Recycled Wine Bottles

Hello again

Took a break from paper and card making this season to work on some old wine/alcohol bottles.

First the rum bottle...  tried acrylic gold paint as did not have any gold colour in glass paint and was impatient to start working on it.   It adhered but did not look good.  Then a  crafty friend advised me to put on a layer of Mod Podge and after it dried to paint over it again.  It worked beautifully.  The image is from an old Barbara Cartland book.

Pairing it with the second bottle....used gold paper doilies for embellishment.

and the last one....I call it the Fall Leaves bottle....love the black opaque glass paint.  I cut out the maple leaves from a sheet of paper, stuck them on the bottle and then edged them with gold glass liner.

All bottles given a final coat of Matt Mod Podge.

Thanks for visiting.

Lena

Fall leaves ice pail

 

There was a time when I thought glass painting was only for windows !  I’ve come a long way since and there’s no end to visualizing images on glass. The biggest "wow" factor for me was when sunlight shone through the glass of my first ever attempt at faux stained glass painting.  I now see painting on a simple object as creating something pretty, out of nothing.  

There was this plain ice pail I bought that I just had to work on.  I love drawing twigs and leaves.

It doesn't show on the photos but the leaves are edged with gold and copper glass liner.

It looks really good when filled with ice cubes that lend a frosty background to the fall leaves.
I later gifted it to the younger of my two brothers.

And now I must catch up with my favourite blogs - can’t wait to see all the projects that my blogger friends came up with.

Lena

Orchids & Butterfly

This was made for a friend who wanted to give someone a handmade gift.  She left the choice of design to me and had it framed later.  The orchids and butterfly were taken separately from Chantal's free stained glass patterns.  The choice of colours is mine.  It's a pity the glitter does not show in the picture.  When the paint was still wet, I sprinkled matching glitter on the deep purple orchid petals.  Actually it was the first time I attempted glitter on glass paint and the result was rewarding.

Faux stained glass panel

I haven't posted for quite a few days as there was a problem with accessing my blog posts.

This is a panel I painted a few years ago.  The pattern is a collage of images taken from Chantal's stained glass patterns.  I choose some of my favourite flowers; daffodils and morning glory and ofcourse, butterflies.  

I first painted on the sheet of glass and then had the carpenter frame and mount it above our front door.

 

 a close up

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Altered Fish Bowl

 



 

This used to be a terrarium.  The miniature plants grew abnormally large so I transplanted them into flower pots.  This is the altered bowl.

 

 

I've used mostly green and blue shades of glass paint.  Unfortunately, the 3D silver outline and small motifs do not stand out in this photo.