After I put my fabric poinsettias into the empty wine bottles yesterday, I knew that my next project was going to be to paint the wine bottles to make them look a little more festive!
There are a lot of ways to paint wine bottles for the holidays. Here are a few ideas that I had for my empty wine bottles:
1. Use glass paint to make your wine bottle into a Santa Clause or Snow Man.
2. Use 4 empty bottles and paint the letters N-O-E-L onto them, and then fill them with some battery operated lights.
3. Modge podge a photograph onto a wine bottle as a gift for a friend or relative.
4. Use glass paint to paint the wine bottles to look like a candy cane.
I ended up not using any of these ideas for my wine bottle vases because I didn't want to take away from the flowers. So, instead I painted candy canes and peppermints onto my bottles with red, white and green glass paints.
First, I painted four candy canes, starting with the white as my base. As you can see the paint is a little streaky, so I let the paint dry for a few hours before applying another coat of white paint. Then I scattered the peppermints between the candy canes, again using the white paint.
Next, I started with the candy canes, painting red stripes over the white candy cane shapes.
Finally, I used green swirls for the peppermints.
Now I have a cute little vase for my poinsettias.
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