Saving a Gazing Ball and a May Day Giveaway!

I love what you do with Mod Podge!

I want to try and make these if I win some super cool MP.
Thank you
Amy

I loved this post, and also love the quote from Thomas Edison. Mod Podge can be used so many ways. Just thought I'd let you know I'm saving my tin cans, planning on making me one of your frames. Margaret

I forgot to write how I plan to use this! I plan on using this to make these gazing balls your billiant self came up with!!

WOW, I love your gazing ball. I have a few different size stryofom balls around here.
So if I win, I am gunna try making a ball (purple of course).
Thanks
Keri

I am SO lovin' this gazing ball idea! And outdoor modge podge; sooo exciting!!! I'd love a chance to win!! Please enter me ?

I just finished what I call the worlds ugliest collage using the Podge! Lol.Now I am dying to try the outdoor!!! My daughter and I are just about done with a fairy house, this would be perfect!!

I love Mod Podge! I use it for all sorts of stuff. Of course, I don't have pictures of any of it. I did use it for Mother's Day gifts for the grandma's. Made some cute plaques with kiddo pictures on it. I know they will love it. :)

First time to see something so crafty wit mod podge! I dicovered it the first time about a week ago and searching the internet has got me to this I am amazed at your beautiful work! I have never seen outdoor mod podge before!!I really could out some use to that stuff I am going on a mission to hunt some down here in town in a couple of weeks!! The kids would love to make these! Thanks for the wonderful idea of yours and I will deffinately keep coming back to this site! Thanks again! Shana

I want to try to use modge podge to make great storage boxes.

I've never used Mod Podge but I have used lacquers and also coated items with nail polish. I don'g have a project in mind, all sorts of possiblities though.

Modge Podge is always out on my work table. I NEVER put it away. In fact, there are quite a few pictures of my studio messes and works in progress, and the bottles can always be seen on the background somewhere. Kind of like Where's Waldo. This one is pretty obvious:
http://www.facebook.com/GeminiMoonMosaics?v=photos#!/photo.php?pid=12427646&id=75508525150

Love it!! And I love the retro look of the bottle. Don't ever change that font. :o)

I really want ot make some home decor items with pretty papers and modge podge. And i did not even know there was an outdorr version.

I love your gazing ball and really, really, really liked how you walked us through all the ups and downs of creating it. Glad you didn't stop before succeeding.

While reading it occurred to me that alcohol inks would add vibrant color to the foil.

My most recent Mod Podge project is here:

http://madebynicole.blogspot.com/2010/04/easy-homemade-translucent-paper...

You have to scroll/read past the making paper part until you get to the project.

What did you use for the post? How did you attach it to the gazing ball?

Small Mod Podge gazing balls would look lovely peeking out of my flower beds this summer! There's also a bowling ball up the attic collecting dust...hmmm.

I L-O-V-E the gazing ball--brilliant! I have been wanting to try the outdoor Mod Podge. I have done a few projects with the matte MP. Thanks for sharing this great idea!

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I haven't used Mod Podge in YEARS but seeing new things to do with it, I hope I can get some to play with and find out all I can make with it! Looks like fun!

This is an awesome idea! I have been looking for a great project to tackle this weekend during my "Moommy time" and I think I just found it! Thanks for sharing!

I have never used mod podge before but I keep hearing about it. I would love to try and create glass candle holders like you made.

I will be tinting mod podge with food coloring in future projects. Fabulous idea! And I love that you refer to your "sweetie".

Love the Gazing Balls! I haven't done anything in awhile with Mod Podge. My last project with the Chipboard Letters attached to canvas for the families for Christmas. I did finish mine, but I haven't posted the photo as of yet.

If I win this, then I am going to make me one of these balls. I will probably make one anyway. I have to wait until my next trip to the city to get some outdoor Podge though. Love the idea and now I won't have to worry about broken glass like I would if I bought one of the "real" gazing balls.

I wouldn't have guessed you could use Mod Podge with aluminum foil. Now I can think of all kinds of ways to use it with foil. Thanks for the inspiration. Now I just have to win the Mod Podge and I'll be good to go! :0)

I love mod podge, especially the smell! I've been trying to make a tray with a map of Michigan on it for my son in California (trying to lure him back here) but it always comes out too wrinkly and I have to scrape it off! So, I've used up all my mod podge and sure could use some more! Thanks for the chance to win some.

What a great idea! It came out beautifully! I hope you enjoy it for many years to come. I might have to try this, as several of my gazing balls have broken over the years.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE mod podge!! I recently revamped and old particle board chest of drawers. sorry, no pic. I want to do a bathroom step stool for my daughter and a tea tray for me! We also love covering empty oatmeal containers with fun papers and use them to hold markers, crayons, small toys, etc.

Oh yes, that gazing ball is a success. I might just have to try to make one for my garden. Two of my HS girfriends and I are making a day of it this Thurs for lunch and craft store - guess I'll be looking for that outdoor ModPodge. Now that we're retired, we've gotten back into crafting with a zeal!

I used MP to make cool wall tiles that remind me of my kids' personalities!

http://frugalfrontporch.blogspot.com/2010/04/family-themed-wall-tile-pro...

