One way to use WOW! Sparkles glitter is to create your own glitter paste. This is a great technique to make no shed glitter cards as the Sparkles is bound by the paste medium. Of course, I’ve used one the WOW! Sparkles Essentials colours, but you can choose any colour you like and as many colours as you like! You can create your own custom blend of glitter paste, so get creative! Make sure you follow me on Instagram as I’ll have fun reels on this!
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Creating your own glitter paste
Position the Confetti Heart Stencil over a white card base, keeping in place with either washi tape or repositionable tape. Next, on a non-porous surface such as a glass mat, add some Textured Paste -Transparent matte with a spatula onto the mat.

Add and mix into the paste WOW! Copper Fire Sparkles. Make sure you add enough for good coverage of the sparkles but do not add too much as you still want a fairly wet mixture. If you add too much sparkles, it will become hard to mix and dry.

Adding your own glitter paste to the card
Next, apply your homemade glitter paste through the openings of the Confetti Heart Stencil . Once you had complete cover the stencil design, remove the stencil and clean this along with the spatula to prevent any excess paste drying on your stencil.

Once the paste has dried, stamp in Black Oynx Versafine ink the script ‘Happy’ from the A7 Happy Sentiments stamp set. In addition, heat emboss a small sentiment from the stamp set in WOW! Opaque Bright White embossing powder onto black cardstock. Finish the card by foam mounting the sentiment onto the card.

Create your own glitter paste
Supplies
Affiliate links used at no extra cost to you at these shops: Altenew (ALT), Scrapbook.com (SB), Hero Arts (HA), Picket Fence Studios (PF), My Favourite Things (MFT), Tonic Studios (TS UK/US), WOW! UK/US (WOW UK/US), and Craft Stash UK/US (CS UK/US).
All other shops are not affiliated links: Bumbleberry Papercrafts (BP)
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![]() Happy Sentiments – WOW! (Inspired by Verity Biddlecombe) Shop at: WOW (UK) | ![]() A7 Sentiment bundle – WOW! (Inspired by Verity Biddlecombe) Shop at: WOW (UK) | ![]() Confetti Heart Stencil – WOW! (Inspired by Verity Biddlecombe) Shop at: WOW (UK) |
![]() Stencil bundle – WOW! Shop at: WOW (UK) | ![]() Versafine Onyx Black Ink Shop at: SB | CS (UK) | CS (US) | ![]() WOW! Clear ultra slow drying embossing ink pad Shop at: CPD | CS (UK) | CS (US) | WOW (UK) | WOW (US) |
![]() WOW! Clear ultra slow drying embossing ink refill Shop at: CPD | CS (UK) | CS (US) | WOW (UK) | WOW (US) | ![]() WOW! Clear ultra slow drying embossing ink pad & refill Shop at: CPD | CS (UK) | CS (US) | WOW (UK) | ![]() Opaque Bright White -WOW! Embossing Powder Shop at: CS (UK) | CS (US) | WOW (UK) | WOW (US) |
Copper Fire Sparkles – WOW! Shop at: CS (UK) | CS (US) | WOW (UK) | WOW (US) | ![]() Texture Paste – Transparent Matte – Ranger Ink Shop at: SB | CS (UK) | CS (US) | ![]() Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 110lb Cardstock Shop at: SB | BP | LPT |
![]() Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 80lb Cardstock Shop at: BP | ![]() Black Velvet Satin Mirror Craft Perfect cardstock – Tonic Studios Shop at: CS (UK) | CS (US) | WOW (UK) | WOW (US) | ![]() Original MISTI 2.0 – My Sweet Petunia Shop at: ALT | CPD | SB | HA | BP |
![]() Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive – Tonic Studios Shop at: HA | LPT | ![]() Instand Dimension foam Tape – Altenew Shop at: ALT | SB | BP | ![]() WOW! Dual Speed Heat Gun (UK version) Shop at: CS (UK) | WOW (UK) |
![]() WOW! Dual Speed Heat Gun (US version) Shop at: CPD | WOW (US) | ![]() Crafter’s Essential Bone Folder – Altenew Shop at: ALT | SB | BP | ![]() Tim Holtz 8.5 Inches Comfort Trimmer – Tonic Studios Shop at: SB | CS (UK) | CS (US) |
![]() Trim and Score Board – We R Memory Keepers Shop at: SB | CS (UK) | CS (US) |
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This post was produced as part of my design team work for WOW! Embossing Powders have not been paid to make this post, but I am given supplies from WOW! Embossing Powder to use. However, I create projects with creative control and produce projects I am proud of and with products that I love. The information provided is based on my own personal experience – I am not an expert.
2 thoughts on “Create your own glitter paste – No shed glitter!”
brilliant idea – thanks for the inspiration!