The base I've had since my apartment in Boston, and the lampshade is a plain white one from Target.
I basically just bought a few different silver paints on sale at Michaels and tested them on white card stock to see how they would look. I also got a couple of different objects I thought could make cool circles.
A lot, like the mini corks I bought, were too small for this project. I settled on this round sponge brush:
I started out smushing a lot of paint on the sponge brush, and pressing it down evenly. I have things to do with my life so I wasn't going to measure out and mark exactly where the polka dots should go. I like the randomly spaced and placed dots look. If you want to measure and mark, go right ahead and send me a picture.
After the all 4 sides were done, I was all "meh..." I wanted the paint to look thicker? And, somehow, more interesting?
So I loaded on the paint and pressed it down over each dot.
It got this really cool antler or tree branch-y type look to it?
It dried and BAM. Done.
