Try a sticky substance like petroleum jelly, heat it up to liquify, brush on, let dry, sprinkle glitter.

Alternatively, you can get glitter glue at craft stores. The glue will peel off the mirror later. Low temp hot glue will also peel off later.

Another idea, would be to use overhead transparency film (get it at office supply places) and print your saying on it. Then go over with a glue pen & glitter. Affix to mirror with double stick tape and add emebllishments to the taped areas to hide them.

Good luck, sounds like a fun idea!

Sounds like a fun craft!

Instead of writing directly onto the mirror, could you put your design on a large piece of clear acetate or window film and then attach that to the mirror?

Glitter glue? Either a premade glue stick or the classic Elmer's through a stencil with glitter sprinkled on.

Hopefully you can lay the mirror flat or almost flat when you do it.

I think it's a great idea, but I also have a tinsel Christmas tree so my opinion isn't worth much. :P

ya'll are so smart!
I forgot to specify that the mirror is too big to move around, so it has to stay standing while I do this, but you gave me some good places to start/things I hadn't thought of.

I will report back with any success.
p.s.- tinsel trees are awesome.

I'm a kindergarten teacher teacher and we use glitter glue - a lot. I've made outlines on parchment paper, let them dry and then peel them off - they just slide off - super easy. Then you could lightly wet the back of the dried glue saying by brushing with water and slap it up on the mirror. Might work, might not. It's the best I've got.

I wonder if liquid starch would work? I know I've seen where military wives use it with fabric to "wallpaper" the walls temporarily and then remove it when it's time to move. The starch just washes off the walls. So wondering if you could write with the starch and sprinkle glitter on it and it dry the way you want.

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Oh, THAT mirror. Yeah you're not gonna want to move that. Sounds like Daisychain knows her stuff--I'd try that first.

Or you could make a huge mess and spend days cleaning up afterwards. Betcha that's what I'd do.

At Michaels, you can get acrylic craft paint for multiple surfaces, including glass. One of the varieties (pearl, metallic, etc) in the Martha Stewart line is glitter paint. Lots of different colors, 2 oz bottles for about 2 bucks.

When it's time to remove it, lots of products would work. Latex Lifter in a spray bottle is super easy, but it does stink.

I made my first trip ever to Big Lots today, and they had Christmas glitter message and icon dimensional window clings that you can arrange. For mere dollars. Hard to describe, but to me they looked like what you described.

You could probably use spray on glue with a stencil. My wall stencil says you can use the spray glue to minimize bleed, then wash off with simple green. I don't see why simple green wouldn't work for mirrors too.

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I'm going to the craft store tonight to see if I can put all these suggestions into one workable sticky substance.

How about rubber cement? Brush your greeting on, sprinkle the glitter, then let dry. You can use blow dryer on low setting to clear the errant glitter.

Success via tempera paint mixed with glitter.

Here is a link that might be useful: Write with glitter on a mirror