Spring is THE time to experiment with color and I felt like letting my inner garden party goddess come out on this one. Inspired by the milk glass vases in my previous post, I wanted to try my hand at creating some beaded glass with color. I came across this amazing tutorial for beaded glass at Damask Love and had to try it myself. Of course, I went with creating two of my favorite things- candle holders and a vase.
I started by dotting on clear transparent paint onto plain glass candle holders. The paint goes on white but it dries clear.
I set this candle holder upside down on top of a candle jar so that I could rotate it by turning the candle jar and then leave it there to dry. I used random odd objects from around my apartment for propping up each candle holder like this.
After letting the dots dry for 24 hours, I painted the candle holders with colored transparent glass paint.
Now this part is really cool. I used the Martha Stewart Glass Spray Paint Kit to turn the glass paint into spray paint. Pretty neat, right? It comes with glass medium, an aerosol can, and a bottle. All it required was mixing the glass medium with transparent glass paint in a 1:1 ratio then attaching the aerosol can to the bottle. Unlike regular spray paint, this stuff doesn’t need to be shaken throughout use, so I just sprayed each candle holder straight on through.
The paint looks cloudy when first sprayed, but turns transparent after it dries. I sprayed on two coats of paint for each candle holder before letting them all dry for a day.
I couldn’t decide whether or not I wanted to go with teal or more of a true blue, so I went with both! For once I’m glad I was indecisive because I’m loving how both colors look together.
And as for the vase…
I dotted this round vase the same way with the clear paint but spray painted it gold instead of going with the glass paint. Yup, it’s hard for me to resist adding gold to anything.
A bit of a different project for me, but I’m excited to be dipping my decorating feet into color this Spring, especially with flowers. I’m loving the flowers in this arrangement and how they pop next to the blue and teal. Seriously, makes me want to have a garden party.
So there’s more… some other talented bloggers have posted Spring decorating projects as well and we’ve all come together for a blog hop!
We‘re also hosting a Spring giveaway for a $150 Target gift card! Enter below in the Rafflecopter widget and make sure to hop around to all the other blogs linked at the end of this post to see what everyone created! Good luck and happy Spring :).
The Turquoise Home | Tiny sidekick | The Blissful Bee
Making Home Base | One Krieger Chick | Design, Dining and Diapers
Just a Girl and her Blog | Designer Trapped in Lawyer’s Body
The Happy Housie | Place Of My Taste | Create Craft Love
This Is Happiness | Homey Oh My | House by Hoff
LOVE how these turned out! Pinning for sure.
Wow! Great results! Totally looks like it was originally made that way!
Looks so pretty! Love it!
The home section is my favorite section – then clothes!
I love the home section!
I love these. I am thinking of doing a candle lit theme for my Halloween/fall crafts this year. Maybe I will try these out.
These turned out so fabulous! I cannot believe how pretty they are! So creative. Pinned as well : ) The home section is my favorite at Target- it’s a very dangerous spot to go though for my wallet haha
I love everything about this project, Amy! The fun vase and the beautiful flowers in my favorite colors. So pretty!
This is gorgeous,Amy! And so beautifully photographed! Pinnig! Have a great weekend!
OMG – this is awesome, Amy! I’m totally envisioning some faux milk glass with this stuff! Excited to be participating in this giveaway with you! Pinning!
Really pretty. This is on my list for Mother’s day gifts.
Hi Amy! I don’t think I have ever commented on your blog before, but I stalk it often and ADORE all of your ideas! I am in awe of your creativity. This is another fabulous project. I can’t wait to try it. So happy to be part of this blog hop with you!
So pretty Amy! Such a cute idea!!
These are stunning Amy! And super creative, to do the dots and then paint over them!! I need to pin this to remember to give ‘er a whirl!!
lovely job. i might need to give this a try.
The result is amazing! They look like store bought!! Great DIY!
Oooh so pretty!! I have a whole bunch of glass paint just sitting around in my craft room just waiting to be used, and I would love to do something like this! Great job! It was fun being on this “hop” with you! Have a great weekend!
~Abby =)
i love the home section
I love the candle holders! I can’t wait to try this. Great idea!!!
Home Section is my favourite.
I love the blue and the teal, combo. And can’t go wrong with a touch of gold. Great project.
Wow…I have no idea how you made the dots so perfect! Looks amazing!
Have a greak week!
~Ariean
Amy these turned out so pretty! I just had a major fail with that glass paint, but used the frosted kind. Think I need to try the transparent! Love these :)
I so love the gold and your arrangement! I just adore all of your metallics :) Thank you so much for linking up at Thursday STYLE! Hope you are having a great week!
Home home home!
LOVE this and your photos are always so beautiful I just can’t get over it! Pinned :)
you’re soo creative, i love how it turned out, especially the gold vase :D
Amy, these are just GORGEOUS! And that spray kit is amazing :)
These are GORGEOUS, Amy! (And your flowers!!!) Those Martha Stewart paints are super cool! Will you stop making me want to buy more paint, please? This is going to be a problem for my happy home life. Hahaha… :)
Lol! Well I chose you again without knowing. Out of 200+ projects, yours keeps standing out to me, even though I have no idea who does the project until I click on it. Keep up the fab projects!
holy shit Amy, you’re amazing.
What a fantastic tutorial! I am always so amazed by your blog! This is being featured at this week’s link party. http://www.thelifeofjenniferdawn.com/2014/04/a-little-bird-told-me-link-party-88.html
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