Thinking of giving your friend a birthday alcohol and don’t know how to decorate the bottle? There are many ways to do this. You can stick tapes, lace and metal fittings on the glass. If you can draw, you can paint glass with acrylic. For tips and ideas for creating masterpieces from bottles, see below.
Scarves and caps
Do you know how to knit? Then you should not have a question about how to decorate the bottle. It will be very simple for you to do this. Tie a small scarf and a miniature hat. Wear a bottle of new clothes. This decor looks good on any alcoholic drink. Most often, people decorate alcohol for New Year with knitted hats and scarves. It is understandable, in the cold you want not only to wrap yourself in a blanket, but also to wrap everything that catches your eye.
A bottle tied with a scarf will look more original than a bottle tied with a ribbon. But of course, you decide how to decorate your gift.
Bottle chef
Are your friends good cooks? Or maybe they work as cooks? Then the choice of gift should be obvious. How to decorate a bottle? Sew a cook suit. And what should such vestments consist of? From an apron and a cap. To build a miniature apron will be very simple. It is enough to take a rectangle of fabric and sew four ribbons to it. Two on top and two on the sides. To decorate clothes, you can use all kinds of stripes and stickers. You can make a patch pocket and put in it some nice souvenir. For example, a few candies or a wooden spatula.
How to make a cap? You need to cut a circle from the fabric and collect it along the edge of the needle with a seam forward. Now tighten the edges, put the resulting cap on the bottle and fix the size in this position. To keep the cap in shape, you can place a piece of cardboard inside it.
Gentleman's bottle
Want to surprise a guy? Sew a suit on the bottle. For some reason, many people think that such a bottle outfit is relevant only for a wedding. Nothing like this. If your friend from time to time is going to play board games with friends or just sit in the men's company, he will definitely like such a present. How to decorate a bottle? It is necessary to sew a vest and tie. If you wish, you can still make a shirt. But this is completely optional. A small collar is enough. If you don’t know how to tie a tie, you can make a bow tie. If you don’t attach the suit to the bottle, then the clothes can be reused.
Gift for February 23
Not sure how to decorate the bottle on February 23? Use tapes. With their help, you can create absolutely any costume. If your man served in the army, then you should create the robe of the division or the kind of troops to which a friend is directly related. If the guy did not serve in the army, then you can fill out a bottle in any style, it will not be so important. Consider one of the options. How to decorate a bottle with your own hands in the same way as shown in the sample? Take thin green, white and black ribbons. First you need to decorate the neck. We make a semblance of a shirt and tie a tie. Now close the neck of the bottle with green loops. Glue the decor to the glass with a hot gun. When the neck is completely closed, you can go down. With an overlap, we wind the tape on the body of the bottle, from time to time without forgetting to fix it. Last of all, shoulder straps should be created.
A pineapple
One of the aesthetic ways to decorate a bottle is to create a pineapple from it. This decor is universal. The gift will appeal to both the girl and the guy. How to decorate a bottle with your own hands? You will need to find candies in a gold package, a plaster and green thick paper. It is advisable to choose textured green sheets with small vertical veins. The Decorate Bottles workshop will help you get the job done. The first step is to seal the bottle with tape or paper. This is necessary so that the candies do not slip on the smooth surface of the glass. After this step, you can stick the decor. We fix candies on a bottle row by row until you reach the neck. It should stop here. Now you need to cut thin long leaves from green paper and seal the top of the bottle with them. To prevent the pineapple from being damaged during transportation, it can be packaged in transparent wrapping paper.
Mosaic
Want to create a work of art from a bottle? Then you can safely decorate it with a mosaic. This decoration method is quite laborious, but the game will be worth the candle. Such a bottle, after you drink the contents from it, can be turned into a vase or a jug. Making the craft will be difficult, but with due diligence, everything should work out for you. You need to start by tiling tiles or glass into small pieces. Now we cover the container with soil and one by one we immerse pieces of tile in it. Not an abstraction, but some kind of drawing will look interesting. It should be invented in advance, since it will be difficult to invent an image in the process of work. After the whole bottle is decorated, you can grout the seams or use art pastels for this.
Eggshell
If you like the mosaic effect, but it seems too difficult to beat the tiles, you can decorate the bottle in an easier way. Paste over her eggshell. How to decorate a bottle of cognac in this way? You need to prepare all the necessary materials. It is better to take shells from raw eggs. It must be washed and dried, and then chopped into small pieces. Now you should degrease the bottle and prime it. Then we tint the vessel in the selected color. If you are preparing a gift for a man, give preference to a dark color scheme. Now we glue the bottle with eggshell and arm ourselves with a sponge. The shell should be tinted in a contrasting color so that it stands out well on the substrate. Although no one bothers you to experiment. You can, for example, cover the bottle with brown acrylic, and glue a dark green mosaic on top.
