Before we get to the potion jars..... can I ask you to go vote for my Boston Terrier, Chloe? She's is a costume contest this week and needs votes to win:
She's a Boston Red Sox doggy. Her shirt says, "Big Puppy 34"..... you know, Big Papi? Get it?
Well, I showed you how to make the flowers yesterday.... seems only fair I show you how I made the jars!! Honestly I never could have made the jars without the incredible help of that awesome blog
The Graphics Fairy.
First, I found some cool jars with enough space to put a label on them. One was from a local store, the other was from me having a couple glasses of wine. To get the old labels off the wine bottle I did a little trick:
~I filled up the bottle with the hottest water I could get (not boiling, of course) and then I put it in a tub of water that was the same temperature. Then, I added baking soda to the water. I waited 60 minutes and by that time the labels were much easier to come off. Just a little tiny elbow grease and voila!
I found an image of a
Bat on the Graphics Fairy and I took it and edited it to make it look older and more Halloweeny. Click on the picture and feel free to save and print (just don't forget to credit me and the Graphics Fairy if you use either photo):
Then, I found an image of an
Iguana at the Graphics Fairy and Halloweened it again:
Not bad!
I printed out the photos on some cardstock and then mod podged them onto the bottles. I only used the glue where the pictures went.....wherever extra was showing I just scraped it off with my fingernail, once it was dry.
I filled up the bottles with brown and bright green liquid; brown paint with water for the bat, green with water for the iguana and added my plastic spoon flowers with some raffia as some decor for the bottles. I had one bottle that couldn't fit a label but looked like it had Halloween flair, so I put some black paint with water in that one:
I love them!!
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