Pick Your Poison

A couple of weeks ago we had our

Pick Your Poison

bottle class and we had wayyyy to much fun!

Since then, we've got lots of questions on how to create

these concoctions.....

First we had to find the lables...

we found some great free ones on the web

Marilyn from Seeing THings Art Apothecarium
 has some really great labels
 and she gladly said we could use them!

We printed them off on some parchment paper

and then we burnt the edges around the labels

(may we suggest doing this outside....be safe!!)

After burning the labels we used Mod Podge to secure the label to the glass....

Then the fun began...filling those bottles with "Toad Bladders" and "Moon Dust" and such!

Bits and pieces of twine went on the open bottles

Some bottles we covered with burlap, and Mod Podged it down

Then we would add embellishments...

Tea Stained cheese cloth, twine, vintage buttons, old washers...

we used our imaginations!

Another fun detail was the blood red wax...

We got the plate warmer out and melted the red wax in a heat safe dish

After adding the burlap and cheese cloth we just dipped that top 

right into the wax several times.

Awesome!!

(singing that by the way!)

Well, we couldn't let that bottle have all of the fun,

so we just used that melted wax on some of the other bottles...

a touch here and there!

Some bottles even got the wax right in them 

for an eerie look!

Ta-Da!!

See what kind of fun 

 Poison Bottles

you can make..
.it's super fun & they look fantastic!

Today we are joining the friendly sisters over at
Ivy & Elephants for

What's it Wednesday

Stop out and see what Patti & Paula are up to this week...

You'll have a frightfully good time :)