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Dollar Store Snowflake Door Hanger

12.09.2015

Dollar Store Snowflake Door Hanger 4I must apologize. I have been neglecting you. With all of this Reuben nonsense going on, I don’t have a lot of extra spare time. He’s got me running around, setting up sets, moving mountains, and pouring drinks. He’s been partying nonstop since his arrival, and he only has a week and a half left. I’m sure his antics will only get crazier with each passing day, since he’ll have to get some of this energy out before he goes back to the North Pole and has to answer to a certain white-haired, slightly overweight, old guy in a red suit.

Dollar Store Snowflake Door HangerIn the meantime, I’ve been stopping at the Dollar Tree every week trying to get props for Reuben. Every time I walk through the holiday aisles, I see these pretty snowflakes. Anything covered in sparkling glitter calls out to me. Doesn’t matter if its a spatula or a garden hose. If it’s covered in glitter, I must own it. So of course I couldn’t buy just one pack of these snowflakes.

Dollar Store Snowflake Door Hanger Ten packages later, I arrived home with my loot. I arranged the snowflakes into a pattern I liked and smothered them in hot glue. My glue gun is now covered in glitter too. Looks like it was a win/win for me. Now I’m off…Reuben is calling.

Snowflake Door Hanger

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  1. Bobbie Beckman says

    12.09.2015 at 12:38 pm

    I love this. Same snowflakes I made my seashell ornaments with. Great minds think alike

    • shauna841505@yahoo.com says

      12.09.2015 at 10:03 pm

      I learned from the best. 😉

      • Sande says

        12.11.2016 at 4:58 pm

        Love your stars! Hanger needs a little razzle dazzle though…….silver glitter spray paint! Would love to have you visit my facebook page. I have a Castle that is filled with glitter and sparkle. It’s called “The Castle of Dreams” Love your style! Sande 🙂

        • Mary says

          2.18.2017 at 5:59 pm

          No directions?

          • shauna841505@yahoo.com says

            2.22.2017 at 12:31 pm

            Hi Mary! Sorry, I didn’t really have directions to post. As I mentioned, I laid the snowflakes out on the floor, in a pattern I liked. Then I used the hot glue gun to glue the edges together, where they overlapped. That was about it! I used a string from one snowflake to glue to the top of the set, so it would be able to be hung. 🙂

          • Wendy G. says

            9.29.2018 at 12:09 pm

            Right!!! That’s what I’m looking for too, and how do you hang it up it just says smother with glue ok that’s not enough. Where can we find the instructions to this on how to glue them???

          • shauna841505@yahoo.com says

            9.29.2018 at 10:27 pm

            Hi Wendy! Haha I’m sorry it wasn’t clear enough! I laid out the snowflakes in the pattern I liked (overlapping edges). Wherever an edge overlapped with another, I added a dab of hot glue to the two pieces so they’d stay connected. Then by the end they were all connected. In order to hang it, I hot glued a small string to a piece at the top so it would hang from a hanger. Let me know if you have any more questions!

    • Julie Parks says

      11.27.2016 at 1:55 pm

      I would like to see your Seashell ornament Bobbie,and how you made it
      I’m very interested
      Is this possible ?
      Thanks for sharing

      • shauna841505@yahoo.com says

        11.27.2016 at 10:10 pm

        Julie, Bobbie is my mother so I will see if she can get a photo of it! 🙂

  2. Jamie says

    12.09.2015 at 4:26 pm

    This is gorgeous! I want it for my door! Reuben will probably find a way to climb up and hang out on it 😉

    • shauna841505@yahoo.com says

      12.09.2015 at 10:02 pm

      You should make one!!! You totally make amazing projects!! 🙂

      • Jamie says

        12.10.2015 at 4:14 am

        Maybe I’ll try it out after the holidays! And thanks, but I’m not as crafty as you! 🙂

        • shauna841505@yahoo.com says

          12.12.2015 at 9:59 pm

          Oh my gosh yes you are!!! You have so many talents! 🙂

          • Jamie says

            12.15.2015 at 10:03 am

            Haha you’re too nice! But let’s be real, your “fails” sometimes put my “successful” projects to shame lol!

