Altered bottle

Jazz up your bathroom/bedroom by giving your toiletry bottles a new lease of life or by recycling old bottles and filling with bath salts, lotions and bubble baths.  Altered bottles can pretty up any space and you can also use them to give as gifts.  Alter two or three and fill with buttons, brads and other small items as a gift for a crafty friend or decorate and fill with sweets for a child’s birthday before placing in a gift bagÂ

For this project you will need

Fiskars cutting mat

Fiskars craft knife

Fiskars circle punch

Fiskars  Sunburst border punch

Chalks and applicator (optional)

DCM memory wire

2 fabric butterflies (or embellishment of your choice)

A piece of patterned paper

A length of ribbon

DS adhesive tape

Clear drying glue

Metal ruler

Measuring tape

First of all measure the circumference and height of your bottle.  Add approx 1/2 an inch to each measurement.  For example… for a bottle which is 3″ round and 4″ high you would need a piece of paper 3.5″ x 4.5″.   

Cut out the size you require using your craft knife, cutting mat and a metal ruler. 

Using the Fiskars sunburst border punch… punch along the top and bottom or your paper and then apply chalk to the edges if required.

Apply DS tape to the wrong side of one of the remaining straight edges and wrap your paper around the bottle, overlapping the edge to secure with the tape.

 Take a length of DCM wire and fold in half, twist the wire by placing left over right from the looped end.  Then coil the wire and apply to the bottle with clear drying glue.  Add your fabric butterfly with glue.

 Wrap a piece of ribbon around the neck of the bottle and tie in a bow.

Finally punch a circle of paper to fit the top of your bottle and glue another fabric butterfly to the edge of the lid.

This is just a design to inspire you to create your own altered bottles  but the options are endless.  Using different papers and embellishments to suit your colour scheme or occasion you can create all sorts of gorgeous displays or gifts.  Try covering your bottles with fabrics that you have stamped or embroidered following the basic guide to covering them, add tags to the neck of the bottle with wire or thread for a completely different look and let your imagination guide you

Happy Creating

Chris xx