How to Brand Glitter Ornaments with HAIRSPRAY!!

How to Make Glitter Ornaments with HAIRSPRAY!!

Let'south find out how to brand perfect sparkly glitter ornaments for Christmas!

In this tutorial I'thousand going to prove you how to make glittered Christmas baubles using hairspray to attach the glitter.

Please note that this tutorial works best with the baubles that come up in two pieces that you then "printing" together.

If you've got the baubles that just fill with the petty hole at the top rather than ane that comes apart then this isn't going to be the best method for you to cull considering you're non going to be able to spray the hair spray through that trivial hole. There are other ways you lot can do the same kind of technique with those baubles though, for example past using certain floor cleaners or types of mucilage.

Glitter bauble video tutorial

The video beneath shows you how to brand glitter ornaments using hairspray.

If you lot prefer to read rather than picket, keep scrolling for a full step-by-pace tutorial.

Supply list for glitter ornaments

To brand these glitter baubles, you will need:

  • A small tub/plastic container
  • Kitchen gyre to line the container
  • A plastic bauble/ornament that comes in two halves that press together
  • A microfiber cloth or other clean non-static cloth
  • Glitter
  • Hairspray (whatsoever kind)
  • A vinyl decal sized to your bauble
  • Something to bit off excess glitter
  • A make clean paintbrush
  • Ribbon to hang the bauble

How to make glitter ornaments for vinyl

Step 1) Make clean the inside of the bauble

Carefully wipe make clean the inside of the bauble with a microfiber fabric. This is to get remove whatsoever dust or blemishes that might end the hairspray from sticking.

Clean the inside of the bauble

Place the bauble into a small tub that'due south been lined with kitchen roll to help protect your work surface from all the glitter we are virtually to unleash!

Step 2) Spray the hairspray

Spray the inside of the decoration with your hairspray.

Requite it a squeamish fifty-fifty coat so information technology's going to comprehend the entire within of the bauble.

Be careful not to spray the exterior because we don't desire the glitter on the exterior – we just want information technology on the inside.

Spray hairspray into the ornament

Make sure that you've got hairspray upwardly all the sides as well equally in the bottom. Tip information technology upside down to make sure you've not got any drips.

Stride 3) Add the glitter

Working quickly so that the hairspray doesn't dry, sprinkle glitter to the within of the bauble.

I found that the easiest style to do this (with the to the lowest degree corporeality of wastage) is to cascade a niggling bit in and then tilt the bauble to spread the glitter around the edges.

For an "ombre" (slope) effect, use different shades of the same colour of glitter and add them in strips.

Add the glitter

If you go any patches that haven't been covered in glitter, add a bit more than of the hairspray and then add together more than glitter to that part. Be careful to spray from a distance and but spray lightly and so that y'all don't dislodge whatsoever of the glitter that'due south already there.

Leave the bauble to dry for around an hour.

Stride 4) Add a second coat if needed

When the hairspray is dry out, turn the bauble upside down and gently tap it to remove any backlog glitter. Don't be tempted to cascade this glitter back into your glitter pots – information technology's got hairspray in it so it will dodder together.

You may find that your decoration needs a second coat of glitter, especially if you have used pale coloured or transluscent glitter.

If it does, follow the directions from Stride 3 again and and then wait for it to dry once again.

Step five) Seal the glitter

Once you're happy with the glitter coverage and the hairspray is completely dry, it's time to seal it to stop the glitter coming off.

Gently spray the hairspray from a altitude into the bauble then that it covers the glitter to course a layer of protection.

Seal the glitter with another coat of hairspray

Wait for another 20 minutes or and so for that glaze of hairspray to dry out, and and then you can employ your vinyl decal.

Step 6) Apply the vinyl decals

Cut you lot vinyl decals and stick them to the exterior of the ornaments.

I used an image that I found in Cricut Access which says 'Joyful Christmas'.

Add the vinyl to the bauble

The video below has some corking tips for applying vinyl to a curved surface.

Step 7) Clear away excess glitter from the join lines

If you try and put the two halves of your bauble together, yous'll probably notice that they don't fit any more than.

This is because we've covered the "ridge" that joins the two pieces together with glitter, so it's now too small to fit over the other half of the decoration.

To fix that, piece of work out which side of the bauble is the one that slides on top of the other and then use a scraper tool (or something similar) to advisedly scrape away the glitter on the pinnacle ridge of the bauble.

Scrape glitter off of the ridge

Once the glitter is loose you tin apply a clean paintbrush to brush it away.

Brand you simply go downwards to the bottom of the join ridge and no farther because if you go any further then it ways you'll offset making holes in the glitter that you'll be able to see.

Brush loose glitter off the ridge with a paintbrush

Clearing the ridge of glitter won't make a difference to the overall advent because information technology's going to be slid over the matching bit on the other side and so you lot'll see the glitter from that section.

It is definitely worth the time to be very precise on this, so take it slowly. Don't worry if you can't get all the glitter off – as long as the majority of it is off then your bauble pieces should be able to get together.

When I was testing out this technique for the glitter baubles I did effort a couple of other ways of doing this. The outset way I tried was to effort and tape this part before I put the hairspray in with masking tape so I could only pull the tape off but that didn't piece of work because it was just too hard to be accurate enough with the tape that information technology didn't go down within the bauble and it left me with gaps.

The 2d matter I tried was afterward I'd sprayed it with the hairspray, I went effectually with a tissue and simply tried to make clean the hairspray off of this picayune ridge, but again that left me with gaps underneath so I wasn't quite accurate enough and as well it didn't get enough of the hairspray off and then I still ended upwards scraping it anyway.

So even though it sounds a chip counterintuitive to glitter the whole inside of the bauble and then take it away over again, this does seem to exist the best fashion to do it that I found.

Step viii) Bring together the 2 halves of the bauble

Now that the ridge is clear, the two sides of the bauble can be pressed together to seal them.

So at present, hither is my pink lovely glittered bauble with vinyl all prepare for some ribbon so it can go onto my Christmas tree!

You run into there's no gap where nosotros just took that glitter off because you're seeing the glitter from the other side of the bauble.

Pink glitter bauble with Cricut vinyl

I hope yous take enjoyed this tutorial on how to make glitter Christmas ornaments using hairspray!

Happy crafting,

Sarah