          • shauna841505@yahoo.com says

            12.16.2015 at 2:03 pm

            Hahaha just the ones I post on here. The real fails I throw in the trash. 😉

  3. Julia says

    12.09.2015 at 10:33 pm

    This is gorgeous! I want to make one immediately!

    • shauna841505@yahoo.com says

      12.12.2015 at 10:00 pm

      You should!!! I made one for a wall inside our house too, I couldn’t get enough!

  4. Alok Singhal says

    12.10.2015 at 7:31 am

    This looks stunning 🙂

    • shauna841505@yahoo.com says

      12.12.2015 at 9:59 pm

      Thank you so much Alok! 🙂

  5. Nad says

    12.10.2015 at 2:09 pm

    Oh my goodness! I totally love it! Looks magical haha ^^ This is how I imagine Elsa from Frozen would decorate her door 😉 <3

    • shauna841505@yahoo.com says

      12.12.2015 at 9:58 pm

      Hahaha she would decorate her whole house like this!!!!!!

  6. chelsea jacobs says

    12.11.2015 at 7:49 am

    It turned out SO pretty!

    • shauna841505@yahoo.com says

      12.12.2015 at 9:58 pm

      Thanks Chelsea!!!

  7. yvonne priewe says

    12.14.2015 at 7:05 pm

    I love it.. Snow flakes on a door… Better than in my drive way.. I seen those and bought some for my xmass pres
    ents they are really neat on certain packages..

    • shauna841505@yahoo.com says

      12.16.2015 at 2:03 pm

      I agree! I love decorating presents with them. 🙂

  8. Trebdmixblog says

    12.16.2015 at 6:21 am

    So pretty and sparkly! I love it! 🙂
    http://trend-mixblog.com

    • shauna841505@yahoo.com says

      12.16.2015 at 2:03 pm

      Thank you!!! You know how much I love everything that sparkles! 🙂

  9. Adele Ankers says

    1.06.2016 at 4:16 pm

    This is wonderful, so modern and unique!

    • shauna841505@yahoo.com says

      1.06.2016 at 4:38 pm

      Thank you Adele! 🙂

  10. Merry says

    9.05.2016 at 4:47 am

    I love snowflakes & this is a simply, sparkly fantastic concept! ???? Guess I’ll be making trips to all 3 of the dollar stores in town to find different types of snowflakes! ???? Can’t wait to see how it turns out! Thank you!

    • shauna841505@yahoo.com says

      9.12.2016 at 8:28 pm

      Ohhh I hope yours is amazing!! You should be able to find them all at one location, just stop by right when the Christmas stuff starts coming out, when the selection is good! 🙂

  11. Christina says

    9.06.2016 at 6:22 am

    Did you use ribbon or how did you hang the Snowflakes? Where these a current purchase at Dollar Tree?

    • shauna841505@yahoo.com says

      9.12.2016 at 8:24 pm

      Hi Christina!!! I did make this last winter, but they typically have all of the same snowflake ornaments each year so I’m sure they’ll still have all of these. The trick is to get there when the Christmas decorations first come out so you can get a good combination of them before they sell out! One of the snowflakes actually had a string/ribbon attached to it to hang it with, and I just kept that on to use it to hang the entire piece! Hope that answers your questions, and hope yours turns out amazing!!

  12. Donna says

    9.25.2016 at 4:32 pm

    Did you just glue them to each other or did you have a backing of some sort to glue them to.

    • shauna841505@yahoo.com says

      9.26.2016 at 9:09 pm

      Hi Donna! I just hot glued them all together! It worked really well, and I didn’t have any problems. Hopefully it works out for you too! 🙂

  13. karen schneider says

    9.30.2016 at 3:47 pm

    so you hot glued them together , no backing?? just paint and glitter and arrange as your directs you – beautiful!

