This vase is part of a family room makeover I did for a
friend. We were challenging ourselves to
stick to a strict budget, so I came up with some fun projects like this
one. The vase was free (part of a floral
arrangement I received), the faux gems were leftover from last Christmas, and
the can of faux stone spray paint was $9.99.
I realized I probably could have bought a cream vase for around the same
price of the spray paint, but it would not have been nearly as fun ;o)
(In my defense, I still have half
a can of spray paint left, so in theory I only used $5 worth and have enough
for another project.)
I started with this plastic yellow vase. The idea of this project was to embellish it
for texture and paint it with a spray paint.
The result is a textured faux stone look.
Supplies
1.
Plastic Vase (or a vase of any material that is
easily paintable)
2.
Sand Paper
3.
Faux Gems (color does not matter – they are just
for texture)
4.
Marker and Ruler to draw design on base.
5.
Glue (I used hot glue, but I recommend another
adhesive so you don’t have to worry about the ‘strings’ from the hot glue gun
mucking up your project)
6.
Spray Primer
7.
Spray Paint (I
used Valspar Stone purchased at Lowe’s).
You could go with a standard high gloss spray paint, but you would have
to be really neat and clean when gluing on the faux gems. As I mentioned above, if you use a hot glue gun,
this could be really tricky. The
textured spray paint covers up a little bit of a mess with the glue.
Steps
1.
Lightly sand the vase first. It will help primer/paint adhere
2. I drew a few lines around the vase to give me a
guide when gluing the faux gems. Use the
technique in the photo below – attach the marker to the ruler and spin the vase
to draw a consistent line.
4.
Prime the vase.
If you look closely at the photo below, you can see how I did not initially pay attention to the hot
glue strings. As a result you can see this when the primer was applied
(Uggghh). It really looked awful. I spent a lot of time peeling off pieces of
glue with tweezers to clean it up. Next
time I’ll use a different type of adhesive.
I should have stuck with my all time favorite 'Weld Bond Glue'.
Here it is on the mantle filled with red berries... :o)
Beautiful!
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