some diagonal lines all the way around.
Your glass bowl should begin to look like this. You can see there are some spots that are larger than a quarter that are just clear glass. This means I need to add more lines to my glass jar.
When your bowl looks something like this, you are ready for the next step. Don’t forget to draw with the crayon on the bottom of your bowl, too.
Put a generous amount of the silver glitter glue out on a paper plate and get ready to “paint” it onto your bowl with the paint brush. You will want to paint it in “X” or cross hatch lines all over your jar.
. Be generous in the amount of glue you use. You also want to make sure that ALL of your bowl is completely covered with the glue, even if it doesn’t have the glitter in those spots. The glue will give an opaque look to your bowl. You don’t want any clear glass left when you are finished.
To make sure your glitter finish remains intact, you will need to seal it
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