INSTAGRAM BLCPROJECT UPDATE V

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Bottle Art Pictures By KS Vishnu

Pictures of recycled bottle art

We love sharing bottle art pictures and what inspires our readers.

Take a look at the pictures of beautiful hand painted bottles that reflect the beauty of it’s creator’s craftsmanship. Decorative attachments, bold colors and brilliant brush strokes give these recycled bottles a new look and purpose.

Recycled orange crackle bottle art
Jute and red rose recycled bottle art
Blue cloth and robe recycled bottle art
Recycled bottle art by KS Vishnu

My inspiration behind the bottle. I am working as Postman here. I have some more free time than others because of less working time. Cooking, making such things and travelling are my hobbies. This free time I used to make such bottles. My girl friend and Youtube videos are helped me a lot. I wish to thanks those who helped me for making bottles.

Thanking you, Sincerely

KS Vishnu

We would like to thank KS Vishnu for sharing his hand decorated bottle pictures with us.

If you have been inspired by these bottle art pictures please leave a comment below. KS Vishnu has an Instagram account at: ks_vishnu_official

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Wooden Hearts And The Art Of Mason Jars

Wooden Hearts

Up-cycling the Mason Jar has become an art form for Wooden Hearts!

Amazon Handmade Bottle Craft Round-up

Handmade Bottle Crafts on Amazon

With the Holidays behind us already we will probably be taking our Christmas decor down this weekend. It all went by way too fast (by our standards and not the shopping stores that had decorations up before Halloween). The days still feel dark and gloomy and so it makes it even harder to take down these festive lights that seem to bring a small amount of warmth to our home. Leaving everything up until spring might be seen as being lazy with a little pinch of crazy on top. What’s the alternative? I’m glad you asked.

Decorative bottle decor on the Amazon Handmade store has always been a nice alternative to big box store’s ‘one size fits all’ concept. Each hand made bottle craft is carefully constructed and offers a unique item that is exclusive to it’s end user. Below you will find just a small sampling of the many bottle craft decorations that are available.

Corona pendant lamp made from the bottle

Courtesy of Was A Bottle

This pendant light has been made from Corona beer bottles. The bottle is diamond cut, sanded, polished and beveled leaving a smooth finish with no rough or sharp edges.

Jack Daniels Gentlemen Jack Bottle Lamp

Courtesy of Drunken Collectibles

Made from an up-cycled 1.75L Gentlemen Jack glass bottle with a Burnt Brown painted wooden base. Bottle lamp comes with an LED Daylight bulb, and the option to be purchased with or without a shade.

Welcome To Mermaid Avenue, Lighted Wine Bottle

Courtesy of Old Crows Treasures

This Beach Cottage Decor offers a clear lighted wine bottle. Lights can be turned off by a switch on the cork. Battery operated, it stands approximately fourteen inches tall.

Flowers, Music Score, Butterfly handmade artistic lamp

Courtesy of Bottles by Amelia

This handmade artistic Table lamp is lit with USB (standard size) rechargeable LED lights (no cord to plug in). Glass bottle is hand painted, coated with mod podge, paper napkin, decorative ribbon, and beads.

Night light recycle bottle lamp, fairy lights

Courtesy of Emerald Dreams Gift

This Recycle bottle lamp offers a unique one of a kind hand painted night light ready to ship. Beautiful during the day and when you plug it in at night it illuminates your house to create an amazing effect and Fairy tale mood.

We always like to remind everyone that when you purchase a handmade product, you are purchasing something that was made uniquely styled and fashioned. Never to be replicated.

Instagram BLCproject Update II

Seasons greetings! I can’t believe another year is winding down. It’s been amazing to see everyone’s bottle craft pictures on social media. One of the highlights that we’ve seen is the Instagram page for the Bottle Lamp Community. The #BLCproject currently has over 700 posts. Thank you to everyone who has contributed and please keep them coming.

If your new to the BLCproject (Bottle Lamp Community project) then let me bring you up to speed. The Instagram page that we set up to curate bottle art pictures became overwhelmed with contributions from our readers. So to simplify the whole process we created the hash tag that would allow everyone to submit their pictures without the hassle of waiting for us to re-post them. Voila, the project has taken off and daily submissions are happening.

Both Silke and I would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our readers for making this web-site possible. We enjoy your spirit of creativity and your comforting words of encouragement. 

Season’s Greetings,

Nick Jager

Bottle-Lamp.com

Adventures In Glass Painting Continued

Glass Bottle Paint Project Featured Image

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.

My first attempt at glass bottle painting left me with a lot of room for improvement. In a second attempt to try and improve upon my original idea, I decided to accentuate the wordage that I had stenciled on with an overlaying glitter paint on the outside of the bottle.

The first go around I had painted the back side of the glass. Between the brush strokes and un-even application of the paint, it seemed more practical to go with something that was a little more forgiving when it came to applying it. I decided to overlay all of my text with Mod Podge Extreme Glitter.

Mod Podge Extreme Glitter

Using the exact same bottle and scoring and separating it in the exact same spot, I was going to re-create the same word lay-out that I had put together on the original.

