Are you looking for a fun and pretty decor project for your home? These beautiful Dollar Store DIY ombre vases are easy to make and budget friendly!
Happy April! Is it just me or does this spring seem to be flying by before our eyes? Maybe it is just this getting older thing that makes time seem to speed up. In any case, I hope you all had a wonderful Easter!
I am excited to share my little Easter Brunch birthday party, but since I’ve still got a few photos left to edit, today I thought I’d share this quick & easy ombre vase project that I used as my table centerpiece. Any project that costs less than $7 in supplies (for all 3 vases), takes less than 30 minutes to complete gets high marks in my book. Frankly, I am in LOVE with how these turned out!
Most of the supplies you probably already have on hand, but for the paint I highly recommend the Martha Stewart brand high-gloss acrylic paint. Unlike regular acrylic paint, this brand works on all surfaces, including glass. It is found by the other acrylic paints and runs about $2 a bottle.
Step One: Blend your paints in variegated shades of green from light to dark as shown.
Step Two: Start by painting the top rim and top 1″ of the vase with white paint. Try to keep the line as straight as possible.
Step Three: While paint is still wet, dip brush into second shade and create a new stripe, slightly overlapping with the first stripe.
Step Four: Continue making darker and darker stripes all the way to the bottom of the vase. If you are doing more than one vase at a time, be sure to do each color stripe at the same time. Let dry completely.
See, I told you they were easy! And fast! And cheap! And CUTE! It’s DIY perfection right there. 🙂
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do you know if tempera paint would work as well?
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I love this idea. I'm gonna gift it to my friend.
I have some white vases left over from my wedding business. What a great idea to transform them and customize them to my own color scheme. Thanks for sharing this.
This is a cute idea. I was planning on giving a friend a keepsake floral bouquet as a gift along with a poem that I wrote for her. The flowers are going to be assorted colors. I was thinking of painting the vase with pastel shades of the rainbow. I think I will try it and see if it will work together!
do you know if tempera paint would work as well?