And So the Crafting Continues...

Part Two Wine Bottles with Fairy Lights
Gift bags offered limitless possibilities with paper choices, ribbon handles, tags and a variety of embellishments. Decorating wine bottles also inspires creativity with a variety of choices. All you need is imagination and some help from Pinterest for ideas. It did help that Bernie and Linda seem to have an endless supply of materials. 
What I liked about this project is it encourages you to repurpose and make use of materials you can find around your house. 
Tips for cleaning wine bottles

• Let bottle soak in dawn dishwashing soap for 1 hour. 
• Use a razor blade to peel off labels.
• Use Goo Gone Spray to remove residue.

• Dry inside of bottle using long wooden handle part of the spoon wrapped in a paper towel. 

I found these LED lights on Amazon that come wrapped on a thin copper wire attached to a cork with a switch. Each wrapped light takes three batteries.What impressed me was 11 out of 12 worked and the box came with extra batteries.  

This wine bottle had an embellishment glued on so no decoupage application was used. The neck of the bottle was wrapped with strips of  glitter with adhesive backing. 

A different technique was used to decorate this bottle. Bernie's directions are as follows: 
The purple fabric was leftover from a costume. It was just sheer fabric with stars and sparkles on it. I then just cut that fabric into small squares, triangles and rectangles. I decoupaged the purple fabric pieces on to half of the wine bottle with a small brush and Mod Podge, overlapping the pieces as I went along. I let the bottle dry in the sun for an hour or more so I could hold on to the dry half and decoupage the other half of the bottle. When it was all covered I let it dry overnight as it takes a awhile for it to get completely dry. I then added a sheet of Halloween stickers randomly on the purple bottle and added the orange lights inside. 

The following link is to a DIY tutorial: how to make napkin cards a project from 2013. We used the same procedure taking a napkin, separating the plys,  ironing the napkin to freezer paper, cutting out design and decoupaging napkin to the bottle. 
https://sockfairies.blogspot.com/2013/08/diy-tutorial-on-napkin-notecards-craft.html

Once the napkin was decoupaged to the bottle I decoupaged over the entire design. Glitter glue was added around the edges. The neck was wrapped with strips of glitter with adhesive backing.  The roll of glitter tape just says Trim Border. It's in the bins just before the checkouts at Michael’s for $1.50 each with colors  red, green, gold, silver, purple.

Have you seen these glass jars of yogurt in the store?  There are a multitude of uses for these jars for serious crafters. We found them the perfect size to make a decorative votive light container. 

A 1 ply napkin was decoupaged on to the glass jar. 

A lake setting-the perfect backdrop for good friends sharing laughs and learning some new ideas.

A GOOGLE search on how to decoupage wine bottles using Mod Podge may inspire you to try a new project.