I have been a Floral Designer for about 10 years now and a lover of fresh cut flowers since I was a little girl.  Even though I have some allergies I love them too much to give them up.  Needless to say, I have quite a store of clear glass vases hanging around my house.  Sometimes, I don’t want a clear vase, sometimes I want to add more color to my design.  And just sometimes, I’m tired of the vase looking the way it does and I want to change it up… so I came up with these 2 techniques for recycling glass flower vases.

Luckily both techniques are easy and inexpensive so you can recycle several glass flower vases if you want to.

Here’s how…

Make sure the vase is clean and dry.   Then all you will need for this project is a hot glue gun, glue sticks and Design Master spray paint.

Using the hot glue gun “draw” a design on the vase with glue.  I find that the cooler temp glue sticks work better for this.  The hot ones just get too hot and runny to make a good design.

Once the glue is set and cool spray the vase with Design Master spray paint in whatever color you choose.

The second look uses masking tape, gold spray paint and Rub’nBuff.

Cover the vase with small, torn pieces of masking tape, over lap the tape pieces many times over.  You don’t want any of the glass to show and the more torn edges you have the better it looks.  Burnish the edges to make sure it’s all lying down nice and flat.  Spray with spray paint.  I used Darice Antique Gold but you could use any color you like.  Lightly go over with Rub’nBuff so that the darker color sticks in the creases and lines.

There you have it. Two ways to recycle or change the look of just about any clear class vase.

Edit June 2010

Hey guess what?!?! I was a featured blogger on Cool2Craft!!

They are featuring recycled or upcycled crafts this week and chose my upcycled vase. So here it is for your recycled craft pleasure! If you get a change go check out Cool2Craft. It’s a great blog!