Glittery Dried Leaves

by Ami9702 in Craft > Reuse

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Glittery Dried Leaves

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These are some shiny gilded leaves.

Using this ibles you can recycle fallen leaves and create something pretty and decorate almost everything with this.

I hope you all like this project and have fun making one as well.

For this ibles you need:

  • Heavy thick book
  • Dried Leaves
  • Acrylic Paint
  • Pencil
  • Paper
  • Scissors
  • Clue
  • Glitter

Prepare the Leaves

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Put the freshly collected leaves in a heavy book for 5 - 10 days to press-dry them.

Take them out when they are perfectly straightened up.

Template

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Take a pencil and paper.

Fold the paper in half and draw the leaf shape you want.

Cut out the leaf.

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Put it over a leaf and draw around it to get the paper leaf's outline.

Cut the leaf according to the outline.

Paint

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Take acrylic paint and a paint brush. It's better to use shiny colors.

Paint the leaf with golden acrylic paint.

Leave it to dry properly.

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When the paint is all dried up, glue all over the leaf with a paint brush.

Take a strainer.

Pour some glitter over the strainer.

Then gently shake the strainer above the glued leaf.

Then leave the leaf to dry.

Done the glittery leaves are ready.