Dear Pam-I was not even aware that Mod Podge came in an outdoor version! I love this gazing globe that you made-it is spectacular! I love how you tried all of those clever methods and it turned out perfect. Just goes to show-try anything once! I especially love your idea about the food colouring.
Thank you so much! Debi Cassady

How clever! Never would have thought about foil!!!

A good children's project too, they could cut out and mod-podge a ball with layers and layers of magazine art to "infinity and beyond"!!!

Thanks for your generosity.

hi pam what an awesome project!
if i won the giveaway i would like to follow your directions and also make a gazing ball for my future yard! ..we are leaving NJ in a few short months and heading to maryland!
thank you..marie sierra

It's beautiful!! I love how you came back from (what you thought) was a failure and made it into something amazing in the end. I've only used paper mod podge so far to make scrapbook type things, but I have yet to try the outdoor (or any other type of) mod podge! I think I'll definitely be trying out your gazing ball as my first project :)

Wow thats AWESOME!!! Im glad you saved your project, its probably even cooler than your original plan would have been. My mom has always wanted a gazing ball but they were too much money and most dont even look that cool, but now I can make her a customized one. THANKS
-Marie

How cool is that!
I have yet to use Mod Podge and see lots of possibilities with the outdoor type: window boxes, cache-pots, porch rockers and swings, porch roll-up blinds, mailboxes and mailbox posts, and more, more, more.
Please pick me to win, please, please, please.
I would love to try Mod Podge.
Thanks for a cool blog.
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HJ
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Hi just came from Modge Podge blog. I have just made candy bowls with quilt scraps and MP. Have not posted yet but will. Would love to try the outdoor MP. Love you ball and you are an inspiration.
QMM

I've never tried the outdoor mod podge before- thanks for the great idea! I'd love to make some wall hangings to decorate the back fence.

I'm still a Mod Podging newbie. I recently made a decorative birdhouse with Mod Podge, and I think it'd be super awesome to put a real useful one outside for all my lovely little friends out in the yard.

I have made some little collages with Mod Podge but I'd love to try something bigger - I found a table on the street for free and want to decoupage it. Would definitely need more MP for that, and with the outdoor stuff I could put it on the patio! Would love to win, thanks for doing the giveaway!

I like to ball too, good work!

What a great looking gazing ball! I love that it looks just like some of what I've seen out there on sale and you did it yourself! My most recent ModPodge project was making clear glass stone pendants with decorative paper and stamping. They weren't what I was hoping for- I think the stones I used are too small and therefore too light. Looks like I'll be at Michaels sometime this week.

Pam, I always enjoy seeing the creative items you create and share with us.
I would love to win the Mod Podge - it is something I have been dying to learn to use since I saw this post:
http://kitchenexhibitionist.blogspot.com/2006/10/my-plates-runneth-over....
but I have just not gotten around to it yet.
I really want to learn to make plates like the one in the link above from the Kitchen Exhibitionist's blog. :)

I've just recently started using mod podge, and I love it. My husband thinks that I've lost my mind. Anything that I come across, I try to see what I can do to change it.
Just redid a bunch of things for my kitchen:
http://craftymama09.blogspot.com/2010/04/mod-podge.html

What don't I use Modge Podge for? It's my favorite crafting item in the world!!!

I'm going to have a get together in my back yard for some folks I work with and I'd love to make some of those beautiful tinted jars to hang outside in the trees.

This is a beautiful project. You have inspired me to make one and use Outdoor Mod Podge, which I didn't know existed.

Great instructions.

Kudos to you for determination and perseverance. We have all had a project fail or frustrate us but few actually write about it and the process of overcoming obstacles. You've inspired me to make tiny, swingy, gazing ball earrings! Love your blog. Thanks!

What a great idea! I have a wooden adirondack chair that my husbands grandfather made... over 40 years ago... but even paint won't make it pretty again. I'm hoping that some creativity and outdoor mod podge will do the trick. :)

I love this project = ) I want to try using some Modge Podge with some of my Cross Stitch projects - maybe using part Cross Stitch and part fabric scraps - it would be fun to experiment!

Glad to hear I'm NOT the only one who tries things & has troubles sometimes! Thank you for being so open. So many tutorials on blogs only show the perfection so it makes one think that they are the only one who sometimes has bumps in the road.
I don't have a link to any projects yet. I do have some little mini birdhouses to cover in scrappy goodness & Mod Podge though after I finish up some other stuff.
I love your gazing ball!

I LOVE the gazing ball! Thats so clever! I haven't seen that one before!

I just finished a stepstool for my girls (last night!) using modge podge and cutting out letters on the cricut-turned out really cute!

http://twitpic.com/1kgod2

I'd like to try my first big Mod-Podge Project and cover an old dresser with some really cool covers from sheet music that I found at a book fair!

What a great idea!! The depth all that Mod Podge would have given it must be spectacular. Although I am in Canada and I realize I'm not eligible I'd love it if you'd go check out the wig head I'm working on using Matte Mod Podge. This is so fun, have to do more! I also used it to make napkin backgrounds for card, love the stuff!

Mary-Beth
http://www.myjourneyintoart.com/