Flower Vase Decals

Taking it a step further, I also went and painted the words with the exact same paint. Once all of the stencil painting was complete I allowed a full day for it to dry. The last thing that I wanted to do was start smearing all of the words together with my top layer of Mod Podge.

Glass Bottle Paint Project

The new final result – Not too bad. It still isn’t exactly what I was hoping for but this is a huge improvement from the last bottle that I had painted. What’s frustrating is that it’s still hard to read all the words that I put on the bottle. Curing the paint helped finalize the drying and eliminated the milky white coloring that the Mod Podge had left behind. FYI – I put the curing instructions in the original post.

Glass Bottle Stencil Painting

In the picture (above), you can easily see the word ‘Love‘ but sitting right next to it is the word ‘Relax‘. The two colors are too close to being the same so I’ll have to switch to something else if I want to get this to work. On the other side is the word ‘Home‘ which is the same font size as the word ‘Love‘, but it was painted in green and is hard to see as well.

This ones a keeper. I’m not sure what it will be kept for but I’m in no hurry to throw it out. If Silke wants to use it for flowers or a kitchen utensil holder then that’s fine with me. With that said I’m ready to head off in a new direction with the glass painting. I have more stencils to play around with and maybe I’ll try something that isn’t going to go onto clear glass. I’ll have to find some colored glass bottles for my next attempt.

Adventures In Glass Painting

Adventures In Glass Painting

What you envision happening may not always be what you end with.

With so many different glass paints to choose from, I really wanted to venture off into my inner artistic side to make something. Painting free hand wasn’t really my strong suit so the stencils seemed like the next logical choice.

My go to bottle as of late has been the Finlandia Vodka bottle. It’s thick and it has these really cool ridges on the side. By simply cutting of the top I was left with a 1 and 3/4″ flat surface to paint on. A nice even break left me with a minimal amount of sanding and I now had my glass vase ready to decorate.

Flower Vase Decals

Using the “Happy Words” stencil set, I set out to place the decals all the way around bottle. Random at first but made coherent by running some of them vertically to keep other words separated. So far so good. Now all I had to do was paint it.

Glass Vase Paint Project

Narrowing down the right colors. Sticking with glitter glues, I used the Fiery Red for the “Love” stencil and green for the “Home” one. Once again, I had envisioned that each word would have it’s own unique color and then just use a fourth color to offset the vertical words.

Painting with the Detail Painter

Applying the paints with the detail painter. I had never used these brushes before but now that I have they make perfect sense. By applying the paint in a dabbing type motion your guaranteed to get the paint into the smaller areas of the stencil without getting paint underneath it. Using the smallest one from the detail set I was able to fill in all of the little nooks and crannies that were there. As per the instructions, once you’re done painting, remove the stencil while the paint is still wet. When I finished with a color I simply went over to the sink to clean up the stencils and brush with mild soapy water. They cleaned up very nicely and placed evenly back onto the stencil sheet so that they could be re-used later.

Stenciled Glass Vase

The detail on the stencils was really impressive. The little detail brushes had worked out perfectly. My only complaint would be that the words were really hard to see. I was hoping that they would have stood out more. I had a plan to fix this. Of course this is the point where everything went wrong.

Interior Painting

I thought that if I painted the back side of the glass, the stenciled words would stand out more. Using a flat nylon brush I began to paint the inside of the vase. My brush strokes were standing out but I still wasn’t discouraged. I would simply apply a second or third coat to remedy this.

Finished Project

The end result – Epic Fail! Not only did the painting look like a hack job but the words on the outside were still hard to read. By the way, I painted three coats on the interior wall. The weird part is that I really don’t know at this point what I could have done differently to get a better result. Maybe a different color or different type of paint.

There is a final step that you take to seal the deal on this. The bake to cure method used for curing the paints would help make sure that they would stick around for awhile. As ugly as this thing was I went through the process of curing it anyway just so I could see how it was done.

Bake-to-Cure Method Allow painted glass project to dry at least one hour. Make sure the paint is dry to the touch before baking. Place project in a cool oven. Set oven to 350° F and bake for 30 minutes. Turn oven off. Allow glass project to cool down in the oven to room temperature, then remove.

At this point, if the painting had gone a whole lot better, this would have been a really cool art piece that we actually would have used. From here it will eventually migrate to a shelf out in the garage and then maybe some day when I’m grumbling to myself about the excessive amount of things that I’ve collected it will finally make it to the dumpster. It’s just so hard to let go.

The Good – The paint did it’s job exactly as planned. The stencils were perfect and it’s mentioned that they can be re-used up to twenty times! The special little brushes were truly amazing.

The Bad – I can’t paint. Quitting my day job is not an option. If there ever was a starving artist then I’m it.

The Ugly – O.k. maybe I won’t wait so long to throw that thing away.

Let us know about your painting experiences in the comments below. I’m open to criticism. Please, be gentle.

Wine Bottle To Flower Vase Project

If you ever find yourself in a creative rut, then you might want to look and see what products are available to use.