Discs as a decor
Do you throw away anything in the hope that it will someday come in handy? Then it's time to give the discs a second chance. Today, people store all the necessary information on flash drives or on remote servers. Disks are out of use. But these beautiful brilliant circles can be given a second life. They are great for bottle decor. You need to cut the disk into small pieces. They can be either arbitrary shape or strictly geometric. Now it is necessary to apply a primer to the bottle and, according to the mosaic principle, drown shiny particles in a viscous substance. You can lay out a picture or close the entire space of the vessel. Choose a design and act.
Painting
This is one of the time-consuming, but also the most beautiful ways of decoration. To create such beauty, you must have artistic skills. After all, you have to draw twice: the first time on paper, and the second time on glass. How to get started? From creating a sketch. You need to come up with a picture, and do it taking into account the fact that the image will not be viewed from all sides equally well. Therefore, it is advisable to choose a floral motif. Now you should remove the patterns from the bottle and transfer the selected pattern to them. Now you need to tint the bottle and only then it will be possible to put the image “on the clean”. When all these operations are done, you should arm yourself with a brush and start creating. This is the easiest and most enjoyable part of the job, paint the outline, creating thickenings somewhere, and easing the pressure somewhere to a minimum.
Decorative grape
How do people decorate bottles? You can see a photo of one of the options above. Looking at the picture, one can understand that decoration does not require special skills, but a well-developed fantasy. A person with any level of preparation can create a bottle similar to the one attached above. The first step is to degrease and tint the vessel. Now at the very neck you need to stick a branch. It should somehow resemble a slingshot, that is, have a branching. And now under the branch you need to glue the pebbles. If you don’t have anything like this, you can use large beads or buttons. When the shape of the bunch is laid out, you can start making leaves. They should be cut from coarse canvas. Tint blanks with green pastel. It remains to glue the leaves to the base of the branch and decorate the neck of the bottle with a coarse thread. The transparent bead can be glued to the bottom of the neck.
New Year's decor
Such a gift will be appreciated by any girl. Despite the fact that the bottle is decorated with coarse thread, the overall impression of the gift will be light and romantic. How to decorate a bottle of champagne? First degrease the glass. Now we fasten the end of the thread to the neck with a glue gun and start wrapping the bottle. From time to time you need to attach the rope to the glass with a drop of silicone. When the bottle is fully wound, you need to decorate its lower part with lace. And now you need to make a beautiful accent. It will be something like a boutonniere consisting of a cone, a spruce branch, a ball, a bell and a thread. You can use everything that is at hand to create such a decorative element. Buttons, nuts and paper decor will do.
Wedding bottle
Want to decorate champagne so that it looks simple and tasteful? Then you should pay attention to this option. Usually champagne on a wedding table is decorated with lace and ribbons, and in this design two-color acrylic and artificial flowers will be used. If desired, you can replace the flowers with real ones. Remove all labels from the bottle, then degrease the glass and tint it with white. Now with a sponge you need to apply gold paint. We do this with neat movements to paint over only the center and not touch the edges. When the paint dries, you can begin to glue the decor. According to a pre-designed picture, you need to arrange flowers, beads and drops of paint. You can also use rhinestones and beads.
Bride and groom
One of the most popular wedding champagne designs is to recreate newlywed outfits. How to decorate wedding bottles in a similar way? To do this, you will need ribbons of different sizes and colors. First, we’ll make a suit for the groom. Starting from the neck, we decorate the bottle with ribbon loops. We first lay two white ones, and close the rest of the space with black. Closer to the base of the bottle you should switch to another way of attaching the tapes. They just need to wind the vessel in a spiral. Be sure to attach the tape to the glass with glue. Beads that will act as buttons and a bow tie will help to complete the image.
The bride’s dress for champagne is made by analogy with a men's suit. First, the top of the bottle closes with loops. But the lower part will be decorated with wide ribbons. We collect one edge with the needle seam forward and tighten the workpiece. We tie the bottom of the bottle with the resulting assembly and fasten the tape in this position. Similarly, you need to create three tiers of skirts. After the dress is ready, you can decorate it with beads and bows. You can copy the color scheme from your own outfit or just choose a nice combination of colors.
Simple decor
If you do not have time, and you can have a desire to decorate a bottle of champagne with your own hands, you can easily find a way out. Use glue and sparkles. First you need to tear the labels from the bottle. This will be easy to do if you pre-soak the bottle in water. Now you need to degrease the vessel. The next step is toning. We give the bottle any color, it is desirable that it matches the tone with sparkles. When the paint dries, apply a thin layer of glue to the bottom of the bottle. Sprinkle the vessel with sparkles and shake it a little so that the layer does not turn out too thick. You will no longer be wondering how to decorate the bottle on February 23rd. After all, sparkles can decorate any alcoholic drink for any holiday. You can experiment. For example, use sparkles of different colors or lay out a pattern from them. If you try hard, you can even lay out a portrait of the person to whom you present an unusual gift.