I must apologize. I have been neglecting you. With all of this Reuben nonsense going on, I don’t have a lot of extra spare time. He’s got me running around, setting up sets, moving mountains, and pouring drinks. He’s been partying nonstop since his arrival, and he only has a week and a half left. I’m sure his antics will only get crazier with each passing day, since he’ll have to get some of this energy out before he goes back to the North Pole and has to answer to a certain white-haired, slightly overweight, old guy in a red suit.
In the meantime, I’ve been stopping at the Dollar Tree every week trying to get props for Reuben. Every time I walk through the holiday aisles, I see these pretty snowflakes. Anything covered in sparkling glitter calls out to me. Doesn’t matter if its a spatula or a garden hose. If it’s covered in glitter, I must own it. So of course I couldn’t buy just one pack of these snowflakes.
Ten packages later, I arrived home with my loot. I arranged the snowflakes into a pattern I liked and smothered them in hot glue. My glue gun is now covered in glitter too. Looks like it was a win/win for me. Now I’m off…Reuben is calling.
I love this. Same snowflakes I made my seashell ornaments with. Great minds think alike
I learned from the best.
Love your stars! Hanger needs a little razzle dazzle though…….silver glitter spray paint! Would love to have you visit my facebook page. I have a Castle that is filled with glitter and sparkle. It’s called “The Castle of Dreams” Love your style! Sande
No directions?
Hi Mary! Sorry, I didn’t really have directions to post. As I mentioned, I laid the snowflakes out on the floor, in a pattern I liked. Then I used the hot glue gun to glue the edges together, where they overlapped. That was about it! I used a string from one snowflake to glue to the top of the set, so it would be able to be hung.
Right!!! That’s what I’m looking for too, and how do you hang it up it just says smother with glue ok that’s not enough. Where can we find the instructions to this on how to glue them???
Hi Wendy! Haha I’m sorry it wasn’t clear enough! I laid out the snowflakes in the pattern I liked (overlapping edges). Wherever an edge overlapped with another, I added a dab of hot glue to the two pieces so they’d stay connected. Then by the end they were all connected. In order to hang it, I hot glued a small string to a piece at the top so it would hang from a hanger. Let me know if you have any more questions!
I would like to see your Seashell ornament Bobbie,and how you made it
I’m very interested
Is this possible ?
Thanks for sharing
Julie, Bobbie is my mother so I will see if she can get a photo of it!
This is gorgeous! I want it for my door! Reuben will probably find a way to climb up and hang out on it
You should make one!!! You totally make amazing projects!!
Maybe I’ll try it out after the holidays! And thanks, but I’m not as crafty as you!
Oh my gosh yes you are!!! You have so many talents!
Haha you’re too nice! But let’s be real, your “fails” sometimes put my “successful” projects to shame lol!
Hahaha just the ones I post on here. The real fails I throw in the trash.
This is gorgeous! I want to make one immediately!
You should!!! I made one for a wall inside our house too, I couldn’t get enough!
This looks stunning
Thank you so much Alok!
Oh my goodness! I totally love it! Looks magical haha ^^ This is how I imagine Elsa from Frozen would decorate her door
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Hahaha she would decorate her whole house like this!!!!!!
It turned out SO pretty!
Thanks Chelsea!!!
I love it.. Snow flakes on a door… Better than in my drive way.. I seen those and bought some for my xmass pres
ents they are really neat on certain packages..
I agree! I love decorating presents with them.
So pretty and sparkly! I love it!
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Thank you!!! You know how much I love everything that sparkles!
This is wonderful, so modern and unique!
Thank you Adele!
I love snowflakes & this is a simply, sparkly fantastic concept! ???? Guess I’ll be making trips to all 3 of the dollar stores in town to find different types of snowflakes! ???? Can’t wait to see how it turns out! Thank you!
Ohhh I hope yours is amazing!! You should be able to find them all at one location, just stop by right when the Christmas stuff starts coming out, when the selection is good!
Did you use ribbon or how did you hang the Snowflakes? Where these a current purchase at Dollar Tree?
Hi Christina!!! I did make this last winter, but they typically have all of the same snowflake ornaments each year so I’m sure they’ll still have all of these. The trick is to get there when the Christmas decorations first come out so you can get a good combination of them before they sell out! One of the snowflakes actually had a string/ribbon attached to it to hang it with, and I just kept that on to use it to hang the entire piece! Hope that answers your questions, and hope yours turns out amazing!!
Did you just glue them to each other or did you have a backing of some sort to glue them to.
Hi Donna! I just hot glued them all together! It worked really well, and I didn’t have any problems. Hopefully it works out for you too!
so you hot glued them together , no backing?? just paint and glitter and arrange as your directs you – beautiful!
Just hot glue! No paint, no glitter. All the snowflakes are exactly how I bought them at the Dollar Tree!
I would really. Like to know what color your door is I love that along with the snowflakes
Hi Bonnie! I’m not entirely sure what the exact color is, the HOA is in charge of that! It’s just a deep red. Thanks for visiting my blog!
They worked well to on my shell angels and my angel wings just glued them on the snow flakes I made large shell angels and small angels and angel wings. Big sellers at the fairs
Hi Audrey,
Can you please share the shell angel craft? Need something for Church and I am at a loss.
Found this on Pinterest- Halloween isn’t done yet but the Christmas section is already growing at the dollar store! I totally made two of these with a friend the other day, added some sparkly blue snowflakes too!! They turned out gorgeous! Thanks for the wonderful idea.
Oh awesome!!! If you post them on Instagram, tag me so that I can see them!
Saw this, went to the Dollar Store, found 4 different sizes of Snowflakes,(number of snowflakes depends on size) now I have to get in gear to make one or 2 or more.
Aren’t they so fun!! I would love to make a lot of them too! I just went to the Dollar Tree and saw a bunch of new fun snowflakes!
SO crafty!! How beautiful! I’m going to run to the dollar tree right now!
Haha I hope you found lots of flakes! Let me know how yours turned out!
The best crafts I’ve seen came from dollar tree. I’m going to make this today! I need something for my door and this would be perfect
Oh good!!! I hope you enjoy it!
I like these decorations, they look very sophisticated! thanks a lot for sharing!
Thank you!!
This is so cute. I definitely need to make one. I also love the color of your door. Do you know the paint color?
I don’t, I’m sorry! It’s a condo so the condo association handles the door!
What did you use to hang the snowflakes on the hangar?
Hi Mary Katherine! I used hot glue to glue each snowflake to the next one, and then I just tied a string to the top of one of the snowflakes to hang onto my door hanger. There is no backing other than the snowflakes!
Hope this helps.
Love the snowflake door ornament. Thanks you do great work
Thank you so much!