It's All About The Glitter!

 

And do we ever have the choices for you! Finnabair's Art Ingredients includes a wide variety of glittery products...to make sure there's no shortage of glimmery goodness on your projects!

Including five shades of glass glitter:

Six full sets of fine glitter:

and five shades of Art Sugar:

Finnabair's team is so kind to join us today to show off their glittery creativity! We hope you enjoy each of their absolutely brilliant projects!

 

 

 

I decided to create a multi-layered New Year's card. It might seem strange to you - New Year's and there are flowers? :) But I think flowers can be really universal and I hope they make my card look quite original.
I decorated my New Year's flowers with glitter and added some metal embellishments to make the whole design even more unusual. A more traditional deer also got its glitter treatment. :) Elena Smoktunova

My secret of how to add some glitz to your work is really simple: I covered the flowers, all the embellishments and my New Year's deer with Soft Matte Gel. I covered everything with a layer of Glass Glitter. It creates this whole New Year's mood! I used different shades of Glass Glitter. I added some texture to the beautiful snowflakes elements with the help of Soft Matte Gel and Licorice Glass Beads.

Prima Products: Modeling Paste 961350, Soft Matte Gel 961428, 3D Matte Gel 961398, Gold Crackle Texture Paste 961558, Light Pink Art Sugar 961817, Licorice Glass Beads 961688, Gold Rush Glass Glitter 961657, Lace Stencil 961282, Sunrise Sunset  A4 Paper Pad 960094, Mechanicals Flowers Large 960308, Mechanicals Mini Flowers 960322

 

 

Today the Finnabair Creative Team is proud to present our take on GLITTER!  My altered tree features a Styrofoam cone and sticky back canvas as the base. After cutting out the canvas I added Heavy Black Gesso. When dry I used the Netting Stencil and Modeling Paste as the next layer. Then I sprayed with several colors of Perfect Pearl Mists drying in between colors. Linda Cain

Remove the backing and add to your cone just above the scallop edges creating a pointed top. I added strips of double stick tape to the edges to hold it securely.

Using a flat brush, I added Soft Gloss Gel to the the stenciled areas and sprinkled onWhite Art Sugar, White Luminous Glitter, and Platinum Glass Glitter. They all actually have this gorgeous blue shine that comes out in them.

The Mechanicals elements were slightly curved to fit onto the cone. I brushed on Soft Gel and then sprinkled with Copper Luminous and White Art Sugar. The brass color of the Mechanicals nicely contrasts with these Art Ingredients. Two little wooden stars and a large Star Brad were glitzed up with Soft Gloss Gel and Silver Luminous Glitter. They were added to the Mechanicals with 3D foam squares.

The wooden pedestal is painted with Heavy White Gesso first and then, using Soft Gloss Gel, I added Sterling Glass Glitter and Pearl Glass Glitter. It was then glued to the bottom of the Styrofoam cone with 3D Gloss Gel.

The Turquoise Garland was a perfect match for the other blues in the glitters, and the large clear rhinestones add just a bit to the scalloped edge.

Prima Products: Heavy White Gesso 961442, Heavy Black Gesso 961459, Soft Gloss Gel 961435, 3D Gloss Gel 961381, Modeling Paste 961411, Glass Glitter Pearl 961633, Glass Glitter Platinum 961664, Glass Glitter Sterling 961626, Luminous Glitter Set 961596, Art Sugar White 961800, Stencil Netting 961275, Mechanicals Star Brads 961169, Mechanicals Small Flowers 960407, Mechanicals Medium Flower 960315, Mechanicals Washers 961060

 

Let it shine! It's Christmas time! Marta Lapkowska

As you can see, my Christmas cards were created with small wooden pieces. I had quite a lot of those branches in my stash and hundreds of creative visions. I could see the Christmas tree right away and the wooden star came second.

In both cards the backround was created with Prima paper from Finnabair's Sunrise Sunset collection. Here and there, I covered the branches with Heavy White Gesso and while the gesso was still wet, I sprinkled it with white Glitter from 'Ebony & Ivory' set. I was trying to achieve the effect of snow on the wood. I also added some Soft Matte Gel medium sprinkled with glitter.

In both cards the green dots in the middle were made with glue and glitter treated with a hot glue gun. Both cards have some cute Finnabair Mechanicals embellishments. I hope you like my close to nature Christmas inspirations.

