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Hi, friends. Welcome back to Cyber Monday live crafting with Sara and JoAnn Pearson. During this segment,
we are going to be making some quirky little Christmas crafts. So what is a quirky Christmas?
I guess I just came up with -- to me, just doing things in different colors. You typically see red or green or gold.
Playing on color, size and scale, and of course adding lots of glitter.
It's fun to have something different than red and green.
That's great. Like Sara's sweater.
When we were on the last segment, Vicki had a comment when we're putting lace on the charger plates.
She wanted to know if you could use kraft tape to hold the ribbon while you are using Mod Podge.
The thing about that is where you put the tape, you can't get that Mod Podge on there.
So I think it's kind of to hold it in place,
to get started in the middle until you get underneath that little bit of concave, that's a great idea.
When you pull it off, you've got to be careful because you are going to pull the lace off.
I would say use your friend's finger.
Crafting with friends. We love it. Sara, I can't wait to see the fabulous trees.
These are my cone trees.
So really pretty basic. Papier-mache cones that we sell in the store in a couple different sizes.
They also double as a unicorn horn which I know you love.
I love unicorns. We are making trees.
Halloween, we will do a unicorn costume. We are going to paint our country whatever color you would like.
I'm going to do this pretty lovebird color.
It's kind of a shade of red.
Kind of a coral color.
Going to put a little bit on our palate paper. Craft paint, just acrylic paint, raising Martha Stewart.
We love this paint does it goes on just about any circus. It's going to stick pretty well.
What size cones are you using?
These cones are about 4 inches on the base. We have a much larger size, about double the size.
Then a smaller one that is probably 3 inches.
These are over in the Christmas crafting department. When you look for them,
not necessarily where the other papier-mache is. You have to look.
They are in both.
I bought up all of these out of the Christmas section. So I went to the would section. There's papier-mache on them.
Is that why there weren't any for me?
That's okay. They are right here.
Everybody can go in. That's really is a pretty tree. The Martha Stewart paint really goes on well in one coat.
Yeah. Feel free to put a good amount on there. So you only have to do it once. Then glitter on top.
If you have any spots showing through, we are going to cover them up anyways.
If it is a lighter color to cover the Brown, you might want to do a second coat. And then you can set them aside
and let them dry. As we discussed before, I like to use a hair dryer to speed up the process.
I know somebody out there is just getting ready to type in, how long does that paint take to dry? 15 minutes or so.
This absorbs the paint. Depends on the different services. Glass and metal might take longer.
Hairdryer will help. If you're going to make a bunch of these, paint all of -- set them out, set them out.
By the time you're done, you can go back and the first one is going to be dry.
You want to make a whole forest.
You love these so much. You want to have a whole little glitter land.
Today is a great day to go to Michaels. We've got loads of great deals.
We love deals.
The daily deals, which are awesome.
You can check online.
So you get the point. Paint an entire color.
We're going to set it aside because my hairdryer would be a little too loud. We have one that is already dry.
You can get high gloss, satin, regular paint --
Do I need to put a sealer on them?
No. If you wanted to, you could do Mod Podge. High-gloss.
I like how it looks like this.
Antique like would be kind of cool.
Antique like.
That's one of those crafting words. So cover your eyes, JoAnn.
We are using buccal Mod Podge. We're going to put glitter on top of it.
I like knowing that there's glitter in the glue.
Nothing is done until you've added glitter.
Why are people afraid of g litter?
It's not like it's going to get in your lungs or anything like t hat.
You could take a piece of tape or a lint roller. I have it all over my house. And when I have it on me,
it's just my sparkling personality.
I don't have to worry about getting it off.
These are a Martha Stewart product. Just a little piece of plastic. It makes it great because you can take it out,
wash your sponge, get it dry.
That's awesome about that. These come in a bunch of different sizes.
There's a great big one and the other. It is nice.
There's a pack of five or six of them.
Again, you could use one side for one color and then turn it over and then wash it out when you are done.
It doesn't matter that you've gotten the plastic piece. It's going to wash out too. Two colors at one time.
I just put some glue on this piece of palate paper. And then taking this, making polkadots.
You can get quite a few before you actually at the glitter.
She's using Mod Podge.
Sparkle Mod Podge. Okay. And you can use -- there's gloss and matte. You can use whatever you want to.
