Happy Valentine’s Day! I’m going to sneak in one last heart project. This is a subtle variation on the back-painted mirrored year project I showed you last month, so I won’t belabor the steps again. (Go check out that post or my other back-painted glass projects if you want to see more.) I ran across […]
Back-painted mirrored year painting
Over the past couple of years, I’ve made many pieces of back-painted glass. The truth is, I never get tired of them. They almost always yield great results and leave people asking, “wait, you made this?” (especially when there’s mirror paint involved). My husband and I and his two siblings and their spouses all live […]
Back-painted Polaroid mirror art
I had this giant 25″ x 35″ frame that was given to me by a friend (Thanks, Diane!) and was trying to figure out what to do with it. At the same time, I also wanted to make something with the remainder of a can of Looking Glass paint I had, so I paired the […]
Making faux mercury glass with “looking glass” mirror paint
I have found my new favorite paint! Krylon Looking Glass spray paint. This stuff is like magic. You can actually create a mirror-like finish! I had no idea mirror paint even existed until I saw this idea in this Budget Living book (which, by the way, is a great little deco book, even if it is […]