Creating with Glitter at Boone County Uniques

I made some interesting glittery projects the other day while attending a class at Boone County Uniques in Advance, Indiana. 

It was Boone County Uniques' grand opening that day. Besides all the excitement of shopping at the grand opening and attending the fabulous class, the peanut butter cookies were delicious to eat!

Nicki Morrow-Winkles of The Vintage Farmhouse taught the class. She is a great instructor who gives all kinds of helpful information from techniques to where to find supplies.

In the back of the shop is a room that was perfect for holding classes. We were welcomed with our class kits that were packaged so nicely.

I couldn't wait to open it up and see what we were going to use in our projects.

We started by making a German Glass Glitter Bobby Pin. The hair clips can be found at Hobby Lobby (HL), the cardboard stars from Etsy, and Nicki recommends using Elmer's Glue when working with glitter. We first used hot glue to attach the star to the hair clip. Then we used a paint brush to apply Elmer's Glue to the star. And finally, we dipped the star into the glitter. 

Nicki compared two grades of German Glass Glitter: 70 and 90 grit. 70 grit has bigger pieces in it which offers more sparkle where 90 grit has smaller pieces that helps to fill in. She likes to mix the two to make covering a project easier. Nicki suggested using little plastic cups with lids (that can be found at Walmart) for when using glue and glitter.

But the glitter fun didn't end with the hair clip because then we moved onto making a glittery bunny terrarium. We hot glued a piece of styrofoam into a vintage jello mold. Then we hot glued a piece of wired moss on top of it. The moss can be found at Michaels.

We made little flags with Washi tape and toothpicks for the bunny to hold and hot glued paper flowers (found at Michaels) to add some pizzaz. We added glitter to the flag, around the edge of the jello mold and flower, and I put a dab of it in the center of the flower. It was fun to see how different everyone's turned out because Nicki gave us free reign as to how we wanted to decorate our bunny terrarium. Oh, Nicki found the bunny on the Internet from a lot of old-new stock. 

And finally, we made an Easter egg. The eggs came from HL. Nicki painted them white with acrylic paint before the class. She showed us how to stamp the egg with a French lettered stamp. Then we glued on little butterflies created from old book pages. The butterflies were printed and punched with a Martha Stewart Stamp and Punch set. We completed the egg as we wished.

I enjoyed learning some new crafting techniques such as working with glitter and stamping with French script on objects besides greeting cards. It has been great fun to watch Nicki's business grow too. She sells the German Glass Glitter here and will be offering monthly workshops at Boone County Uniques. She has all kinds of neat things planned for the spring/summer, including an Enchanted Summer Market in June. 

Now I'm off to find more glitter projects! I've acquired some vintage molds in recent shopping expeditions I could use...