    • shauna841505@yahoo.com says

      10.06.2016 at 4:30 pm

      Just hot glue! No paint, no glitter. All the snowflakes are exactly how I bought them at the Dollar Tree! 🙂

  14. bonnie says

    10.09.2016 at 7:49 pm

    I would really. Like to know what color your door is I love that along with the snowflakes

    • shauna841505@yahoo.com says

      10.14.2016 at 4:41 pm

      Hi Bonnie! I’m not entirely sure what the exact color is, the HOA is in charge of that! It’s just a deep red. Thanks for visiting my blog! 🙂

  15. Audrey says

    10.18.2016 at 7:44 am

    They worked well to on my shell angels and my angel wings just glued them on the snow flakes I made large shell angels and small angels and angel wings. Big sellers at the fairs

    • Charmaine says

      12.08.2016 at 9:26 am

      Hi Audrey,
      Can you please share the shell angel craft? Need something for Church and I am at a loss.

  16. Amy says

    10.26.2016 at 8:34 pm

    Found this on Pinterest- Halloween isn’t done yet but the Christmas section is already growing at the dollar store! I totally made two of these with a friend the other day, added some sparkly blue snowflakes too!! They turned out gorgeous! Thanks for the wonderful idea.

    • shauna841505@yahoo.com says

      10.27.2016 at 2:43 pm

      Oh awesome!!! If you post them on Instagram, tag me so that I can see them! 🙂

  17. Cecilia Jacobs says

    10.29.2016 at 2:52 pm

    Saw this, went to the Dollar Store, found 4 different sizes of Snowflakes,(number of snowflakes depends on size) now I have to get in gear to make one or 2 or more.

    • shauna841505@yahoo.com says

      10.31.2016 at 3:27 pm

      Aren’t they so fun!! I would love to make a lot of them too! I just went to the Dollar Tree and saw a bunch of new fun snowflakes!

  18. Tamara says

    11.14.2016 at 2:48 pm

    SO crafty!! How beautiful! I’m going to run to the dollar tree right now! 🤗❄️

    • shauna841505@yahoo.com says

      11.14.2016 at 3:06 pm

      Haha I hope you found lots of flakes! Let me know how yours turned out!

  19. Shalene says

    11.28.2016 at 11:50 am

    The best crafts I’ve seen came from dollar tree. I’m going to make this today! I need something for my door and this would be perfect

    • shauna841505@yahoo.com says

      12.02.2016 at 9:03 pm

      Oh good!!! I hope you enjoy it! 🙂

  20. url says

    4.24.2017 at 7:03 am

    I like these decorations, they look very sophisticated! thanks a lot for sharing!

    • shauna841505@yahoo.com says

      4.24.2017 at 3:19 pm

      Thank you!!

  21. April says

    10.18.2017 at 9:55 am

    This is so cute. I definitely need to make one. I also love the color of your door. Do you know the paint color?

    • shauna841505@yahoo.com says

      10.20.2017 at 4:15 pm

      I don’t, I’m sorry! It’s a condo so the condo association handles the door!

  22. Mary Katherine Knipp says

    11.11.2017 at 7:08 am

    What did you use to hang the snowflakes on the hangar?

    • shauna841505@yahoo.com says

      11.11.2017 at 6:03 pm

      Hi Mary Katherine! I used hot glue to glue each snowflake to the next one, and then I just tied a string to the top of one of the snowflakes to hang onto my door hanger. There is no backing other than the snowflakes! 🙂 Hope this helps.

  23. Sandra Stanek says

    11.26.2018 at 11:45 am

    Love the snowflake door ornament. Thanks you do great work

    • shauna841505@yahoo.com says

      11.27.2018 at 6:36 pm

      Thank you so much!

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