this bottle was a bit more difficult. I Painted the bottle white then in pencil drew my Santa on the bottle. I ten painted the red on the bottle. The hair and beard is unraveled cotton balls and modge podge. as is the nose and then painted. I used a piece of black ribbon and foil for the belt and buckle. I used white glitter over the fur of his coat. The hair and beard has hardened and it appears ceramic... After I painted his hands and face on I modge podged the entire bottle to encase it all and make it shiny and pretty! Hope you make one of your own!.
My son (23) and his friends save me bottles for my arts and crafts. I made the altered bottle with the bat on top and castle blocks (in pic to right ) for him as a thank you! He recently brought me a Royal Crown bottle. The bottle is really beautiful and I want to use the natural beauty of what ever I use in my art or as my art. As always when I am not sure of what to do I leave it in site of my day and at some point within a few days I figure it out.....Sure enough I did with this bottle too! The crazy part is that I used perminant markers to create the fuax colored or stained glass. I used modge podge but you must use sparringly and do one color at time. I left the lable spot open to see the beauty of the glass and color. I made another one that looks like glass balls...also one could use a dry erase marker to right what booze goes into it...as each of my decanters are functional art!
As always I like to use something that would have been thrown away or in recycling as my art because it is free and it helps save our earth one project at a time. Having young adult kids and all of their friends I never run out of booze bottles of all sizes, shapes and colors. The next best thing is that the possabilities are endless. You can use anything or any combination of things to decorate and embellish. The idea is whatever you can imagine you can create on a bottle. What also is nice is that they are functioning art. They are a decanter for alcohol. Because I beleive the ideas are endless....I am going to share with you some of my recent altered bottles....Under christmas is the christmas bottles...these are many different bottles... enjoy!
this was made for Liz and her hubby out of the invitation and thank you card. I went with the invitation theeme and added on to it.
My son brought home the bottle topper and I wanted to make a bottle fitting of the topper.
I loved the look of the glass so all I did was add this beautiful ribbon I had and then glittered the top gold to match....so simple!