Monday, January 20, 2014

A little different tutorial-"glitterizing" wine bottles and other glass things

I have just recently gotten a vanity.  I used to use just a makeup train case and bags and carry all my makeup to the bedroom or the living room, wherever I felt like doing my makeup.  Well, I got tired of it so I re-purposed an old desk to make it a vanity.  I needed some decorations and figured I would just put glitter all over some empty wine bottles and mason jars that I had lying around.  I did a few for living room decorations as well. 
First off, you'll need a bunch of supplies.  You will need

  • Wine bottles, mason jars or whatever glass thing you are decorating
  • Modge Podge Paste
  • Glitter in whatever color you want
  • Modge Podge Acrylic Sealer
  • Sponge brushes
  • Newspaper
  • Paper plates
I suggest doing this outside because the smell can get really pungent.  First, you will need to place the newspaper over the surface that you are working on just in case the paper plate doesn't catch everything.  Next, take whatever you are decorating and brush the Modge Podge paste in a light layer on the outside of whatever you are working on, if you are doing something big(like the wine bottles I did), it is easier to do this in sections like I did.  


Once you get the entire bottle(or whatever you're using), or the section that you are doing, pour the glitter until the entire area is covered, if you have to do this in multiple layers, then that is fine! Repeat this until the entire glass object is covered in glitter.  


Let it dry for about an hour or so and then take the sealer and spray it over the entire surface of your glass object.  Wait 20 minutes, then do another layer, and repeat one more time.  You don't want that glitter getting all over the place!

Let it dry for 12-24 hours and then you are done!  You've got some nice glitter items!  You can do so much with this, I attempted an ombre effect(didn't really turn out but it looks cool!), you can mix paint and glitter and do cut out kind of things with tape paper or laminate, multiple colors...pretty much if you can think of it than it can probably be done. 


I hope you enjoyed this non-makeup tutorial.  I decided to throw this in since I am going to be using the mason jars as makeup brush holders(once I find some ribbon I like to dress it up a bit) and one of the wine bottles as decoration on my vanity. Decorated wine bottles are great for nice looking decorations.  You can add in flowers, or just keep them bare.  The options are just endless. 

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