Pretty Paper Snowballs

Winter Sunset

by Dubravko Raos

This artist is from Yugoslavia and now lives in Canada. He paints beautiful houses of the Victorian Farmhouse style, in all seasons.  I have started a series of house paintings on Lovely Whatevers

Today after I caught up on a few things around the house and then did some cutting and pasting,  trying to invent something with paper, and I came up with this snowball.  If you square off a sheet of printer paper, you can follow along and make this. It might be a bit messy, so you can use tongs to handle the snowball.

Scrunch the paper into a ball  with your hand, making edges smooth, if you can.

Paint clear glitter glue all around the balls of paper. This little cardboard box keeps the mess contained.

Then, pour glitter over the glitter glue and roll the ball around a bit in the excess glitter in the box.  This is a prisma glitter from Joann Fabric store called Fairy Dust, and it sparkles the best.

Try using different colours of glitter for different effects.

I had mentioned that I was going to do some sewing tutorials. I still plan on doing that in the future.

Look how you can decorate with paper. These ornaments do not take up much storage space, and they can be eventually tossed out.  I once did an entire tree with white paper and glitter, with shapes like snowflakes, hats, fans, doves, paper doll garlands, and white paper roses.