Friday 11 November 2011

Altering glass vases

As soon as I saw the Creative Craftworld creation by Nora for the UKS bloghop I knew I had to try it out. We don't drink a lot of pop or anything that comes in glass bottles so I decided what better than to use the technique on some vases and make them as christmas presents instead.

I started with a plain clear vase;

I added some elastic bands in a criss cross pattern as random as I could get them lol


I then applied alcohol inks (I used Pebble, Sailboat blue, and Butterscotch) and blending solution and coloured all 4 sides of the vase top to bottom

Once dry I removed the elastic bands which leaves intersecting stripes of clear glass. The cylindrical vase I did in a similar way except I left a clear section at the top and didn't use the blending solution. The colours on the cylindrical vase were Clover, Citrus and Pool.
I am going to add some decoration to them and hopefully get some better photo's when it is daylight. Thanks for popping by x

6 comments:

  1. This is absolutely stunning and a fantastic take on Noras original project. I love the colours you chose!

    Mel x (CCW)

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  2. I love these colours too... and I love the effect you got without using te blending solution - amazingly pretty!

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  3. Michelle they are gorgeous :) glad you enjoyed the blog hop and love your take on it with the vases :)

    It proves you've had fun when you have inky fingers :) xxx

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  4. Ooh!! I love how you used those elastic bands to give that criss cross design! Must find some glass vases now! LOL thanks for sharing!

    xxx

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  5. These look great Michelle. Looks like the blog hop gave you plenty of inspiration :o)
    Fiona x

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