Painting Glass Items - Perfect for Garage Sale Finds
Here’s a link roundup for stenciling or freehand painting various types of glass items.
Glass pieces like bottles, vases, mason jars, jam jars, votives, whatever type of glass that catches your eye.
Great for mismatched pieces, and yet so functional in plenty of different ways:
- Store pantry staples (rice, beans, spices, coffee, etc.)
- Designer bottles for cooking oils & vinegars
- Cookie jars
- Desktop organizers
- Gift jar goodies (for bath salts, homemade sugar scrubs, foot soak pampers, lavender vinegar, rose petal vinegar, bubble bath, bath beads, etc.)
- Complete baking mixes/Gifts in a jar
- Bathroom accessories
- Craft room containers
- Whatever else you can think of, the sky’s the limit
This is a PERFECT garage sale project since many of these various glass pieces can be picked up for a quarter a piece, or better yet–free (many times I see boxes of canning and jam jars for free at yard sales).
Here are some tutorials for painting and stenciling glass jars and bottles to get you started, take a peek and you’ll see how cool these can be:
Weekend project: Stencilled glass bottles
Easy Glass Painting
Glass Painting
Decorative Mason Jars
Wheat Sheaf Painted Jar
Embellished Glass Bottle
Ideas & Inspiration
Painted Glass
Painted Apothecary Jars *Mini Tutorial as well
If you’re brave and would like to try freehand painting, lots of free online how-to videos here from: Donna Dewberry on YouTube
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23 Mar 2008 at 4:02 am
I like to buy glass jars and bottles at garage sales for filling with nice things and giving as gifts at Christmas and birthdays. Gifts in a jar and bath recipes work great for this.