You wouldn’t believe how many reincarnations this mirror has had to go through to get to this completed stage, in fact this is the second version, the first one ended up in the bin!
The mirror is from Ikea – “Malma” and measures 10ins x 10ins 
Like the very first mirror I altered I used a mixture of Promarkers and Sharpie pens to do the flower doodling, drawing the basic shapes first and then using a black Sharpie for the outlining, finer details and to fill in the gaps.
To be honest, at this stage, after a couple of coats of quick drying, gloss varnish the mirror looks pretty OK, but me, being me, just had to fiddlefart some more …. which is where I went wrong with my first mirror, hence the bin!
I really like the effect of adding a white outline, but getting the right pen that stayed put while being varnished was a problem, the first couple of pens I tried dissolved immediately ….. however I found that a white “Pilot Super Colour Permanent Type Ink” held fast …. wooo hooo, but although it is labelled as “extra fine”, I would have really preferred it to be even finer …… but that’s me being very picky!
The final stage was to mix a generous sprinkling of iridescent micro fine glitter to the varnish, which gave the mirror a delicately sparkly fairy type look, which was exactly the effect I wanted, but unfortunately the pictures really don’t pick this up or do justice to it. The white outlines are also much subtler from a distance, giving the mirror a softer effect not looking half as harsh as they do in these pictures. As you can see compared to the first jewelled mirror I did (behind) the detail is much finer, I have also resisted adding any gems at this stage …. for now I am going to leave it as it is and then perhaps revisit it in a couple of months time ……
4 comments:
Love it x
Gorgeous ....I have two of these somewhere ...this maybe my inspiration ...thanks for sharingxx
Helen, I wish you would slow down a little with your fabulous projects. I can't keep up with you as I want to try everything or at least my version of everything as I can't doodle as well as you.
Only joking, keep them coming fast and furious, it's one of the highlights of my day, logging in to see what you have been up to. Today's mirror is really lovely and I can see an Ikea visit happening soon to buy mirrors and shadow boxes.
What lovely gift ideas.
Toni xx
love it as it fits in so well with every thing your doing home dec wise if peps cant draw then decopage flowers ect from mags and out line or trace pics frome colouring books down loades ect use old fash copy paper tracing paper it will give you a look the best thing you can do is play or addapet Helens down loads print on tissue paper and do it that way big love marc
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