How to make glass vase decor with your own hands?

It is difficult to imagine the interior of a house or apartment without figurines, pictures, vases and other little things that make the room more beautiful and cozy. Also, every woman can add a twist, make the decor interesting and unique. Hand made is at the peak of its popularity today. There are a lot of educational videos, photos, master classes, with the help of which you can easily make ordinary things the most unusual, using simple improvised means. So, we will tell you how you can decorate a vase with your own hands, what you need for this, and what result you can get.

Choosing a vase to match your interior style

Today you can buy a variety of vases - large, small, medium, round, square, asymmetrical, etc. But how to make the right choice? It should be noted that difficulties in choosing may arise when it comes to large or floor vases, since they cannot fit beautifully and harmoniously into every interior. As for small round vases, they will suit any interior. By decorating such small vases, or filling them (with decorative stones, ribbons, twigs, flowers, etc.), you can complement the interior of the room. Such vases are placed on tables, shelves, windowsills, cabinets - anywhere.

When choosing a large vase for a room (office), remember that this item is not so much functional as decorative and interior. Also, do not forget that any interior item, including a vase, can help hide any flaws (if any), present the interior in the most favorable light. If the room is decorated, for example, in a strict classical style, then the vase should match the interior - a strict shape, no bright paintings or flowers. Today, the Loft style of room decoration is very fashionable.

Features of decoration

You can make a glass vase decor from a variety of materials, from artificial flowers to pasta. Each type of decoration has its own characteristics, technique, and degree of complexity. It is interesting that hand made does not exclude a creative approach, a combination of the most incompatible things. So, you can follow the instructions exactly, or you can add something of your own.

What do you need to know about preparation?

Preparation for decorating any vase with your own hands includes several stages.

Choice of technique (painting, beads, fabric, etc.).

1. Preparation of all necessary materials (twine, glue, beads, paints, twigs, etc. – depending on the type and technique of decoration).
2. If you are a beginner and have no experience with Hand made, it would be a good idea to prepare a video or photo materials showing the step-by-step execution of the work.
3. Well, that's probably all. All that's left is to turn on your imagination and you can start creating.

DIY Vase Decor

We will tell you in more detail about the most popular and accessible methods of vase decoration.

Decorating a Vase with Stickers

This decorating technique is perfect for beginners, as it does not require any special skills. In the store, you can choose the stickers you like for decorating glass vases, find pictures on the Internet and decorate something similar yourself. You can add rhinestones, beads or threads to the stickers.

Filling the vase

This is also one of the easiest techniques. But accessibility and simplicity are combined with stylish and interesting decor. So, for filling, you can take a round vase. Any material can be taken for filling - lace, twigs, beads, pebbles, starfish, artificial flowers, etc. By filling the vase with pebbles or twigs, and tying it on top with a thick thread or lace, you will make an excellent and very unusual vase.

Coloring

This is a more complex type of decoration. For painting, you will need durable acrylic paint for glass. If you decide to paint the product in one color (without patterns, color transitions, etc.), you need to do the work from the inside. Take an ordinary glass vase without patterns (round, square, small, large - the shape and size do not matter) and paint its walls from the inside. You will also need a brush, a clean rag or towel, water, newspaper (film, paper), and a solvent for painting.

Otherwise, it may affect the quality of painting. Also, before the process, it is necessary to degrease the walls of the vessel with a solvent. After waiting for the solvent to dry completely, it is necessary to pour the paint onto the bottom of the vase and shake it in a circular motion. Thus, the paint itself will paint the walls of the vessel. Then, without waiting for the paint to dry, you need to paint the "gaps" with a brush.

Decor from clothes

A vase can be dressed, no matter how funny and ridiculous it may sound. For "dressing" take an old sweater, jeans, T-shirts, etc. An old knitted or woolen sweater looks very stylish and original. You can complement such decor with a twig or thick thread (string).

Decorating with paper

The vase can be wrapped in beautiful paper, making a neat (or, conversely, careless) bow or knot in the middle or at the neck of the vessel.

