Decorative Bottle Tutorial

In the spirit of giving something every week to fulfill my 2009 resolution, here is a tutorial I found among the many, many craft clippings I have been keeping these last 45 years....Sadly, I don't even know which magazine it came from..

Decorative Bottles

Material needed:
Bottles, glue or gel medium, pieces of wire to help position images, scraps of felt, white sand or salt, corks and images.

How to:
Cut images. Check if bottles are clean inside.
Prepare your pieces of wire by making a loop at one end and gluing a piece of felt so you won’t tear the image when positioning it.
Spread glue on the front of image and smear the felt tip so the image will stay attached while being inserted into the bottle.
Insert the wire with the image hanging from the felted end and position image, pushing it against the glass.
Press with felt tip, making sure the whole area of the image is well attached to the bottle.
Do the same for all the images.
Let glue dry completely.
Fill bottle with salt or very fine white sand and cork it to prevent spilling.

Optional finish:
After you have finished gluing the images, pour liquid varnish inside the bottle and make sure to coat all the inside of the bottle with it.
Empty the remaining varnish back into original container and let the bottle dry completely.
You can then keep it transparent or coat the inside with acrylic wall paint, the same way you did with the varnish.

Hope you all enjoy it!