DIY Beaded Sunburst Mirror

 

Do you love Sunburst Mirrors as much as I do?

I repurposed a ceiling medallion and made my own:

DIY Beaded Sunburst Mirror!



 

 

 

I am totally in love with it! 

Here's the tutorial....

Supplies:

 

 

 

 

1 x 12 inch wooden ring - Michaels
1 x 5 inch round mirror - Michaels
2 x Crystal beaded bracelet, smokey grey color - Michaels
1 pack of 14mm Aqua Shell Beads - Michaels
1 x 10 inch Westinghouse ceiling medallion - Home Depot
2 sheets of Scrapbook Paper:  'My Minds Eye, 29th Street Market', each sheet features two coordinating patterns (this is the same paper I used to make my DIY Coasters) - Michaels
Hot glue gun
Scissors
1 Sheet white computer paper
Pencil
1 Command Hook or a nail to hang the mirror

Tutorial:

With the white computer paper make two templates for your sunburst rays.  Make one large and one small.  I just eyeballed the width and shape I wanted.  The large one is 4 inches long and the small one is 3 inches long.

 

Cut out each template.

Using the templates, trace onto the scrapbook paper several large and small rays.  Just trace around the outside edge of each template.  Use both the back and front of the scrapbook paper to alternate the colors.  Cut out each sunburst ray. ( I made 20 large rays and 20 small rays).  Fold each paper ray lengthwise to give each ray some dimension so they do not lay flat.  You can see what I mean in the pic below and in the first pic in this post.   Lay each one around the ceiling medallion, in the manner you like, alternating small ones with the large ones, so you get an idea of how many to make.   

 

 

With hot glue, attach each paper ray to the wooden ring so the bottom of the ray is close to the inner edge of the wooden ring.  Sorry I don't have a picture of this....my camera battery died and I had to recharge it then kept working on the project!  I attached the rays so that all the small paper rays were laying on top and all the large rays were laying underneath the small sized rays, like this.

Attach the ceiling medallion with hot glue so that it is centered onto your ring of paper rays.

Attach mirror with hot glue onto the ceiling medallion so that it is centered too.

Cut the end of the elastic cord that is holding the crystal beads onto the bracelets.  Remove all the crystals from the bracelet.  Restring the crystals by reusing the elastic cord that is used in the bracelet. See below.  Add as many crystals as is required to go around the outer edge of your mirror.  I used 73 crystals.  Tie the elastic cord in a tight knot and cut the ends.  Gently pull one bead over the knot so that it is hidden.
Attach string of  crystal beads, using hot glue, around outside of mirror.  You do not need to glue down every bead...I glued the strand down in about 7 places.

 

Cut the strands of aqua shell beads to separate the beads, as above.  Attach individual beads with hot glue around outer edge of crystals.  I used 34 shell beads.  I had to overlap slightly the last 2 beads to make them fit, but don't think it really shows too much.

Attach a command strip to the back of the wooden ring and hang the mirror (or use a nail and hang the mirror with one of the holes in the wooden ring- to hang off the nail)

That's it you are done!  This was so fun to make!!!

 

I love how it sparkles and the beautiful blue color of the paper.

(This would be a great Mother's Day gift too!)

 

 

Enjoy your one-of-a-kind DIY sunburst mirror!!

 

 

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Written by Heather at Setting for Four

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