Sunday, August 4, 2013

Decorated Wine Bottle

So Pinterest is trending all these decorated wine bottle lamps so I thought I'd take my turn at it.  Combining a bunch of little things I liked from other people's onto my own bottle.


So first off I drilled a hole in the bottom of the bottle, I have another post on how to do that if you need or you can find other tutorials on Pinterest.  Then I decorated the bottle with mancala beads to make bunches of grapes.  I made the biggest bunch on the bottom since they add a lot of weight onto the bottle.  If you go to A.C. Moore or Michael's or any other craft store they should have leaf shaped beads I used for the tops of the bunches.  Thankfully for my friend's 21 birthday we had custom bottles of wine with nice labels so I could use that.  If you want to take the label off your bottle and work with that you can try peeling it off yourself or put the bottle in a pot of boiling water and the label comes off fairly easily.

Here's some close ups of the bunches of grapes if you're like me and it helps to see something to copy.


Definitely going to make some more parts to the wine bottle decorating, I have a couple more ideas for more bottles already.