Introduction: Glittery Dried Leaves
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
Step 1: Prepare the Leaves
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.
Step 2: Template
Take a pencil and paper.
Fold the paper in half and draw the leaf shape you want.
Cut out the leaf.
Step 3:
Put it over a leaf and draw around it to get the paper leaf's outline.
Cut the leaf according to the outline.
Step 4: Paint
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.
Step 5:
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.