DIY Artisan Vase

This is such a fun project that you can do pretty quickly. You can get that artisan pottery look, like I love at Pottery Barn, with a budget price tag! It’s a great addition to your home decor and for now, it’s found a place on my mantel.

Clean And Prepare The Thrift Store Vase

Here is the glass vase that I started with.

It looks like it was used in a floral delivery with the floral tape around the top. This vase was definitely dirty! I rinsed it with water first, then just used a paper towel soaked in white vinegar to clean it. You could also use rubbing alcohol to help clean and to remove any sticker or sticky residue that might still be stuck on the glass. Let the glass dry completely before moving to the next step.

Gather The Materials

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• glass vase
• baking soda
• chip paintbrush
• acrylic paint in the colors you want
• paper plate

I wanted my vase to have an ombre look in the gray tones, so I used two shades of gray paint, a dark gray and a light gray.

How to Make a DIY Textured Vase

With my clean vase all dry, I started mixing my acrylic paint and baking soda. I went with a 50/50 mixture, equal parts paint, and baking soda. It will have a grit texture.

Dap the chip paintbrush into the paint mixture and then using a pouncing technique apply it onto the glass vase. I wanted the base of the vase darker.

So I used this darker paint color covering about the bottom third of the vase. Make sure to push the paintbrush into all the ridges and crevices.

Then I took the lighter acrylic paint and some more baking soda, using the 50/50 method to create a lighter shade of the mixture. It doesn’t take much paint to do this project, so leftover paint works great. This lighter shade was a leftover sample paint I had on hand.

Then I took about half of the light shade mixture and combined it with the dark shade I had used first to create a third shade for the middle section. I used the medium shade in the center section of the vase.

I wasn’t going for straight lines when combining the shades, I wanted them to blur together. Then repeat steps for the lightest paint color and put it on the top section of the vase.

This vase definitely doesn’t have a smooth finish any longer. The rough edges are what give it such a unique beauty.

Let it dry completely before filling with fresh blooms or stems.

What do you put in a decorative vase?

I placed some faux olive branches I found on Amazon in my vase. I am loving them!

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