Thursday, January 9, 2014
Anthropologie Knock-Off Confetti Glasses
A while back, while walking through Wal-Mart I spotted a 4-pack of rocks glasses for $2. At the time I had no use for them, but couldn’t pass up such a good deal and I ended up buying three packs of them. After spending over a year on the floor of my office, I finally pulled them out last month during craft night and transformed them into cute little speckled candle holders.
Supplies: Elmer’s Painters paint pens, glasses, rubbing alcohol
Clean the glasses: Wipe the glasses off using rubbing alcohol to get off any dirt or oil and then avoid touching the surface you are going to paint with your fingers. The paint with stick better to a clean glass. Let the glass completely dry before painting.
Dot Dot Dot: I decided to use three colors for each glass. You can do whatever floats your boat, but any more than three will probably start to look a little busy. But if that’s what you like, dot on sister! Starting with the bottom of the glass, paint little dots up the side about 3/4th of the way up with your first color. Once that layer is dry, use your second color and dot 1/2 way up the glass. Once that layer is dry, use your third color and dot up 1/4th of the way. I kept my dots more concentrated on the bottom my glass.
Note: You could also do this with glass paint using the back of a paint brush for the same effect. Paint pens worked awesome though, because you don’t have to worry about making a mess!
Use them as a decoration or use these to store odds and ends, like Q-tips or pencils. I popped in a cute washi tape covered tea light (check out my how-to on those here) and called it a day.
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