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An easy ombre globe.

May 17, 2013 4 Comments

I love this little globe I picked up at a yard sale a few years ago.  I have transformed it a couple of times over.  It’s had two Halloween make-overs and been repainted for Valentine’s Day.  I have another project coming up, but in the meantime, I got a wild hair and decided to do a quick ombre treatment.

It’s pretty fun, right?  I like that it’s kind of beachy and that I can just paint over it and make it something else.

I started out by painting over the heart and text from the Valentine’s Day globe. I just used a basic spray primer and grabbed 4 graduated shades of blue acrylic paint.  Fortunately, globes come with latitude lines.  These make great guidelines for painting the stripes of color.  I started in the middle (um, at the equator)  and then worked my way out from there, blending the colors as I went along.  Not. Rocket. Science.

Easy, fun and best of all, can be painted over the very second I get bored with it.

Scary Places Globe                                              Ribbon Globe                                             Valentine’s Day Globe

Do you have a globe…?  Whatcha gonna do with it?

about Vivienne Wagner

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Comments

  1. Carolina Moore says

    May 17, 2013 at 10:18 PM

    I love all these globes! I seriously need to go out and find a globe to craft with!

    Reply
  2. Shanna Gilbert says

    May 18, 2013 at 8:40 AM

    I love this! It turned out so cute!

    Reply
  3. malia says

    May 20, 2013 at 9:40 PM

    What an innovative idea! I love the colors!

    Reply

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