Trash to Treasure...Tutorial

Yesterday my post went upward on Vintage Indie for a DIY makeover projection that I recently finished. Cheers again to Gabreial for inviting me. Y'all can cheque information technology out correct here. But I wanted to repost it hither on papernstitch too…Then here it is:

When I started thinking virtually what I could do for this post, I walked around the business firm a couple of times to gather up some goodies, and all I seemed to notice was some house paint and an one-time, wooden toothbrush holder. I really didn't like the way the container looked, and so I thought I would give information technology a lilliputian makeover.

I decided to turn information technology in to a mod vase, since I actually didn't need a fancy toothbrush holder (seriously what was I thinking when I bought that thing). You can make one yourself too, with but a few supplies: wooden container, firm pigment, sandpaper, pigment brush, and minor drinking glass. So how exercise you make it?

Step i: Give the wooden container a good rub down with some sandpaper then wipe clean. In one case that is finished, you are ready to showtime painting. I painted the entire slice (inside and out) white.

Step 2: Once the first coat is dry, apply ane more glaze to the entire surface. If your paint job is looking a footling clumpy, hit it with a little more sandpaper and and so movement on to another glaze of paint.

Step iii:Once that is finished, you are now prepare to select a contrasting color for the item areas. If your wooden container doesn't accept any engraved details, you tin paint a leaf or flower motif on it to achieve the same await. I would do a couple coats of this.

Step 4: We're almost done,but since we are creating a vase and forest is porous, it doesn't exactly brand a nifty vase by itself. So, information technology is at present time to find a small glass that y'all can stick inside the opening. I happen to have avintage juice glass that fits perfectly! Slip information technology in the opening, fill up with water, and you are fix for some flowers.

That's it for this DIY. I have some more in the wings for next week that I am looking forrard to getting posted. Until then, you lot tin cheque out past tutorials from papernstitch correct here.