This summer, I picked up a few trophies at garage sales, then took them apart, salvaging the cups and some marble bases.
Most were dated 20-30 years ago, but I wanted them to look old, and metallic. First step was dark brown chalk paint.
Next I used a flat pewter and shades of metallic paints, including bronze and silver. I applied those in a messy, stippling fashion leaving some of the under color showing through.
They each got simple, rusty embellishments.
The plan was to fill them with trees. But when I did that with the large cups, they didn't look right. The bottle brush trees were too small, the paper ones too streamlined. They looked kind of like bullets.
So I’ve displayed the big cups without trees. I kept one for myself, and brought the rest into Juju for the November sale.
The smaller ones were ideal for my bottle brush trees. And one tall, skinny trophy got covered in old paper on some of it, then I removed the topper and replaced it with a tree. I really like that one.
Actually, I love them all. This was a project that I was very into. I guess you could say, I am loving these cups.