Friday, 7 January 2011

ALTERED BOTTLE .... DREAM





Having received more goodies from Moira at Happy Daze, I have used some of the goodies in creating this Altered Bottle - Dream. The glass bottle was a left over from the Xmas festivities, courtsey of DH. Firstly I used Gesso to cover the whole bottle, allow to dry naturally or in my case having no patience I used my heat gun. I then stamped my image "Milo & Raphael from Lost Coast Designs onto white tissue paper using Distress Ink (Faded Jeans) and then spritzed with Perfect Pearls Mist in Blue Smoke & Heirloom Gold. Adhere the stamped image to the centre of the bottle. I then roughly painted the bottle with blue acrylic paint (Americana-DesertTurquoise). Again using the heat gun to speed up the drying process. I then used my Melt Pot and randomnly covered the bottle in Beeswax. I repeated this process a few times until i was happy with the coverage. Once the wax was dry I then used Metallic Rub-On Paste (colour kit 3), I used the blue first of all, then applied the copper to highlight areas. I then covered the stamped image with Versamark Embossing ink, then sprinkled Utee (clear) over the image and blasted with the heat gun. I added a Vintage Sparkler Glass Button (Websters Pages) to the top of the bottle. I used Distress Inks in Pumice Stone & Stormy Sky to cover a blank white cardstock tag before stamping "Dream" from Stampers Anonymous using Distress Inks Faded Jeans. Adhere tag with an Ideaology Swivel Clasp onto decorative tassle. Adhere Ideaology Philosophy Tag to bottle. I also applied Gold Metallic Music Rub Ons to random areas of the bottle.
I am linking this Altered Bottle to Wednesday Stamper whose theme this week is "Dream Big" .
Edited to say: I have retaken pics in daylight hours.

16 comments:

~*~Patty S said...

Your Dream Bottle is brilliant Gillian....Love everything about it

Stamping on tissue is one of my favorite things to do :)

Happy New Year to you and yours!
oxo

Anjas-Artefaktotum said...

Your bottle is a very creative art work! love all details.
hugs Anja

Yvonne said...

WOWSERS, what a magnificent piece of art, Gillian!

Minxy said...

Absolutely stunning, i really must try altering a bottle one day

Anonymous said...

I just Love this altered bottle! It looks so cool. I have yet to try one but your post has inspired me to do it! Awesome.

Femmy said...

this dream bottle is fabulous Gillian!!

Anonymous said...

looks a dream too....thanks for the 'How to' info - might give it a go myself.

Ginger said...

I reckon this is the best altered bottle I have seen. I really love it.x

ScrappyDandyDoo said...

Oooo fabby bottle :D
Julie xx

Jeannette said...

Ooooh what a great botlle,is a suuper dreaam,i love the colors and all the details.

Hugs Jeannette

Anonymous said...

that's quite an altered bottle, love it!! is there a geenie in there? :)

Janny said...

What a gorgeous work again here to see ;o)

lena-dailyscrap said...

WOW! love that dream bottle! great idea!

Maggie Ann said...

Wow, what an amazing work of art! Wonderful....

Unknown said...

Wow what a great bottle. Looks so much fun and I bet it looks great anywhere. Fab.
Love and bugsxxx

Katie said...

Wow, you've posted a lot of great,new stuff!! This bottle is really cool-way to recycle, or upcycle I should say! :0)