Recycled Liquor Bottle Vase

Just a reminder for those attending the CHA Supershow, don’t forget to stop by the Westcott booth #612 on Friday, July 30 to see the competition for America’s Next Top Crafter! I will be one of the judges and think this will just be so much fun. I can’t wait to see what the contestants have up their crafty sleeves! Check out Marisa Pawelko’s blog for more details. Also just to correct something I said the other day… Marisa did not win this contest- she won the CHA Indie Craft Contest. She is the host of ANTC and also came up with the concept and trademarked it. ANTC debuted for the first time at the first consumer show in Orlando last summer.

More designer news… my friend Kathy Peterson has come out with a new line of outdoor furniture and is holding a blog hop. Every week a different designer works with one of her Adirondack chairs and a different chair is shown! Pat Sloan did the first one and it is beautiful. Congrats, Kathy!

This was a bottle of expensive liquor that was too pretty to throw away when it was all gone. I decided to give it the paint drizzle treatment. About 10 years ago, I went though a phase of making clear Christmas ornaments like this. All you do is take different color acrylic paints and drip it down the lip of the bottle, ornament or whatever glass container you’d like. The colors run into each other and make cool swirls and all kinds of pretty effects. Here I used pastel colors, but I usually like to add in a metallic color too. The hardest part is letting it dry. Check to make sure that all areas of the glass are covered. If you see open areas, tilt the vessel until paint fills it in. I used Plaid’s Folk Art paint for this project because it gives good coverage.