Hostess Gifts - Inexpensive Gift #9

We are back to glass painting and making wonderful Hostess gifts to give when you are invited to a party or family gathering. I got these glass vases at a garage sale for free. They threw them in with the other stuff I bought. Can’t beat the price. You can always buy these at a discount store for a dollar each.
I’m painting two vases and will show you how to decorate another one without having to be artistic at all. You will need to use acrylic enamel paint for all glass painting projects.



The first vase will be covered with old fashioned Christmas lights. I have made a stencil out of thin cardboard paper. When you use the stencil you’ll need to brush from the outside toward the center. Otherwise the paint will get under the stencil and make a big mess. I will warn you that the light shape will not be perfect and you will have to finish painting the shape by hand. The stencil is to help make sure the lights are approximately the same size. If you don’t think you’ll need that kind of extra help than it will be easier without it.
I’m going to use red, yellow, blue, orange and green for the lights and my black acrylic pen to make the cord and the bottom threaded socket. White paint is to be used for the reflection in the bulbs and the base color for the threaded socket.



The next one will be a representation of birds in a tree. You won’t have to do much artistic work on this one. A couple of red dots for the birds, some brush strokes for the leaves, and another dot of color for the pine cones. I put white paper in the vase so you could see the designs better.



After the design is dry take your black paint pen and outline the birds and give them eyes, beaks and legs. Lastly add some drops of white paint to represent falling snow.
Now it’s time to bake them. If you need the directions on baking glass please go to my blog called “Inexpensive Gift #1” at the following link.
http://www.growitfirst.blogspot.com/2013/08/grow-it-first-with-ck-worley.html



The last vase gift is really two vases in one. You find a smaller vase that will fit into a larger vase leaving enough room all around to fill with the candy of your choice. I wanted to fill this with Christmas M&M’s but they aren’t out yet. You put your water and flowers in the small vase then put it into the larger vase and fill the space in between. It doesn’t have to be candy. It can be marbles or deco beads or shells. Be creative.



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