Nothing makes your kitchen look bright and perky like a bowl of fresh fruit. Once you eat the fruit, or your bananas start to turn brown and barfy the fruit looses it's charm quickly. What if your fruit was bright, chipper & shimmery 365 days a year? Sound too good to be true? Grab your glitter for today's edition of I Love to Create and I'll show you how it's done.
One of my 700 million collections is vintage beaded fruit. Apparently back in the day you could roll up to your local craft store and score some styrofoam shaped like fruit. From there you added sequins and beads using tiny little pins. I can feel the pain in my fingers just thinking about it, so I needed a much quicker and less painful option. Then I had a glitter epiphany.
SUPPLIES
Paint Brush
Tulip Fashion Glitter
Bowl
Aleene's Fast Grab Tacky Glue
Faux Fruit
After prepping my work station a bit I was ready. This project is pretty dang easy: paint, shake & wait. First, I painted the glue on each piece of fruit.
While the glue was still wet I sprinkled a thick coating of glitter on the fruit. Shake off the excess glitter and set aside to dry.
Sure glitter comes in orange and lime green, I just didn't happen to have any on hand and was too lazy to drive to the craft store to buy any. Just like you can mix paint to get any color you want, you can do the same with glitter. I glittered the red apple and shook off the excess glitter into a bowl. I then glittered the banana and the lemon and shook of the excess gold glitter into the same bowl. With a few tosses I had orange-ish glitter. I mixed gold and green to get the Granny Smith apple green.
I j'dore the way the glittered fruit came out. Same kitsch and perk as the beaded fruit, but with a lot less work.
I might even let my new glitter fruit co-mingle in the bowl with my beaded fruit.
***This is a sponsored post by I Love to Create - I was compensated & given free supplies. Mama has gotta pay the bills somehow and really who in their right mind would say no to free craft supplies***
So cute and bright!
ReplyDeletei made ONE once (beaded and sequined ball for a xmas decoration) and it took forever! but it's awesome! these are great for a quicker fix!
ReplyDeleteHi Jennifer! The beaded fruit doesn't send me nearly as much as your robot Ritz man! Please talk about HIM -- he's outa this world!
ReplyDeleteAmy T.
Amy I can't believe I forgot to formally introduce you all to Ritzy. My mom made him for The Renegade Craft Fair last year along with a slew of other recycled robots. He was my very fave and she told me if he didn't sell I could have him. Every time someone would look at him I would give them the stink eye so in the end he came home with me. He is currently sitting in my dining room smiling at the fam with those big false teeth. His body is an old Ritz tin, the legs are screwdrivers and his head an old top. You can see more of my mom (Fredda Perkins) robots here as well as a tutorial about how to make your very own.
ReplyDeleteDeborah I love those ornaments they are so cute. I have an old vintage kit to make an Easter Egg like that I have just not done it yet.
Katie glad you like it. I'm on the hunt for some grapes, strawberries and cherries to glitter next.
Thanks Amy for your flattering comments about Ritzy. I had hoped he would be adopted by a cosmetic dentist but he found a good home with Jennifer.
ReplyDeleteLovely! My motto is: there is no such thing as too much glitter.
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