Hello Crafters…
Firstly, thank you so much for all the lovely comments that
you left on my village in a bottle. I am back again today with another set of
altered bottles….
The best thing about this project is, you first clean the
bottle and then you mess and dirty the place to make it look old and aged
again!!! I love the vintage and grungy look of Tims’s work and none of my
projects are complete without a bit of tearing, distressing or using Distress
inks!!!
What more, my bottles today are based on a postal theme and
have used the stamp set from ITSY BITSY ”Vintage stamps”.
The bottles were first given a coat of gesso and then went
on to work 2 different techniques.
Bottle 1:
After the gesso, gave a coat of acrylic color in off white
and then inked with DI, vintage photo on all the edges to give an aged look.
Later mixed black and brown acrylic colors and did a generous color splat on
the bottle. I fussy cut some floral print from DCWV French stack and using home
made modge podge stuck it to the bottle. The cut out was inked with vintage
photo too.
I tore out the word “beauty” from the same stack and then using the
postage stamp and scrip stamp from the set went about randomly stamping all
over the bottle with vintage photo DI.The butterfly too is from the same stack.
I then cut out a few mini tags from the same stack,
distressed the edges using TH distressing tool and stamped some friendship
quotes on it and hung it around the bottle neck with natural twine.
Bottle 2:
This is vintage style too but after the gesso, I painted a
lovely apple green acrylic color and then used the crackle medium to create
cracks. When it was tacky, I applied the top coat of yellow ochre and voila!
There appeared the lovely cracks…Oh! I so love this look and it looked even
better when I inked the edges with vintage photo.
Here, I have used a lot of Prima stamps…the doll is paper
pieced in vintage colors and pearls and colored using D inks too. Have used the
vintage postage stamp in this bottle too and the blooms are all hand made and
have the script stamping on it too. I have used TH tattered florals die to
create all the flowers here, inked and misted them with picked raspberry and
milled lavender and then inked the edges with vintage photo to give the dried
up look!
The PP is from “something blue” stack from Prima and have
fussy cut some roses here. The tag too has a Prima sentiment. The lace flower
on the lid is hand made too and inked with picked raspberry and vintage photo. The pocket watch is using Joycrafts die and TH visual artistry stamp!
The stamping against the cracks on the bottle just gives a
lovely worn out look and personally , I like the 2nd bottle better
then the first!
How about you??? Thank you so much for stopping by and would
love to hear your feedback.
Am linking this to…
Until then,
Happy Crafting and recycling.
Hugs.
Wow! Not one but 2 gorgeous altered bottles. You've put together some great ideas on both of these. Don't as me choose a favourite! Like you I think mmmm.. Bottle number 1 ... But then again.... bottle number 2 ..... Love them both! Thanks for joining in with the ePlay challenge. Good luck x
ReplyDeleteThese are so lovely!! Bottle #1 is my favorite, but #2 is a close runner up!! Thanks for joining us at Make My Monday, Joan dt
ReplyDeleteBoth are great works of Heart !!!
ReplyDeleteHi Rupa :-). Beautifully distressed bottles and the tattered florals are stunning on the second bottle. I agree that Tim's style is fabulous and I too use some form of Distress products on all my projects. Great to have you hop on board at A Vintage Journey this fortnight
ReplyDeleteHugs Annie x
What fantastic bottles! I love this idea and maybe someday can try it! Thanks for joining Love to Scrap!
ReplyDeleteWhat a fab piece work - thanks for playing along this week at MMM - Jacqueline xx
ReplyDeleteTwo super altered bottles. Thank you for joining us at Make My Monday
ReplyDeleteLove how you've altered both of these pretty bottles Rupa! the florals are so pretty - and the twine wrapped top is so creative! Thanks so much for joining in the ePlay Altered bottle challenge!
ReplyDeleteYou are amazing with recycling! Your bottles are gorgeous and the time you put into them really shows! Fabulous vintage look. Thanks for joining us at Love to Scrap! Challenge Blog
ReplyDeleteTina dt
How lovely your altered bottles are, with lots of interesting techniques too. Thanks for joining us on A Vintage Journey.
ReplyDeleteAlison x
Beautiful bottles, I especially love the cream colored one with flowers/butterfiles...my all time fav theme :) I found you via your comments on The Artistic Stamper's creativity blog. I guess your name caught my attention as my name is Rupa too. I love to paint and craft too although I don't seem have enough hours left in the day after my day job. Glad to have found your site.
ReplyDeleteBoth bottles turned out awesome. Love all the embellishments on each bottle. Wonderful way to alter bottles!!! So glad you played along with us in this months ePlay challenge. xoxo
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