What are some crafts to do with glass bottles?
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You could turn it into a decorated pencil holder. Or you could fold stars(if you know how to)and put them inside,it’ll look really pretty and can serve as a form of decoration for your room or house.
There’s a link below under the Sources if you want more ideas. Hope i helped(:
Very popular at the craft fair last year were bottles that were stuffed with Xmas lights. The lady had colected many different kinds of bottles, one was a blue wine bottle with the label still on it. You have to drill a hole in the side of the bottle for the electric cord, so safety glasses and gloves are required.
http://www.crafterstouch.com/?projectpage.aspx?projectid=122 -is the site I read, but there are more instructions on other sites in the browser.
http://www.mikegigi.com/bottle.htm
I do all kinds of things with them, especially liquor bottles that people give me that are unusual in shape and size.
You can get whiskey spouts at the discounters in the kitchen aisle. Embellish tall bottles to hold dish or liquid hand soap, vinegars, olive oils and bath oils.
You can get oil lamp assemblies at craft stores in different sizes that rest in the tops of various sized necked bottles and have a wick. You can embellish the bottle, fill it with liquid lamp or paraffin or citronella oil and they make great patio lanterns.
I clean out candle jars with lids and decorate them to use to bring soup or stews to sick friends or family and they make great gifts for home baked goodies during the holidays.
You can create all kinds of functional art objects with glass bottles. Wine bottles in particular are good choices because of their long necks.
A few ideas:
Recycled fused glass plates, bowls, etc: break the bottles and layer the pieces over a mold. Fully fuse in a kiln.
Vases: Cut the bottle around the base, seal the neck, and invert the bottle.
Candle holder and vase combo: cut the bottle below the neck, use the lower half as a vase and the upper half as a candle holder.
Mosaics: use pieces in resin or grout as a table top, plaque, or stepping stone.
Cheeseboard or serving tray: fire the bottle on a low setting so as to preserve the punt. The bottle will flatten and the punt will bend forward.
I wrote an article detailing several of these projects a few days ago. It is waiting on approval, but will be here shortly:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/user/933000/glass_lady.html
There are step-by-step instructions. Cutting glass bottles is actually very easy. You simply score them and heat them with a candle flame, then run an ice cube over the scored area. There are number of ways to decorate the glass as well: paints, PMC Silver, fused glass elements, and oven bake clay to name a few…