Saturday, June 25, 2016

Upcycled Bottle

Blog Quick Quotes is having an upcycle challenge this month. I had this empty bottle to play with and had a lot of fun playing with it.


 
Acrylic paint doesn't stick real well to glass on it's own so I asked my BFF Renee who is a decorative painter, designer, etc. over at Plum Purdy  (she owns it too) how to get around that and she told me that I needed to first put a coat of paint adhesion medium on the bottle. She very kindly sent me a bottle from her inventory.

 
After sponging the medium on, I made puddles of purple, cream, blue and sunflower paints and sponged them on in a bit of a mish mash. When that coat dried I went over it again with the blue and cream then again with the purple and cream paints.

 
When the paint was dry I added a layer of Mod Podge then added some bling from Zva Creative, flowers from Queen and Co. and a bow using ribbon from my stash.
 
The flowers were cut using Cricut's Mother's Day cartridge, I hot glued them to floral wire and added some leaves I cut using one of my punches.
 
I am entering this project into this challenges:
 
 

5 comments:

  1. gorgeous bottle! great job! I love it! thank you for sharing with us at Quick Quotes this month!

    Alicia

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  2. Beautiful bottle! I love all those blues! My sister recycles wine bottles, too so I really enjoyed seeing your take on this upcycling challenge. Thanks for playing along with us over at Quick Quotes!

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  3. Thanks for joining our Fun-Day Friday Challenge @ Jo’s Scrap Shack.

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  4. This is such a beautiful bottle! You did a wonderful job Sue.... and i love the flowers you created! Lovely project! Thank you for playing along with us this week in our Funday Friday Anything Goes challenge!
    Hugs,
    Jo
    ♥ Jo's Scrap Shack ♥

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  5. LoVe your beautiful bottle. I loVe those colors and your sweet flowers. Thanks for sharing.
    Crafty hugs,
    Dawn
    DesignsByDragonfly.blogspot.com

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