Plaid online has this moto on their home page; “Plaid Crafts is your source for creative products, education, and inspiration.” This was enough to entice me to check out and see what was available and once again find inspiration for my next bottle craft project.

Plaid Crafts Homepage

From the many different types of paints to the brushes you will use to apply them, Plaid Crafts has everything that you could imagine. I’ve never really worked with this medium before and it was a little bit overwhelming at first. Paints broke down into; Multi-Surface, Enamel, Chalk, Frosted Glass, numerous glitters and then of course everyone’s favorite – Mod Podge. I soon came to learn that Mod Podge had a variation as well; Extreme Glitter!

Paint Brushes for every occasion. The brushes that are labeled “Best for Glass & Fabric” looked like the perfect fit for the projects that I had in mind. This pack included; Flat brushes, Scruffy brushes, and Liner brushes. Another paint brush set that was made for Glass & Ceramic surfaces came with six varieties including; Wash, Flat, Angle Shader, Filbert, Round, and Liner. Behind each name was a visual picture that helped me make the connection to what it was that they actually did (I have a lot to learn).

Glass and Ceramic Brushes

On top of the brushes also came the Detail Painter. These pencil shaped tools will come in handy when your applying the paint to the stencils. By minimizing the bleeding that can occur while your painting, the blunt edge actually pushes the stencil down to the surface to avoid the paint from going underneath. Once again, I didn’t even know these existed!

Detail Painter

Peel and Stick painting stencils. The endless fonts, wordage, and designs will have you feeling like a kid in a candy store. The ‘Happy Words’ and ‘Wanderlust’ sets got my eye right away. Whatever the occasion or season, you will find these reusable stencils to come in very handy for your craft piece.

Peel and Stick Stencils

Let’s start simple. I really don’t know where to start at this point so I’m going to try something that looks and feels pretty straight forward. Armed with the Mod Podge Extreme Glitter (a teenage girls dream come true) and one of the Flat nylon brushes, I’m going to transform an ordinary bottle glass vase in an extraordinary flower vase.

With the bottle scored, separated and sanded, it is now ready to begin the painting process. It might be wrong to call Mod Podge a paint but it always goes on looking like a primer so I’ve always called it that. A nice even coat over the whole bottle will not only preserve the label but also give the whole vase the glitter appearance.

Click on our how to video below:

The end result. I was very pleased with the final project. The additional step of applying the sealer and allowing it to dry properly was minimal and it showed really well with with only one coat. Adding another layer would have been easy to do but I was after a more subtle look. Not too glittery but enough to give the shimmery appearance. Mission accomplished!

This was just the beginning. There are more paints, more brushes, and I haven’t even gotten to the stencils yet! Let’s call this what it is; me dipping my toe in bottle glass painting. I will post more projects as they are completed.

Plaid Folkart

I would like to thank Shauna from Plaid Enterprises for all her help and generosity. For more information about the company and products they sell visit them on;

Facebook – Inspired by Plaid

Instagram – Plaid Crafts

YouTube – Plaid Crafts

If you’re feeling inspired then please share in the comments below. Do you have a project in mind? Drop us a line!

Amazon Handmade Bottle Lamp Roundup

Amazon Handmade Roundup

Amazon has a huge selection of products but did you also know that they have a section just for crafters?

The Amazon ‘Handmade’ section has an ever growing collection of hand crafted items that are being sold directly from the crafters themselves. Below we have put together just a few of the many bottles that we found on the site.

Western Cowboy Boot Bottle/Table Lamp with LED Lights by Bottles Be Glowing

Bottles Be Glowing

Bottle Lamp by Lite Not Wine

Lite Not wine

Single Malt Scotch Bottle Liquid LED Desk Lamps by Bourbon and Boots

Bourbon and Boots

Southwest/Cowboy/Native American Dream Catcher style table lamp by CR Wine Bottles

CR Wine Bottles

Vintage Birds Wine Bottle Lamp

Wine Lady Co

We always like to remind everyone that when you purchase a handmade product, you are purchasing something that was made uniquely styled and fashioned. Never to be replicated. For more on that, check out 10 reasons why handmade is hands down the best by Clare.

Instagram BLCproject Update

It’s been over a year already since we started the #BLCproject on Instagram.

I’m happy to report that it has continued to grow! There are a lot of bottle art pictures to share and to date the tag has garnered 350 posts. From bottle lamps to bottles with lights, there is something for everyone on the page. Some of the recent additions have been the hand painted bottles. The amount of detail that goes into these designs is truly amazing and definitely worth checking out.

Instagram BLCproject

The Instagram Bottle Lamp Community is growing! It’s also exciting to announce that the Instagram page for the Bottle-Lamp site has just reached 1,000 followers. If you want to promote your own art work then just tag your picture to feature it. The social media aspect as always been made dynamic by our fellow contributors.

Whether your business is already on Instagram, or you’re completely new to the app, be sure to connect with us so that we can share your favorite projects and art pieces with an ever growing community!


Do you have a DIY project you would like to show off?

Submit your entry – include your picture(s), your name and a description and or any tips you would like to share with us and our readers. If you have a blog you can also include the web address and we will link back to you.