That one is a good. Here's the fun part. So our year -- we are using the glitter.
I have a present for you. There's this little tray.
You can't lose any glitter.
Just dump it right on top and it has a funnel. You can pour your glitter back in. Never lose a piece of glitter.
The other day, I was thinking, I was going to give you a little trivia question.
Like when he was glitter invented and who invented glitter? Do you know that?
I thought you invented glitter.
I wish I invented glitter but I didn't. It really goes back like to the 1800s when a gentleman was grinding up plastic.
And then they even ground-up insects. German glitter was really made out of crushed glass.
So when you find something that looks really antique looking and sometimes -- it's the German glass glitter.
It's not really safe for the kids to use. It's ground-up glitter.
We don't carry that.
We have this fun kid-safe glitter. You can do all different sizes of circles with the sponsors.
You can interchange your colors. Even paint. I'm using gold. Gold is my favorite.
That bottle, something kind of fun in there that you haven't used yet.
This is pretty new in the stores. It is exciting. A split container of glitter. So on one side,
you have really chunky -- it mimics the old glitter that we're talking about.
On the other side, you have fine glitter. Go back and fill in if you have any gaps left.
Facility with the finer glitter. -- fill it in with the finer glitter.
Is there something you can do to keep the Mod Podge from getting tacky? It really will drive.
So it may feel -- it really will dry. And we have a little bit of an audio problem.
We are going to be right back as soon as we get it fixed.
Come right back.
Sera, that glitter makes my heart sing. You know what? Did use show us the other side?
I really need to see the other s ide. And Ariel wants to know, how do you keep the Mod Podge from being tacky?
Arielle, sometimes it really does need to dry overnight or set for a day or two. I will tell you,
there are the different kinds of Mod Podge. The hard coat,
which comes in the purple bottle has a different kind of thicker sealer in it so you can actually -- if you're going
to make a coaster, you could put a wet glass on it and it won't go through.
This should not be a problem with it drying and not being tacky.
A little secret that I did find -- I love my glitter to stay shiny, when you got the glitter on,
you don't need to go back and coat it with Mod Podge.
Sometimes when you go back, even though it dries clear, it makes the glitter cloudy.
And we need the shine to come through. The big chunky glitter is absolutely fabulous. It's kind of retro.
What's even better is I get the chunky and the little so that if you are going to fill it in with something, --
After I did the big chunky, I went back in with the fine glitter and that way --
It covers it up. Even though the Mod Podge is going to dry clear. If you have some questions you want to ask,
be sure -- we are ready to hear them and answer any kind of questions you have.
Now we are going to take our quirky little Christmas trees. I think maybe they should be party hats.
You think?
Before we leave, I want you to show what you did here. These are fabulous.
These are the trees on the stands. A wooden candlestick holder. We painted them black.
The fun part is we took some foam. I'm going to show you a trick.
The glitter keeps excitingly.
This kind of sticks out a little bit. We're going to cut this down.
And cut foam with a ruler.
Did you even decorate your ruler for Christmas?
Everybody should be decorated.
It's a metal ruler, sharp edge.
It's perfect.
You can use a knife, but this is a little bit safer.
And you have it laying around in your craft room.
Sherri wants to know, can I use spray paint for the -- for the candlesticks?
Does Michaels cell it? Absolutely.
We sell all kinds of spray paint. Remember, when you're going to paint with acrylic paint, we can actually paint them inside.
If you are going to spray paint them,
you need to make sure you are spray painting in a well the selected area -- in a well ventilated area.
You can paint them any color.
You could glitter the stands too.
This is matte that you've used on this. If you want it to be shiny,
you can just put a coat of the same Mod Podge on it. A little bit of a shine. These are so cute.
I can punch a hole in these and hang is off.
You can take your Crop-a-dile, you could use scrapbook paper and stick it on the outside.
Look at this one. This is really fun. Did you --
This is glitter drips. I thought it looked like an ice cream cone. I took the Mod Podge and poured it on the top.
Of course, added a little bit of glitter. Once you glue your piece of foam, up into the cone,
it sticks out in a out in a little bit, shave it down.
Take your other piece of Styrofoam and it works as a sanding tool.
