Decorative Bedroom Accessories

Steps:

1. Using a craft knife, cut top lip off vase, making an irregular edge.

2. Cover vase with torn pieces of coffeehouse paper dipped into the water and glue mixture (70 percent glue, 30 percent water). Let dry overnight.

3. Cut rose petals in random sizes. You will need about nine petals per rose. Also cut out leaves. The shape is not critical, since these will be wrinkled and pushed into shape.

4. Brush entire vase with soft pink paint, both inside and out.

5. Using a couple of different shades of brown, freehand paint meandering vines, letting them grow around the vase.

6. To build the roses, dip the larger petals into glue mixture and place on the side of the vase. Starting from the bottom of the rose, put five petals in circle. Curl, scrunch and shape the edges, pressing some parts flat. Place a second circle of four petals on top of the first circle of petals. Glue in place and press and shape as before.

7. Cut off the "topknot" on a poppy pod and hot glue this in place as the rose center. These should look like large flat cabbage roses.

8. To make rose buds, roll two petals together, dip into glue mixture and press and shape these onto the vase. Put two rose buds on the vines in various places, add two leaves at the bottom of the buds. Let dry overnight.

9. Paint roses pink with highlights of plum, rust, and other colors you like.

10. Drizzle watered-down paint over the vase. Layer your colors and sponge as you drizzle. The key to this project is to add many different layers of paint and keep them watered down, allowing previous colors to bleed through.

11. Add a little copper metallic paint, but sponge most of it away. This will give the vase an Old World look.