Do you love mercury glass?
I just LOVE the way it looks.
I’ve seen different forms of creating your own mercury glass, so I figured I’d combined a few different forms to try and create some of my own.
Here’s what you need…
glass pieces (I shopped my house)
spray bottle with water
spray paint… I used Valspar’s Aluminum (because I had it on hand)
gloves (if you don’t want silver nails)
Here’s 1 of the pieces of glass I collected from around my house…
{Step 1}
I used a grocery bag and painters tape to protect the outside of each glass piece.
{Step 2}
Use your spray bottle and spray the inside of your glass piece. I squirted the inside about 5 times… just evenly misting the inside.
{Step 3}
Spray the inside of the pieces with your metallic spray paint. This is where gloves are helpful… the spray will have only up to escape in a vase. (see my hand below) It will not coat evenly, but will blotch because of the water… that’s what you want.
{Step 4}
Once dry you can remove the outer protection.
Here’s my faux mercury glass…
an Ikea votive holder aglow…
I think I might like it even more with a brighter silver paint… but I just used what I had.
I think it’s a pretty cool look!
I’m sharing my faux mercury glass at the AMAZING parties in my PARTIES Menu Bar!
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So what have you been painting?
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This is a PAINT party… so pretty please, link-up only paint related projects. I HATE deleting!
Please put my nifty POPP button (you can find this in my menu bar “Button” link) in your blog post or a link back to this party… that way others from your blog can check out all the paint projects too.
In the URL line, insert your blog post url… not your general blog address.
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thanks for hosting! love your mercury glass fingers!
Oooh, I like! I've accidentally spray painted something that still had water drops on it and I always thought it looked link of cool. Thanks for hosting!
~ The Speckled Dog
It looks so pretty. I'm going to have to try this (with gloves on). Thansk for hasting again.
This is wonderful! thank you so much for posting it. I have been wanting to do this to a few things and now, I have the motivation to get going on it!
That is so cool!! I'm definitely going to try that!
love the look! even on your fingers.
thanks for hosting! Love POPP
gail
I will have to check in the morning to see if I have silver paint out in the garage! This looks so cool.
Oh, I want to try this! Thanks for sharing!
The glass would look amazing with chrome spray paint…I've seen other peoples attempts and I think this is the one I've been looking for! Thanks
Oh, I love mercury glass! I'm definitely going to try this. Thanks for sharing and thanks for hosting!
I love this! Thanks for the easy tutorial! I'll have to give this a try. Thanks for the option to link up! Much appreciated
It looks fantastic, thanks for hosting:))
Hugs, Biljana
Love your parties! And that mercury idea very cool!
I love your DIY mercury glass! I'm gonna try this soon!
This is fantastic! I have seen several different tutorials on mercury glass but yours looks more like the real thing. Thanks for sharing!
I found you through Meet Virginia and I'm sooooo glad! I'm just getting into painting furniture and I want all the inspiration I can get. It's hard to do searches in the blog world and the blog world holds some of the best stuff. Looks like you're gathering it all up here just for me. Thanks for hosting! I'll be back for sure.
LOVE the mercury glass look…very inspiring!
Hi Maryann– Very vintage and lovely looking. It would be so great if you'd consider linking it up to my first linky party "a crafty soiree" at http://www.yesterdayontuesday.com
xoxo malia
Oooh, I like how the 3rd piece turned out! Thanks for hosting!
I riffed on your jar – I wanted to let you know. I did link back to you. Thanks a million for the idea.
http://thosenorthernskies.blogspot.com/2010/09/gold-mercury-glass-jar.html
Melissa
I love this project! I am going to feature it on Dollar Store Crafts sometime in the coming week!
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