How I Made My Quick and Easy Little Spooky Collaged Bottle Decoration

I just love crafts that are quick and easy to make.  Especially little decorations that can be placed just about anywhere.

Several years ago one of the online classes I was taking was for making collaged glass bottles.  I loved that class and have been making different collaged bottles ever since then.

For years I have been wondering how well tissue paper would work for the main layer of the collage instead of using paper.  So, I decided to find out.

In adding craft supplies to my Linda Walsh Originals Zazzle shop last year I decided to add some of my Halloween designs to their tissue papers - including one of my jack-o-lantern designs.  Since purchasing the tissue paper I've wondered ever since how it would work on glass.

So, this year while I was creating several mixed media paper doll creations I decided to find out.  Here's how my experiment turned out and how I made it.

Supplies Needed:

1 small glass bottle with cork.

Jack-O-Lantern Tissue Paper 

Halloween Scrapbook Paper Images 

Halloween Graphic Image Stickers 

1 Tattered Cloth Strip - 12" long by 1" wide

Multiple Mixed Media Fibers - 20" long each

Mod Podge

Stabilo Pencil - Black

Tortillon's or Blending Stump

Brushes

Scissors

1) Take the cork out of the top of the bottle and set it aside. 

2) Take a sheet of tissue paper to use as the main background and cut it so you have enough to cover the whole bottle beneath the top of the rim under the lip and including the bottom. 

3) Brush mod podge on the entire surface of the glass bottle underneath the top of the rim under the lip and along the bottom of the bottle.

4) Press the tissue paper to the glass bottle making sure it adheres all over the sides of the bottle and along the bottom of the bottle.  Make sure it is not too bulky where the folds are.  If it is cut the bulk out until the tissue paper folds lie flat.

5) When satisfied with the tissue paper placement brush Mod Podge on the tissue paper you just glued to the bottle to seal it.

6) Let the bottle dry before adding any of the embellishments.

7) Decide which scrapbook paper and sticker image embellishments you want to use for collaging sections of the bottle on top of the tissue paper.

8) Cut out the scrapbook paper images you want and then add Mod Podge to the back of the scrapbook paper images and then place them on the bottle.

9) Cut around the outer white edges of the stickers so there is no white edging and then place them on the bottle where you want them.  If they will not stick properly to the curvature of the bottle add Mod Podge to the back of the sticker and then apply it to the bottle.

10) When you are satisfied with the placement of your stickers and scrapbook paper images brush Mod Podge on them to seal everything to the bottle.

11) Let the bottle dry completely.

12) Apply stabilo pencil shading along all the edges of your images to shade them.

13) Blend the stabilo pencil shading with a tortillon or blending stump so the edges look finished and are blended.

14) Wrap several of the mixed media fibers individually around the top rim of the bottle under the lip so it is covered and tie each tightly in a knot.  Trim the ends.

15) Tie the tattered fabric around the top of the rim under the lip and then in a bow on top of the mixed media fibers you placed there.

16) Knot the ends of the tattered fabric strip.

17) Place the cork stopper back in the bottle.

Ta da! You're done.

Easy peasy - right!

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