Tools Needed:        

o   Matt board

o   Leather Tooling Hole Punch (available at Hobby Lobby with the leather tooling supplies)

o   Glitter

o   Scissors

o   Spray adhesive glue

o   Ribbon (I used thin strips of toile)

o   Dressmakers tracing paper

o   Pencil or pen

o   Newspaper 

·         After you type the word or initial you wish you create in a word document, highlight word and select the font that you wish to use. "Storybook” is an example of a good chucky font, since the best fonts to use for glitter words are ones that are meaty enough to allow for lots of fill in. 

·         Highlight word, right click, select “font” from the menu box. Next select the size of font you wish to use. The drop down menu only goes up to 72 but you can manually type in the size of font you want. I used 650 in the "DREAM" picture above.  

·         Next, while you still have the font highlighted, check the option for “outline”. All you need is the outline of the letter. Selecting “outline” will remove the black fill so that when you print the letters out it won’t take your printer forever and you won’t waste ink. 

·         Print out your letters.

·         Using dressmaker tracing paper, glossy side down, place letter over the matt board, positioning where you want the word to be. Trace over the letter. The tracing paper will mark the letter on the board.

·         Cut our your letter. Scissors really do cut through matt board. Be patient. It takes a little longer to cut than paper and if you guide the board  while you are cutting it makes it easier.

·         Making holes. To thread your word through ribbon, you will need to make 2 holes per letter. Using a leather tooling type of hole punch over a magazine or stack of newspaper, position the hole punch on the initial and hammer 4-5 times until holes are punched through.

·         Place letter on a layer of newspaper and spray with spray adhesive

·         Immediately place letter on a clean layer of newspaper and sprinkle glitter over entire surface. Lift and shake off excess glitter. (By using a clean stack of paper for the glitter, the excess glitter will remain glue free so you can reuse. When you are finished with the glitter, simply fold newspaper in half and hold over glitter container, letting the excess glitter fall back into container.)

·         Repeat with other side

·         To string word together, thread ribbon weaving in and out through holes.