Sunflower Thrift Store Clock Makeover

If you find an ordinary clock at your local thrift store don’t pass it by for what it IS, but buy it for what it COULD be! This Sunflower Thrift Store Clock makeover is one affordable thrift flip that you’re not gonna want to miss!

Thrift Store Clock Makeover with a Sunflower vintage rice paper face with a small bee and butterfly, black outer rim with gold rub n' buff. DIY thrift flip decoration.

For the longest time, I have been telling Cathy from Digital Deco Designs that she needs to make more Sunflower designs. I am obsessed with her one and only Sunflower paper “The Victoria”, so much so, that she told me I’m banned from using it anymore LOL!

Well she FINALLY made some new sunflower prints and boy did she absolutely rock ’em! There’s an entire Sunflower Bundle that is Out.Of.This.World.

Sunflower Thrift Store Clock Makeover hanging on a gallery wall with other sunflower statement pieces.

The particular print that I chose for this Thrift Store Clock Makeover is “Bee a Sunflower 1“, but don’t worry I used a different one “Bee a Sunflower 2” to make a Thrift Store Framed Sign. So you’ll have inspo for both of the “Bee a Sunflower” prints!

If you are not familiar with Digital Deco Designs you are MISSING out with a capital M! She makes gorgeous rice paper printables that you can either download and print at home, or you can have them printed and shipped to you.

4 sunflower rice paper prints, a yellow large frame, a puzzle piece frame, and the generic clock sitting on a desk all laid out.

I have a printer, so I download and print them onto rice paper at home, but either way, once you start Mod Podging rice paper, you can’t stop!

As for this Thrift Store Clock Makeover, I have this one spot on my Sunflower Gallery Wall that I am just not fully happy with. It has a small sunflower on it, but it needed something different. The second I saw this boring old generic clock I knew exactly what to do!

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Supplies Needed to Makeover a Thrift Store Clock into a Sunflower Clock

Thrift store clock, generic clock face with light brown outer rim.

Digital Deco Designs “Bee a Sunflower” (You can get the entire bundle here)
Thrift Store Clock (If you can’t find one get a generic Amazon one)
Black Chalk Paint
Antique Gold Rub n’ Buff
Vinyl Small 1/2 inch lines OR Black Paint Pen (for the tick marks)
Mod Podge
Hot glue gun

How to Makeover a Thrift Store Sunflower Clock

I made over this Thrift Store Clock with Digital Deco Designs rice paper on video, so you can WATCH it or click on the picture right below.

Amanda holding the completed project on a Facebook live thumbnail.

Watch the full video here

I was worried about taking the clock apart and then getting it back together, but it was actually super easy. Just unscrew the back, pull it off, take off the hands and set them aside, and then you are left with the round face of the clock.

The back of the clock showing the battery pack.

Mod Podge the “Bee a Sunflower 1” rice paper print to the round wood clock face, and then sand the excess paper off the edges.

My paper was a little bit thinner then the round surface, so I just took some of the excess paper and covered the left and right side where the paper didn’t reach. Once it’s all said and done you can’t tell at all it just looks like that’s how it’s made!

Next, paint the entire wooden outer part of the clock all black.

You can tape off the glass if you are worried about getting paint on it, but I just rubbed Vaseline around it. That way if the black paint touched it, it would wipe right off.

The outer edge of the clock, painted black with gold rub n' buff detail.

Now for the best part….the Rub n’ Buff! Use your finger and rub it all along the outer rim, and on the little lip on the back part of it. If you have a different clock, then rub it on any of the parts that pop out or stick up to accent it.

Lastly, use small black strips of vinyl, or a black paint pen to draw the tick marks. I only did 12, 3, 6, and 9, but you can do all of the hours if you want. This clock is solely for decoration, so I’m not worried about being able to actually tell time.

The completed clock after it was remade, sitting on a desk face up.

Poke the clock hands through the center of the rice paper, and then put this bad boy back together!

The front center of the clock showing the clock hands coming out of the center of the sunflower.

NOW the clock looks way better then it did! What a gorgeous transformation. This was the most boring and generic clock EVER, and after this thrift store makeover it’s not a beautiful statement piece.

I put this one right up on mu Sunflower Gallery Wall and it was the perfect piece to complete it!

Are you going to makeover a Thrift Store Clock into something fabulous like this Sunflower Clock? Shoot…are you gonna makeover anything at all?! If you do, I’d love to see it! Pop on over to our free Craftspiration Facebook group, and join in on the fun by posting a pic of your Tiered Trays, DIY’s and crafts. I just love to see all your creative and crafty creations.

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