Maggi here to wish you a very happy spring! I love this time of year when flowers start peeking their heads up from the ground and the landscape is dotted with rafts of color. Here in North Carolina we are treated to banks of azaleas backed by dogwoods, towered over by stately pines. Cherry blossoms and ornamental pears are blooming every where, so of course, you need a pretty vase to bring a bit of this loveliness into your home. Today I am sharing a simple vase that I altered to capture that spring beauty.
This is really a quick and simple project that you could even let your kiddos help you with. I started out with a simple and inexpensive vase from Michaels.
I used a dropper to drip white gesso on my vase. I simply dropped white gesso near the top of the vase and let it drip down the sides. I also painted the green twine white that is wrapping the neck of the vase.
After the gesso dried, I tied some Petaloo fibers around the neck and then added my blooms.
I used a Spellbinders Romantic Vines die to cut some greenery to tuck in with my beautiful Petaloo blooms.
To finish it off, I added a little Stickles in crystal around the edges of the flowers and stickled the white gesso drips just a bit. It's too bad that Stickles don't show up very well in a photo, so you'll have to trust me on this one, it added a really pretty sparkle to my project.
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