Hi everyone! Today is “Take Two Tuesday”, and I’m back with two mini canvases and lots more ways to use glitter, including mixing it with paint and gel medium!

I love how glitter can really set the mood for a piece — it can look happy, or sparkly, or even frosty.  It can be eye poppingly noticeable or more subtle. This first canvas makes me think of a cold, calm, quiet winter morning, before the sun has come up the whole way.

And, I love how just by tilting a glittered piece you get a whole different look!  Here, let me show you:

Shiny!

I think a little canvas like this would make a great gift — and it was really simple and fun to make.  I actually made it to give to my Grandma since she loves cardinals, but now I think I’m going to have to keep it and make another one for her!  Here’s what to do — supply list follows:

1. Stamp the Design Block Antique Flower Background with Soft Pool Shadow Ink on plain white tissue paper to make a subtle background.  Trim, leaving about a quarter inch extra all the way around.
2. Mix Prisma Glitter with an adhesive such as gel medium or mod podge and paint it all over a blank canvas.  Place stamped tissue paper piece on top, then brush more gel medium over top.  Let dry.
3. Cut out a branch from cardstock and the bird from felt.
4. Adhere the branch to the canvas with more of the gel medium + glitter mixture.  Brush it all over the top of the branch for extra sparkle!
5. Adhere the felt bird to the canvas with gel medium — you only need to put it on the bottom side.
6. Adhere a ribbon around the edge with more of the gel medium mixture.
7. Add Smooth Gemstones.

Supplies:

• Design Block Antique Flower Background
• Soft Pool Shadow Ink
• Prisma Glitter
• Smooth Gemstones
• Other: ribbon (American Crafts), brown cardstock (Bazzill), white tissue paper, red glitter felt, 4×5″ canvas (craft store), gel medium (Ranger/Claudine Hellmuth Studio Line), branch die (digital download from QuicKutz), bird die (Spellbinders — I cut the wing by hand) OR use this template HERE!

I had so much fun making that mini canvas that I just had to make another one!  In this one, I think the glitter gives the feeling that the sun is rising over new fallen snow that’s all fresh and sparkling!

This piece has LOTS of glitter — starting with little bits of Prisma Glitter in the sky and in the tissue paper snow

Diamond Stickles Glitter Glue on the snowman’s scarf

And more glitter mixed into the flock under the trees + snowman, too!

Supplies:

• Small Snowman
• Clear Design Holiday Sayings
• Felt Trees
• Diamond Stickles Glitter Glue
• Prisma Glitter
• Other: 5″ square canvas (craft store), glittery tissue paper (recycled), gel medium, blank canvas and classic teal acrylic paints (Ranger/Claudine Hellmuth Studio Line), sticks (from the back garden), markers (Copic), sunrise die cut (QuicKutz, downloadable for Silhouette), ribbon (EK Success/Martha Stewart), flock (The Craft Lounge), pool cardstock

I used pretty much the same instructions for this canvas as the first.  The only difference is that I painted the sky and didn’t use as much glitter in the gel medium mixture.

Can’t wait to put this little guy on my kitchen windowsill — he’s sure to brighten up these winter mornings!

I’ll be back tomorrow with a video featuring yet another way to add glitter to your stamped creations — can’t wait to show you,

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