I'm very excited to have partnered with Gleeful Peacock Mercantile to host Pinterest Parties throughout 2013!!! Be sure to go check out her darling little shop on Brookside in Tulsa.
4240 S Peoria
Tulsa, Oklahoma 74105
We've already had one party at Gleeful Peacock Mercantile where she hosted a Christmas themed Pinterest Party. We made several cute items including this Christmas card garland!
We made several very Christmasy garlands, but for the purpose of the tutorial I made rainbow clothespins so I could keep it up all year long. Now I can use it to hold mail (icky bills), and groupons/vouchers for date nights (yay).
What you will need:
8 Clothes
pins (come in packs of 32 at the Dollar Tree)
Ribbon (I
used about 1 ½ yards, 4 ½ feet)
Hot Glue
Diamond
Glaze (Did not find this at box stores, I went to a locally owned bead shop to
find this.)
(If you are in Broken Arrow,
Oklahoma, check out Beadles near Main Street)
Glitter
Paper
Plates (I also used wrapping paper over
my work surface to help contain the glitter)
Foam Brush
Tiny Paint
Brush
Slightly
Watered-down Glue (or Mod Podge – I just ran out! Who does that?!)
3 Thumb Tacks
Step One:
I use paper plates to shake the glitter back and forth so that it is easier to pour back into those teeny-tiny bottles when I’m done.
Step Two:
Apply a layer of glue to the top of the clothes pin using your foam brush –it
should be even and not gloppy.
Step Three:
Pour Glitter
All Over
Shake off
the excess glitter. If you see bare
spots, usually around the outside edges, then gently apply more glue using the
tip of your foam brush and sprinkle more glitter on top. Make sure you shake the excess glitter of
again, after you touch up. Set the clothes pin to the side and continue with
the other 7 exactly like this.
I did two
clothes pins each of 4 different colors so I did both at the same time. It’s
great to assembly line things when you can.
Step Four:
Add the
Glaze
Working with
one clothes pin at a time, after I was sure the glue was dry, I put about 7
drops of the diamond glaze on each clothes pin and used my small paint brush to
smooth it out to the edges. Be sure to
push out any bubbles that you see because you can’t get rid of them once the
glaze dries.
I found it
helpful in preventing bubbles to keep my diamond glaze on its side in one hand
while I used the paint brush in the other.
Make sure
these are dry before you try to hang them up. In the meantime jazz up your
thumbtacks.
Step Five:
Beautify
your Thumb Tacks
Hot glue a
button to the top of each thumb tack.
Odds are you will pop the button off the first time you try to press
them in the wall so keep your hot glue gun ready, just in case.
Step 6:
Assembly
Hang your
ribbon along the wall with a thumb tack in the middle and one on each end. You
can hang your ribbon horizontal or vertical.
I’m thinking I will rehang mine vertically by the front door to catch
mail and other things that are coming and going. (Our walls are a bit barren in the living
room, so this garland hanging horizontally seems a bit off to me,
proportionately speaking.)
Add your
cards, bills, kids drawings, or anything else you want using the clothes pins
spaced around the garland. And you are done!
-Go Have Fun
With It!
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