 

Prima Products: Ebony & Ivory Glitter Set 961602, Mardi Gras- Glitter Set 961572, Heavy White Gesso 961442, Soft Matte Gel 961428, Aura- Sunrise Sunset paper 960032, Mechanicals Flowers 960407, Mechcanicals Washers 961060, Mechanicals Flowers -Mini 960322

 

Glitter and Christmas go together so well! My house is more or less decorated using only black and white and our tree follows the same color scheme - we've had black Christmas decorations for years now. I was inspired by this color combo and decided to do some glittery ornaments for the tree using Art Ingredients! Riikka Kovasin

I used Art Sugar, Glass Glitter, Glass Beads, and Glitter. Each of these products has their own kind of shimmer and shine to them, and also provides a totally unique surface structure. The coarser the product, the more texture it creates. So if you are looking for a fine, powdery glimmer try Art Sugar and, if you want glimmer and structure, go for the Glass Glitter!

The steps for each decoration are quite the same. First, a coat of black gesso to get the base to the right color. Otherwise if you sprinkle the glitter onto a wrong colored surface, the background color is peeking through here and there and you need a lot of glitter to cover it totally. The easy way is to add a black coat (or any color you are using) first.

The second step, after the primer has dried, is to use the Soft Gel as an adhesive and add the Art Ingredients on top. The gel is easy to spread, but still provides a strong grip for the glitter. You might need a touch more Gel to get the Beads to stay in place, and slightly less when Art Sugar is in question.

The last step is to use 3D gel to construct the ornament or adhere the thread to hang it. Then, all you have to do is wait until the Gel is dry (preferably overnight) and then decorate your tree!

The base of the bauble style ornaments is just a big white paper maché ball. Then using the steps provided 1. add the primer, 2. the adhesive and glitter, 3. and lastly the decorations. For the black one I used black glitter and decorated with a few pearls and a leaf styled Mechanicals embellishment. For the other one I used charcoal Art Sugar and Glass Glitter and decorated with icy branches made with wire and Glass Beads. The dangling one is made using the bottle caps from the Mechanicals line filled with either Glass Beads or Glitter and embellished with star brads.

Prima Products: Art Basics - Heavy Gesso Black 961459, Art Basics - Soft Gloss Gel 961435, Art Basics - 3D Gloss Gel 961367, Art Ingredients - Art Sugar Charcoal 961794, Art Ingredients - Glass Glitter Platinum 961664, Art Ingretients - Glass Beads 961695, Art Ingredients - Glitter Set Ebony and Ivory 961602, Mechanicals - Star Brads 961169, Mechanicals - Tassels 961114, Mechanicals - Leaves 2 961046

 

Can we just give the whole team a HUGE round of applause for their amazing projects, and wonderful tips and techniques they so freely share with us each month? Each one is amazingly talented!

 

 

Comments

[Keren Tamir]

These are glittery beauty!!

[debbie l gregory]

HUGE ROUND OF APPLAUSE!! :):) Love love all the glitter and natural elements. Amazing ideas. HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!
PS Elena, would love to know which deer die that is?

[Laura Strack]

Gorgeous glttered projects, Ladies! Rikka, Your black ornaments & white tree are beautiful and so elegant. Reminds me of a handsome man in a tuxedo :)

[Barb Macaskill]

All of these creations are glittericiously sparkalicious but Riikka's ornaments are to die for!!! I wish my hubby would go for a black and white Christmas theme! I absolutely love that combo. I would even be willing to throw in a little bit of silver and gold as accents but he would never agree. He says that a tree is green not any other color so forget about trying to get a colored tree. I guess I could argue that white is not a color so that solves that problem! LOL
Clapping LOUDLY for all of the designer's creations this past month! Absolutely awestruck by the talent on your team and the products are exquisite! I am so glad that Prima is in my life!

[Barb Macaskill]

I have pinned all of these here: https://www.pinterest.com/macmomma12/prima-glitter-creations-to-die-for/
In my previous comment I forgot to say that it is ALWAYS all about the glitter!!! It is my not so secret addiction! I have an entire wall of glitter all in s&p shakers, cheese shakers, mason jars and lots of other containers! A girl can never have enough glitter in my opinion!

[Elena]

Debbie, the deer is a chipboard. :)

[Elena]

Debbie, the deer is a chipoard. :)

[Milagros C Rivera]

So unique and beautiful! Marta I love your nature inspired cards!!!

[Ann Custer]

Beautiful projects, and I have loved seeing all of the creativity the DT has used this past month. I have pinned all the projects and always stopping by to see what the Prima blog has going on each day. Always so much inspiration!!! And I am so excited with all the Prima products I have waiting under the Christmas tree for me Christmas morning!

[Marta]

aww thank you so much xx

[Riikka]

Thank you Laura :")

[Riikka]

We actually started with black/gold tree and now it has turned into black and white :) Thank you for you sweet words!

[TracyM #6773]

GORGEOUS sparkle & shine and FABULOUS designs!!!
I am clapping my hands along with the applause - you are all SO TALENTED and I LOVE LEARNING from you - THANK YOU :)

[kitika litika]

Gorgeous, amazing creations!

[Helen Tilbury]

Very awesome inspiration. - congratulations ladies!