Well, as promised I am showing you what I come up with for all of those beautiful crystals I recently came home with! This is a fun, vintage style, ornament.
To make these I used those little “jiffy pots” you can buy at a nursery or lawn and garden store. I used a 2 1/4” size. Also some white and silver acrylic paint, some coffee dyed lace ribbon, foil glitter and rubber stamps for the letters.
First paint the pot white, let dry. I sanded away some just to give more a worn look. Then I just free hand painted some silver on the tops and while the paint was still wet sprinkled on some “foil glitter” . TIP: When I used the foil glitter I thought it looked to cheap and “new” so I experimented! I hit it with my heat gun! O wow, i love what it did! It kinda curls and forms to the piece and “tarnishes”—giving it a more aged look! Be careful! It will begin to smolder though! But held there just long enough, it will even get a brown tone to it. Really fun to do and the foil glitter is so cheap to buy!
Then I just stamped on “PARIS”, wired the crystal to my ribbon hanger and DONE! Hope you like them and maybe even try some yourself! Would be fun for me to see what you come up with too….so email me some pictures!
2 comments:
How fabulous! Will you come over and decorate my studio?!!!
Hey that's pretty cool!
Smiles-
M
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