Tip – Bottle Cutting Accents

There are so many ways you can decorate your newly cut bottles.

Here are my recommendations for supplies that you will use over and over again.

Turn your bottles from trash to treasure!

• Glass Etch: Stencil designs on your bottles and jars with Armour Etch Glass Etching Cream
• Frost it: Dip your bottles in Armour Etch Bath. Make soft frosted votives, tealights and other decorative pieces where a soft frosted look is desired
• Rhinestones, Cabochons, glass tiles and gems: these are great accents to make your creations sparkle! Clear glass gems refract light when a candle is put inside a bottle cut into a candle holder. We have many varieties in our craft supply section
• Glass Gel Effects pens: Gorgeous clear colors, pearls and metallic’s that are easy to use and come with a fine line tip. These gels actually feel like glass once hardened and will not peel off the glass
• Rub N Buff: Will stick to any frosted surface. Use it over Sculpey clay, wine corks, wood and plastic
• Glitter: Glitter a rim, create a design, or line the inside of a bottle with glitter using the Glitter It Glue kits #61-3350 winter colors or #61-3351 Summer colors or get just the glue and use with your own glitter #61-3343
• Ceramic and Glass Markers or pens: Draw, write or color the glass with pretty glass markers instead of paint like our #86-7321 markers
• Stained Glass leading and paints: Add a stained glass look to your pieces
• Sculpey, Fimo and other oven baked clays: Create stoppers and corks, lids, lips, and decorate elements with this mold-able, flexible, oven baked clay. Some supplies you may need for working with clay are: clay tools, rolling pin, old baking sheet, aluminum foil, and an household oven
• Acrylic paints: Paint, stencil or sponge paints over your new creations. For more durability on shiny glass, use the acrylic paints designed for glass
• Tissue paper, decorative napkins, stickers and scrapbooking paper: Decoupage bottles and jars with decorative napkins or fancy tissue paper, accent with stickers, or embellish with cutouts from scrapbooking papers.
• Ribbons, laces and fancy trims: Great way to use up all those little pieces of this or that in the sewing box
• Sea shells, driftwood, rocks and dried materials: Use on lids or around the sides for a beach effect
• Spray finishes: Spray paints come is so many new styles. How about a mirror finish like the Looking Glass #61-2725 or Iridescent finish #61-2728. There also stone finishes, crackle mediums and marbling effects
• Silk and dried flowers: Use them either IN the bottle or ON the bottle!