For Easter, my grandma bought me an old mirror. I had mentioned a new obsession with mirrors and upon one of her MANY thrift store runs, she found me a beautiful organic mirror. At first I wasn't positive how I wanted to paint it but quickly decided upon elegant black.
See below on how I accomplished this beautiful mirror!
Take small pieces of tape & "roll" them so that both sides are sticky. This makes it easier to stick to both the mirror and the plastic bag and to peel off when you're finished.
Place the tape up against the edge of the mirror.
Take plastic bags and place them around the end of the mirror so that they stick to the rolled tape. This ensures that the spray paint doesn't get onto the mirror.
This is what the mirror looked like with the glass being completely covered with the plastic bags.
I chose to paint outside and to make sure that the blades of grass don't get in the way of the paint, I placed the mirror on top of two paint cans.
The mirror after being spray painted.
Hanging on the wall after sanding to get the distressed affect!
Up close of the black, gold, and red distressed colors.
As what happens with most of my project, I come across some bumps in the road that ultimately end up changing the idea I had for the project. I purchased black spray paint and began spraying when the paint began to bubble. After doing some research, I should have used an oil-based primer before painting. So, I decided I would sand in the places where the paint had bubbled, prime, and re-paint. However, once I began to sand, I could see that under the gold paint, there was red paint. With the three colors (black, gold, and red) the mirror looked beautiful distressed. I decided that it wasn't necessary to prime and repaint with the beautiful colors coming through. So I left it as you can see!
<3, Heather
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