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DIY bottle vase

For those who like to make various crafts, there are many ways to make a vase with your own hands from ordinary bottles. Master classes allow you to decorate things even for beginners. What can be used in bottle design? Use the instructions below to create a unique vase at home.

How to make a glass bottle vase

To make a vase from a bottle with your own hands, you first need to create a base by cutting off the neck. You can leave the blank and so, but then the bouquet will not fit in it. If you do not have a cutting tool at hand, to remove the neck you will need:

  • 0.5 m thick woolen thread;
  • matches or a lighter;
  • container with water;
  • solvent in the form of gasoline, acetone, kerosene or alcohol;
  • gloves with goggles for safety;
  • sharpening block or sandpaper.

To cut off the neck, use the following instructions:

  1. Mark a line on the bottle along which you will cut the neck.
  2. Soak the thread with solvent.
  3. Wrap the marked line 3 times with a thread.
  4. Holding the bottle horizontally, set fire to the thread.
  5. After the thread burns out, quickly lower the bottle into cold water - the glass will burst from a sharp change in temperature at the place of heating.
  6. Treat chips with a bar or sandpaper.

In decoupage technique

Today it is very fashionable in different countries to decorate bottles using decoupage technique. Its essence lies in gluing a pattern on the surface and then fixing it with varnish. Decoupage of the vase takes place in the following order:

  1. Degrease the surface of the bottle with alcohol.
  2. Cover the glass blank with white primer or acrylic paint of the same color in one layer. You can use paint to match the napkin.
  3. When the paint dries, apply PVA glue with the next layer.
  4. Apply a napkin or its cut out part. Sponge, brush or sponge, smooth from the center to the contours.
  5. Mask too noticeable contours with paint using a sponge or brush.
  6. Finish the details, glue on rhinestones or beads, or look for a painting tutorial.
  7. Cover with 2-3 layers of varnish.

Dot painting

Spot painting bottles requires tools such as:

  • acrylic paints;
  • thin marker;
  • gold or silver outline on glass;
  • cotton buds or cotton wool with matches;
  • brushes, preferably synthetic.

To paint a homemade vase, you can choose any pattern - flowers, tree branches, an intricate pattern, children's cartoon characters or, for example, a peacock. To apply them to your bottle, follow the instructions:

  1. Degrease the surface with alcohol.
  2. Sketch on paper a sketch of a peacock, its tail - make the details richer, emphasize the beauty of the bird.
  3. With a felt-tip pen, transfer the drawing to the bottle, outline it on the glass, holding the tube at an angle, like a pencil or pen. Don't press it too hard to avoid blobs.
  4. Let the sketch dry, remove the remnants of the felt-tip pen with a cotton swab.
  5. Start filling the space of the drawing with dots of paint, making them in different sizes and colors. It is desirable that some kind of pattern can be traced. Start painting with the bird's body.
  6. In the same technique, complete the tail and wings. In feathers, leave an empty central part.
  7. Glue a glass ball into the middle of each feather or fill the space with beads. The peacock is ready.

Decorated with ribbons

Mother-of-pearl ribbons are another idea for decorating a bottle vase. The simplest option involves just a few steps:

  1. Applying glue to a small area of ​​the bottle. Use a special composition for decoupage or PVA.
  2. Wrapping the workpiece with ribbon or threads, and both a plain vase and a colored one look beautiful. You can also take any width. Wind the tape or thread tightly - so that there is no gap.

The finished vase can be left as it is or decorated with beads with bows, and also supplemented with kanzashi technique - accessories in the form of flowers from the same ribbons. Wrap the bottle either horizontally or obliquely. In addition, a beautiful design is gluing the tape in the form of a kind of pigtail - when the ends cross in one direction for evenness of the pattern.

How to make a vase from a plastic bottle

Vases can be made from plastic bottles: take standard or large five-liter ones. Any size and shape will fit. For the simplest option, you only need a bottle, scissors and a clerical knife:


Openwork

An openwork vase is unusual and original. For such crafts from plastic bottles you will need:

  • empty plastic bottle;
  • marker;
  • dye;
  • a nail on a wooden base or an ordinary metal one.

To create an openwork vase, use the following step-by-step instructions:

  1. Cut off the neck of the bottle, apply the pattern you need with a marker. It is not necessary to make only round holes - chaotic ones look no less beautiful and unique.
  2. Heat a nail or soldering iron and make holes according to the picture. The main thing - do not connect the holes, so as not to get big holes.
  3. Paint the vase with a spray can or stained glass paints.
  4. Pour water and put flowers - the vase is ready.

floor

A simple, but at the same time very original version of a floor vase made of plastic bottles and a glass jar will perfectly fit into the interior. The height of the finished product is about 95 cm. This thing is easy to wash, because the hand passes freely inside. Here's what you need to make such a vase:

  • napkins, toilet paper;
  • PVA glue, adhesive tape;
  • 14 plastic milk bottles;
  • 3 liter jar.

Having collected all these simple materials, proceed to the manufacture of the vase itself:

  1. Fasten the bottles in pairs with adhesive tape - 12 pieces bottom to bottom, and 2 - necks.
  2. Connect with tape - put a pair connected by necks in the center, and place the remaining 6 pairs in a circle.
  3. Place a 3-liter jar on top, attach it with tape to the base.
  4. Next, decorate the vase using the papier-mâché technique - make the first layer from napkins and undiluted PVA, and the second from toilet paper with the same glue, only half diluted with water.
  5. Leave the product to dry, repair the irregularities with napkins.
  6. Make a pattern with a glue gun, glue flowers or other accessories with it.
  7. Apply an additional pattern using a stencil, napkin and putty.
  8. After applying the putty, remove the napkin immediately.
  9. Dry 1-2 hours.
  10. Go over the pattern with sandpaper.
  11. Paint everything with spray paint.

small vases

To make small vases, you will need plastic bottles and a few more materials and tools:

  • scissors;
  • stationery knife;
  • tape or glue.

The instructions for making such vases are very simple:

  1. Rinse the bottles, cut off the necks and cut the top into petals.
  2. Bend the petals outward and attach them to the bottle itself with glue or tape.
  3. Paint the finished vases with any colors, complement the decor with beads, beads or other accessories. At the bottom you can make holes for water to flow out, but then you need a stand.

Photo of original bottle vases

In addition to the above methods of making and decorating handmade vases, there are many more interesting decor options. The drawing can be applied using a stencil from ordinary electrical tape, as shown in the photo - you get a bottle with intricate stripes, both in one direction and in different ones. For children, a good fine motor training will be vases decorated with improvised bulk materials or pasta, pebbles or shells. In cases of wrapping with satin ribbons, the option of using a rope instead looks very bold.

From glass and plastic bottles

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