I recently completed a project re-making some old platters I've had forever. I bought these plates several years ago on clearance at the Pottery Barn. They have a very cool purple and red iridescent color, but I was never able to find a use for them, so they've pretty much stayed in storage.
I used general metallic black acrylic craft paint, large glass beads, and tacky glue to adhere them to the plates.
I plan on hanging the plates on the (newly painted) build-out above my kitchen cabinets.
Here's the finished result, I did have some problems with putting on too much glue (you only need a small dot). The glue dries clear, but does show up against the very smooth background. The picture doesn't really show it, but the beads are very shiny. I used three different kinds of beads, a bronzy brown round bead, a green round bead, both of which had a opalescent look, and a metallic looking silver rectangular bead. I alternated using two of each color on each plat, in different geometric designs.
