Let’s Make Expensive Looking Bells for Under $5
Today I am going to show you where I got my supplies and how I easily made these bells looks expensive, for next to nothing!
Don’t these bells just look so perfect, you can add them to your mantle garland, your front door wreath, etc.
now let me show you how I did this.
I found these bells at the dollar tree for only $1 each, so I grabbed 3 of these.
And I got some of this rope, also from dollar tree.
I first untied the faux garland from each of the bells, and then took off the bows.
Then I took them out to my painting board in my garage 😂
Yes I have a board over a garbage can that I spray paint all of my small projects on.
Make sure to space the bells out enough so you can get all around them.
I had this spray paint on hand, it is the gold plate from ace hardware.
I gave each bell a light coat of paint.
I ended up doing 3 coats of paint, however I wish I would have only done 1, because I like the look of the imperfect paint ( I feel like it looks more antique)
Oh well they are still looking great so far.
Once the bells have dried completely, I pushed the rope through the tops.
Make sure that you stagger the lengths of your ropes, you don’t want them all the same length.
tie a knot underneath each bell.
Then I took all 3 bells and toured them together making a loop at the top.
I also had a lovely little hole that I had to cover, soo I took a little bit of left over rope and glued it around the top of each bell.
Easy enough right!?!
Let me know what you think of this project.
And follow along on Instagram for more inspo @briannabrowndesigns
also stay tuned for how I stole my stockings on the mantle.
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Very pretty. Great idea.
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Thank you for your kind words!
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Beautiful, nice job.
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Thank you so much
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So all you did was spray paint them gold?
where do you find the greenery
Lovely. It looks as though you sprayed the inside of the bells too. Did you?