That his magic. -- that is magic. You can literally just rub them together. And you can shape
and do whatever instead of cutting it and whatever. So I want a whole forest. We have like hundreds?
We just took some hot glue and -- attach it to the candlestick. We have short ones and tall ones.
You could get a big old candlestick if you wanted to.
You could put these on Mason jars, anything -- I think they look really cute.
They are fun that way. I think we're going to go ahead and move onto the next --
Okay.
On the topic of glitter, just for Jo, we're going to walk you through some different litters we carry in the store.
One of our favorite crafts that we do, all you need is Glitterate and glitter. We sell these ornaments in a store.
They come in a pack of nine more 12. And so fabulous. Notice everything we have is on sale.
Just for you. I did a huge bowl of these for my dining room table with the Browns and goals.
I'm going to tell you a secret, these are the glass balls. We also sell plastic ornaments. Now,
the plastic ornaments are great for the kids because we don't want the kids using the glass ornaments.
We don't want something to break and somebody to get hurt.
But when you put the Glitterate in a plastic ornaments, it will work.
But if you punch it, the glitter pops off. That's why we say --
You would use them in the glass one.
Right.
So this is Glitterate.
I don't think the cap is off --
It's faster. Impatient crafter.
Open the bottle and pour it right out.
It's a very watery kind of glue.
It is magic. Just pour some in your own are meant -- in your ornaments. You want to make sure that you cover all of it.
Where you have a little gap that you want glue all on the inside. I'm pouring mine back in the bottle.
You can keep a little plastic cup, but I poured it back in the bottle.
I'm going to get a glitter Trey.
We've got the glitter Trey. You don't even have to let the glue get tacky or drive. So chunky or fine --
This is what is fun. If you put the chunky in first and swirl it around, then put the sinner stuff in there
and where the chunky does not stick together, -- Abby loves your sweater --
Thanks, Abby. That makes one of you. I was going to ask if you had to pay for that one too.
This is a collection that I've had.
Did you inherit that sweater?
From the greatest cat lady I've ever known.
It's made with real cat hair.
No, it really isn't. There were no cats hurt in the making of Sara's sweater. [Laughter]
Take the glitter and swirl it around. It's going to stick to the outside of the glass.
You could even do a 2-tone. Take another color and pour it on top and shake it around.
When I was doing this, because she's got the two that come out of there, I put my finger -- I wanted --
This does not let glitter out.
It comes with holes in the caps.
So look, I just put my finger over it. If some of it gets out, which it is -- but look at this.
Even at the same time.
It's magic. I love it. I'm going to get another color. I want mine to be another tone. Look at this.
Better to have too much in there than not enough.
Save it. Don't for the glitter away. Even though the colors are mixed together -- two sizes have mixed together,
you are going to see it.
Making new glitter.
That's just it. I'm going to pour the blue inside because I can.
Dump it out. And then you have your very own glitter ornament.
It looks like the world. Aren't they beautiful?
You can use any different kinds of glitter.
Going to get us some more glitter.
I want to show you -- what's fun about this -- when you go into the Michaels store, glitter is in about three places.
If you can find it in one -- it's in the scrap booking department,
in the department where all of the fun Christmas crafting things are, and also over in the kids I'll.
-- in the kids aisle.
This is the really fine -- it's so fun to see these. I'm looking for -- this is one of my favorite colors.
I love the turquoise. And I love that. You know what, Sara?
This is called tinsel. When the camera sees it,
they can see it is like very tiny -- it looks really pretty in the -- look how fun that is.
This is one of my favorites.
We've had one -- with the tinsel.
It gives it a different texture.
This of course is the two-tone -- the paint is really pretty. pretty. It does look like a mermaid costume.
There you go.
Get those on for me, Sara? Could you have that costume done for me by New Year's Eve?
The little teeny tiny microbeads. They work the same way as the glitter does.
If you have a sick enough coat of glue, or even double-sided tape, you could do it on outside of the ornaments too.
That actually is a good thing to talk about. The double stick tape that we carry in the store is red
and it goes on -- when you peel off the top, it is clear. -- you could put that around the outside, peel it off
and shake the glitter on it and then stripes on the outside instead of inside. Look how fun that is.
And then here is the multicolor. Think about,
saving one of your -- I know you are going to empty these out -- save one of the bottles and you can make your own.
