Who doesn't love glitter. I think there is always an excuse to bling up a project with a bit glitter. I've been stewing over this idea for a while now, and a bit of yuck weather is the perfect opportunity to give it a go. I don't know about you but I need glitter felt balls in my life and wasn't quite sure where to start, so an experiment was in order! I popped down to my local craft shop and bought every glitter fabric or standard glitter paint I could get my hands on. Those turned out to be: Derivan Acrylic Gold Glitter $5.99 DecoArt Glamour Dust- Gold Glitz $7.99 DecoArt Craft Twinkles- Champagne $7.99 Other bits I used were Wooden skewers Paint Brush White Felt Balls With supplies at the ready, off I went. To get started I pushed the felt balls onto the skewers, then with each paint, painted each of my three felt balls. The Derivan had quite chunky glitter and I needed to put quite a lot on for a good coating of glitter. The Glamour Dust has a yellow tint to the paint, I hoped it would dry clear but it didn't. It was quite difficult to see where the glitter was. The Craft Twinkles was very promising, fine glitter with good coverage. Once dry, they all have quite different looks, and I can see more application of paint would change them all again, depending what you want to do with them. I was pleased to find the glitter is firmly fixed to each, with only a slight bit of shedding. As you can see, the Derivan was quite patchy, it the glitter was a great bright gold colour. The Glamour Dust did have a background colour and the glitter was fine and sparkly. The Craft Twinkles was my pick, a great colour and coverage and a plus it comes in a 11 different glitter colours. I hope you have fun with this, I'll really did. Next up, using these for a few cute projects. Happy crafting, Bex. Xx
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