Decorating bottles with your own hands

If you accidentally after a regular holiday remained a beautiful glass bottle, for example from alcohol, do not rush to throw it away. With the help of decoration techniques, it can easily be turned into an interior decoration or a great gift. Decorating glass bottles will take you a little time, and your skills will be appreciated by others.

We have already told you how to create amazing crafts from bottles, for example, a garden in a bottle . In this article you will find several master classes on decorating bottles that will help you create real masterpieces.

How to decorate a bottle?

The technique of decoration is so diverse that it is possible to create the most unique crafts from bottles of various shapes and sizes, while using improvised means such as old cloth, various ribbons, buttons, threads, salt and even toilet paper.

Decoration of bottles with nylon pantyhose

  1. We clean the bottle of labels.
  2. For work, we need an old kapron stocking and PVA glue. We impregnate the entire stocking with glue and put it on the bottle.
  3. We give the relief pattern and dry the bottle. Then we ground the stocking with white acrylic paint and leave it to dry again.
  4. Choose a napkin with a pattern and cut out the necessary element. Separate the top layer.
  5. We paste the picture on the bottle. We dry. We paint the bottle in the required color and let it dry. Decor can be supplemented with sequins, ribbon, butterfly.

Decoration of bottles with salt

It will take: a bottle (without labels), salt, gouache, palette, brush, funnel, sieve, plates.

  1. Pour the paint into the salt (the necessary colors can be obtained by mixing several colors in the pallet) and knead it well. We send it to the oven heated to 100 degrees for about an hour.
  2. Dry the salt again with a fork and sift through a sieve.
  3. In a completely dry bottle through the funnel, we salt the salt, changing the color. We stop the cork and decorate the bottle.

Decoration of bottles with macaroni

This is a very interesting variant of the pasta . It will take: a bottle, glue, adhesive thermo-pistol, macaroni, peas, croup.

  1. Degreased with alcohol, the bottle is spread with glue.
  2. Starting from the bottom of the bottle, we glue the peas, then the croup.
  3. Macaroni in the form of "bows" split into 4 parts, and then using a glue thermo-gun to form a flower with a pea in the middle.
  4. Cover the bottle pasted with ordinary pasta.
  5. In an arbitrary order forming an ornament we glue flowers on the bottle, we use the pasta "leaves" as leaves. We paint the bottle.

Decoration of bottles with cloth

You will need: a bottle, a cloth, glue, acrylic paints, a napkin with a pattern, an acrylic lacquer.

  1. We rip off the label and degrease the bottle with alcohol. Dipped in a glue cloth.
  2. We wrap the bottle with a cloth, giving a relief pattern. We leave to dry.
  3. We paint the bottle with white acrylic paint.
  4. Cut out a pattern from the napkin and separate the top layer. We paste the picture on the bottle.
  5. We paint the bottle in the main color and let it dry. Then, with acrylic mother-of-pearl, we make folds and dry again. At the end, we cover the bottle with varnish.

Decoration of bottles with toilet paper

It will take: a bottle of dark glass, toilet paper, white acrylic paint, PVA glue, rhinestones, lacquer, brush.

  1. For a bottle that has been degreased with alcohol, we paint the designed drawing. We dry.
  2. Tear the toilet paper into pieces and moisten it with glue. On the drawing, create unevenness with wet paper and leave to dry.
  3. We cover the whole surface of the drawing with paint.
  4. In the end, add a few rhinestones.
  5. We open the entire bottle with varnish.

Decorating bottles with your own hands is an exciting activity that does not require special skills and skills, the main thing is desire, a little patience and boundless imagination!