SK's $.50 French Lamp

by SK on Elderberry

3 Materials

2 Hours

Medium

SK saves an old lamp, bringing it to life with a French twist

Auctions are a blast...

A .50 cent lamp.

A fat quarter of fabric (left-over).

3M Spray Adhesive. I spray the surface, not the fabric. Once the fabric is in place, it is very difficult to re-position. Start at one side and gently pull the fabric over the glued surface, making sure there are no creases or bubbles.

The left-over beaded braid was originally purple. Using chalk paint, I dyed the braid black. (Who knew you could do that?) After it had dried, I sprayed a gloss top coat so the beads would still look, well, like beads.

I hot glued the braid to the underside of the shade. Making sure that only the beads would show.

With scraps of my fabric, and a bit of black chiffon, I twisted it together to form a rose.

The center is a pretty, sparkly black button I hot glued into place.

Using a watered-down bit of brown paint, I antiqued the fabric to a perfect aged patina.

Of course The Graphics Fairy is my top choice for all my specialty artwork.

Thank you Graphics Fairy. You are the best...

I printed out each of the butterflies, then flipped the image and printed them again.

Using 3M spray glue, a piece of curled wire was put on the back of each butterfly. I then glued like butterflies together back-to-back. This made a small wire for their antenna and a wire to glue under the fabric rose. I bent the wings to a natural pose.