Glitzy Blue Vase

Since I have my usual Inspiration Cafe post on Mondays, I figured I'd better post my first Z Gallerie Knock-Off/Craft-Off/Hack-Off post today, which I know is one day early, but hey....I have more.
My new favorite color is this wonderful beachy blue, I figured I'd change the color of my project from black and white to beachy blue and white.  (No one said it had to be exact, right?!)

Here is the one from Z Gallerie that I liked.  It's a little fuzzy, but I had to blow it up a little.  Wish I could have actually seen this, I'm sure it's bigger than mine, and probably sparklier.  (Spellcheck is telling me sparklier isn't a word, but I say it is.)

What do you think? 

I can promise you this....mine was cheaper....I mean less expensive.  I already had a white vase and the embellishments, so I think I came in at about $10.00 total for the spray paint and the leaves.

Here's the low-down...

Had a white vase that I taped off and spray painted blue.  I am here to tell you that taping off vertical lines on a round object is a trick that I have not quite mastered.

Then, I spray painted some fern leaves white that were half-price at Hobby Lobby.

With temps upwards of 100 degrees here for the last month, I'll also tell you, spray painting anything and getting it to dry was a challenge.  I found that spray painting in the dark, when the humidity was down a little worked best for drying, but not so much for accuracy!

I gathered a few things from my craft room like some silver Ric-rac, some sparkly gems and some Tacky Glue (ignore the silver ribbon there....it was too big for my purpose).

I adhered those sparkly gems with the Tacky Glue and let it dry.  Apparently you have to let it dry if you don't want the gems to slide off of that curved surface...ask me how I know this.
I wanted something to go around the neck of the vase so you wouldn't see what a difficult time I had making those stripes line up correctly.  I initially thought I would use that silver ribbon, but it was just too big and since it was wired, I didn't want to waste it by cutting it down....you know, with Christmas just around the corner, you can't be wastin silver ribbon.  I had to move to Plan B.

 I crumpled up some tissue paper that actually matched the blue spray paint....oh happy day!....and then smoothed it back out a little,

 folded it into a band and wrapped it around my vase neck, secured it with glue and fastened some silver Ric-rac around it.

Finally, I took some clay, rolled it into a ball, stuck it in the bottle neck and poked the fern leaves in it.

Done and done!  

 And there ya go.....and it's that wonderful light blue aqua-ish color that I am beginning to love.  

If you think you can hack-off Z Gallerie, go HERE and read about it.  Sunny will lay it down for ya! 
There's also a link party for all of the knock-offs starting tomorrow hosted by Life in Rehab and three bed semi.  Don't miss it!

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