Take the little stuff you have left over and pour them in together.
The special blend.
Look at all the colors. What's fun about these --
Look. In my craft room, I can stack them up and make my own little glitter Christmas tree. Look at that. Dutiful.
What more could you ask for? With a star on top. Now, we're going to show you a fun little project.
This next project does not involve glitter.
We are going to give it a little break. When you are done with this, you don't have to let the inside guy.
It is ready to either hang on your Christmas tree or put in a bowl. They look so pretty with a whole bowl together.
Recruit your friends, everybody makes a couple of these and you have a whole tree.
Ready.
I did that for Thanksgiving after lunch. We crafted and they got to learn some new --
This next craft we're going to do is just a presentation -- so you can put whatever you want inside but one of my
favorite parts about the holidays is wrapping the gifts I got for my friends.
Sometimes I spend more on the wrapping than the actual gifts.
For this one we're going to do a little play on words with a tag and play with some mustaches.
My mustache wasn't sticking very well.
We're going to use the takeout boxes that we have. This is our craft takeout box.
I like the craft one because I think it looks kind of cool, c rafty. You can put whatever you want on outside of it.
Endless possibilities.
We also have zebra. Just a little bit, silver, different patterns. So you don't have to do anything to these.
But being the crafters we are, we have to add something extra.
You can literally paint or stamp on it. You can do all different kinds. You could paint.
And then you could write on the b ox. That would give you some --
Right.
So now, you're going to -- this is the kind of fun part. I like the play on words.
This is going to be a session with the snow --
Smashing through the snow.
We actually have these little felt mustaches. If they're out, you can make them yourself.
Just out of some little black felt. Old paper. Or a real mustache.
I love them.
We're going to attach them with some tacky glue.
I love -- I have a hard time getting glue to come out because I don't put the top back on sometimes.
I like to put it on my palate paper.
Unless I need to precisely -- you can use a toothpick or whatever.
I'm going to use my finger.
It helps with small objects to get the glue on the back. And we are going put them on here.
Sara, can I put food in these?
We have some pretzels here. We would suggest you put them in a clear cellophane bag or packaged candy.
We sell treat bags in the cake decorating Department. We can put it down in the fun box.
I would not dump mac & cheese in there.
If they are sealed, fill it with candy or put a diamond ring in, whatever you want.
Wow.
Is that good?
It's actually pretty good.
So -- that's what I needed. A little chocolate.
You want to wash your hands after that. Just place them all over the box. If you want to come up with other things --
You know what?
We could make our own glitter boxes. Mod Podge, putting fun stuff on there.
Just a pretty bow tied on here, you've got the great --
Bakers twine. We have it in the baking section, scrapbook section, a couple other places.
I wonder why they collect bakers twine bakers twine.
I don't bake with it.
-- I wonder why they call it bakers twine.
They used to use just the plain -- wrapped like a turkey leg or something like that. Actually,
they used to -- when you went to the supermarket and they would put twine around your package --
I would not recommend wrapping your turkey --
Probably not. Today is a great day to go shopping at Michaels.
We've got some superduper deals. You need to be sure and check on the Michaels.com and see everything we have.
Use your coupons. Going to the store.
Let us surprise you.
It's as often as we are in the store, we find something new every day. Every day.
So you're going to make --
Yeah. We're going to tie on with bakers twine to add a little bit of a personal touch to do something hand written.
We are all about hand written here at Michaels.
It's kind of nostalgic. Of course we are writing something quirky on here.
Sara, do you make your Christmas presents for people?
I make a lot of them.
I used to think -- I don't want to give somebody something I made because the they thought I was being cheap -- but
people love to get something you made. It's personal for them, you've made it from the heart.
And we are doers.
Creators. It is fun to have somebody say, I loved that necklace that you made for me.
You didn't just go to the department store and pick it out.
Michaels has everything you could possibly want to make crafts for the holidays.
And to wrap them in.
Please come in bags in the scrap booking section. We also carry a punch that I love,
a big punch that's got threes -- three different sized tags.
A lot of you who make crafts, that's a great way to personalize crafts. We have had a great time here.
We've shown you some great crafts. Were going to be live again at 1:00 central time. Sara and I will be back with some fabulous more crafts.