Handmade Glitter Letters Sheet Music Garland

November 10, 2011 · by · 23 Comments

I used to hate glitter. But that was when the girls were little and if we had glitter it got EVERYWHERE! I actually banned it from our house for years. I know – meanie. Anyway, imagine my girls’ surprise when we went to Michael’s last week to look for glitter! I had a project in mind, I tell ya!

Wanna know what it was?

 

Handmade Glitter Letters Sheet Music Garland

 

What I used:

  • 15 old hymnal pages
  • cereal, cracker, granola bar boxes
  • Mod Podge
  • Martha Stewart Coarse Glitter
  • Martha Stewart Glitter Glue
  • white paint
  • paint brush
  • scotch tape
  • glue stick
  • clothes pins
  • jute or hemp string
  • scissors
  • glue gun & glue

What I did:

 

Step 1.
Using our standard method of transferring letters (you know, trace it off the computer screen, pencil the back, trace onto the final object), I traced the letters J – O – Y onto the backs of opened up food boxes. I used a rice cracker box, a cereal box and a granola bar box. To stiffen up the letters, I traced two of each – one the right way and one backwards, which I then glued together with Mod Podge. Trim any edges that don’t match perfectly.

**UPDATE. Thanks to one of our readers for reminding me to include the font I used: Engravers MT.**

 Step 2.
I painted each thick letter with some white craft paint and let it dry.

 

Step 3.
Then I “painted” the Martha Stewart Glitter Glue onto each letter and sprinkled on some Martha Stewart Crystal Coarse Glitter. Let dry.

Step 4.
Accordion fold all 15 sheets of hymnal paper (or other book pages). Tape together 3 sets of 5, and then curve each set around to make 3 circles (just like our Scrapbook Paper Banner).

Step 5.
Hot glue a decent sized piece of thick paper onto the back of each circle  to keep the middle from “popping up”. Hot glue your letters onto the centre of each circle.

 

Step 6.
Clothespin each circle onto a piece of jute or hemp string and hang up somewhere that could use a little vintage glittery Christmas bling!

 

I adore this garland…don’t you?

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Comments

  1. Colleen says:
    November 11, 2011 at 7:03 am

    Love it, thanks for sharing the how-to! Where did you trace the fonts from? I trace off the screen too and would love to use the same fonts, thanks!!

    Reply
  2. Chrissy says:
    November 11, 2011 at 1:33 pm

    I love this project too!! I just need to find an old Hymnal. :)

    Reply
  3. Nikki@EverythingUndertheMoon says:
    November 11, 2011 at 4:01 pm

    I love them!!! Such a cool tutorial!

    New follower stopping by from http://everything-underthemoon.blogspot.com. It’d be great if you could stop by and give us a visit and PRETTY PLEASE check out Random Acts of Kindness Week going on all next week. Would love it if you could participate!! http://everything-underthemoon.blogspot.com/2011/11/kindness-and-thanksgiving.html

    Have a great weekend!! :)

    Reply
  4. Shauna@Satori Design for Living says:
    November 12, 2011 at 9:14 am

    Looks beautiful. I just realized you host a link party. I’ll see what I can come up with for next week!

    Reply
  5. funky junk interiors says:
    November 13, 2011 at 12:29 am

    Oh my… what a stunning area. I don’t know what to look at first. I love EVERY DETAIL about this photo! Absolutely gorgeous.

    Shared on FJI Facebook for SNS 107 and pinned. :)

    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150442789441141&set=a.192514281140.164586.175378011140&type=1&theater

    Donna

    Reply
  6. Leigh says:
    November 13, 2011 at 10:35 am

    I love your banner….so beautiful! What size font did you use? Thanks!

    Reply
  7. Pudel - design says:
    November 14, 2011 at 3:55 pm

    Love your space, I`m new here , also thanks for hosting this party;)
    Maybe you will visit me too.

    Lovely greetings…

    http://pudel-design.blogspot.com/

    Reply
  8. Shaunna says:
    November 14, 2011 at 5:13 pm

    It looks awesome! I really love it…and I love your styling on the hutch…those caramel apples. genius.
    :-)
    shaunna

    Reply
  9. Karen says:
    November 15, 2011 at 11:32 am

    Love the banner. What am I doing wrong. I am in microsoft word and changed the font to 500 and can’t get large letters to show up. Any help??? Thanks, Karen

    Reply
  10. Karen says:
    November 15, 2011 at 2:03 pm

    Thanks for your help. Finally figured it out. A question for you. Why can’t you print it out that big. Got the big letter on the screen but when I print it is small?? Thanks, Karen

    Reply
  11. Chrissy says:
    November 16, 2011 at 2:33 pm

    Ha! I have looked for everything else at a thrift shop but not a hymnal, thanks!!

    Reply

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