Pique technique

This is the name of the technique of manual dot painting. Moreover, it can be bright flowers with detailed rendering of texture and shades. It can also be stylish geometry - straight lines or zigzags, for example. The second option is simpler, so it is perfect for beginners. You will need masking tape, acrylic paint, or spray paint. By sticking the masking tape in such a way that the uncovered areas draw the lines that you want to paint, you protect the rest of the surface from accidental paint spills. For such painting, as a rule, black, white, silver or gold paint is taken.

Dot painting, when multi-colored patterns with small dots appear on the vase, is much more difficult. For work you will need acrylic paint, cotton swabs, toothpicks, newspaper, solvent. The vase needs to be washed, dried, degreased and dried again. Then you can start working. Dots are applied with acrylic paint from thin tubes. Cotton swabs or toothpicks are used to correct the pattern. The location and distance between the dots depends on the pattern that should be obtained in the end. As a rule, each line is staggered.

Stained glass painting

Geometric shapes have always been in fashion. You don't have to be a brilliant draftsman to beautifully paint a vase with stained glass figures. But to make the composition neat and precise, you need to follow the following step-by-step instructions:

1. First, it is necessary to degrease the surface to be treated.
2. After it has completely dried, the vase must be covered with tape.
3. Next, place the vase on oilcloth or newspaper and paint the areas not covered with tape.
4. And finally, you need to put the vase in the oven and heat it at 150 degrees Celsius for 15 minutes.

Decorating a Vase with Fabric, Ribbons and Beads

This type of decor requires the presence of these materials. How to decorate with beads, fabric and ribbons is up to you. You will also need threads, scissors and glue for the work.

Decoupage

Decoupage is a technique of decorating with paper. A sheet of paper is cut into small pieces (squares, triangles) and glued to a vase. For example, you can tear a sheet of paper from a music notebook, cut it, and glue it to a vase. It will turn out that the notes are arranged in a completely chaotic order.

Decorating a vase with natural materials

Natural materials include twigs, tree bark, cinnamon sticks, cloves, dried berries or flower petals, etc. Such materials can be used both to fill a vase and to glue them onto a vessel. As a rule, a small vase is taken, a glass will also work well. You can glue tree twigs or cinnamon sticks onto the walls, and make a bow or knot on top with a not too thick ribbon.

Decorating a Vase with Twine or Thread

Twine is an ideal material for decorating vases, bottles and other small decorative elements. It can also be combined with other materials: buttons, fabric, rhinestones, artificial flowers. In order to fix the twine or thread on the surface of the vessel, PVA glue is usually used. But some craftsmen also use "Moment Glue" or hot glue.

Vase decor made of lace and ribbons

An equally popular and original way to decorate a vase is to use lace and fabric. You don't need any special skills to work with such materials. Most people simply search for ideas on the Internet and bring them to life. To do this, they use ready-made lace and fabrics of different colors and shades bought in a store.

Decorating a Vase with Pasta

As practice shows, pasta is not only a tasty product, but also a rather original way to decorate a vase or any other interior item. You will need regular store-bought pasta, hot glue and spray paint.

To do this, we recommend going online and looking at possible decor options from experienced craftsmen. Next, attach the pasta with glue in the same order as in the picture and wait until it dries completely. And the third stage is painting.

Stylish vases from plastic bottles

90% of citizens of our country after using plastic bottles simply throw them in the trash, believing that they can no longer bring any benefit. But this is not entirely true. Creative people often use bottles as materials for creating their masterpieces. This also applies to vases.

Craftsmen often use the same decoration techniques as for ordinary glass vases: natural materials, fabric, beads, rhinestones, lace, and so on.

But there are also more complex techniques, when the master performs more complex manipulations to bring his ideas to life:

• heats the bottle to change its shape;
• cuts it and glues together parts from different bottles and other things.

It is enough to have a little patience and desire to create. A vase decorated by you personally will become the most original element of decor.

VIDEO: DIY glass vase decor.

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