Gold and Black Glittered Acorns
Do you have Oak trees and acorns where you live?
We have a ton this year and while I'm out walking my puppy I find them everywhere.
Yesterday I stuffed my pockets full of large acorns while trying to keep my puppy from eating them at the same time!
I've made glittered acorns in years past but this time I had another idea.
Take a look...
Like I said, I stuffed my pockets full of acorns, some with caps, some without caps and some were even double acorns. Did you know you can even buy real looking fake acorns on Amazon?!
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Years ago I made orange glittered acorns and they were a hit!
Today I had another idea. Well I had a few ideas, and the first one was using gold leaf flakes from the dollar store but that one was a fail. The flakes were not sticking down like I had hoped. It was a mess!
So the very first thing I did was to hot glue all the caps onto the acorns. Even if they already had a cap I took it off and re-glued it because I just know it would eventually fall off anyway.
Next, I grabbed my gold leaf Rub and Buff. I was going to get these acorns gold somehow and the Rub and Buff worked great.
I painted the Rub and Buff on using a small paintbrush.
Next, I used a regular black craft paint and painted the tops of all the acorns.
Now I was ready for another embellishment so I am using a fine black dust glitter. This one was leftover from my daughter's wedding 11 years ago.
They probably don't even make this glitter anymore but here is a similar fine black glitter.
I used a little clear school glue, brushed it on some of the acorns right over the Rub and Buff then dipped the acorn in the glitter.
I only glittered some of the acorns.
I also glittered some of the caps I had leftover in the same way.
I ended up with a bowl full of gold and black glittered acorns that look beautiful and go so nicely with the colors in my house. The photos don't do the glitter justice!
If you have fine gold glitter you can mix in a little of that too but I was out of gold!
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This is such an easy project and you probably have all the materials you need at home or right outside your front door!
I made this cloche with a textured paint treatment I made a while back.
You may want to bake your acorns in the oven for 30 minutes at 250 degrees to kill any bugs.
You can also spray them with a natural bug spray too. I didn't see any worm holes in my acorns so I skipped this step.
I hope you'll give this easy project a try and if you need any more inspiration, head over to Pinterest, you'll find many decorative acorns in all colors and embellishments!
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