DIY: Glass Bottle Pumpkins

I found this wonderful article about DIY Halloween makeover ideas for decorating or a party.  The article has pictures and links to the sites you can find the directions and tips for the projects themselves.  The idea above I fell in love with!  It’s from sadieseasongoods.com and I think it’s a creative way to repurpose old liquor bottles or just unusually shaped bottled into pumpkins!

She started with liquor bottles (her county no longer recycles glass bottles.)

She sprayed them with white primer paints.  (She recommends using acrylics for the pumpkins and they can be difficult to work with unless the glass in primed.)

She used several different shades of paints (in the directions, she says she also used a green that isn’t pictured).

“I had this idea that I could slightly swirl two or three colors in order to get striations of color, like on real gourds. 

Note that I said swirl, not mix, the various paint colors. It’s an important distinction to make here!

First, I squeezed out dollops of paint in various colors so that the edges touched. Then, I used toothpicks to pull the paint into each other, like a spiderweb effect. Finally, I carefully dipped my paint brush into the swirl and brushed it on the glass bottles in long, even strokes.”

In case the jute doesn’t completely cover the stems, she painted those a dark green/brown.

“To finish up my fall pumpkin decor, I wound the jute twine around the dark green neck using my hot glue gunto hold the twine in place.

Next, I scavenged some leaves from a floral stem that had “veiny” leaves, like those found on pumpkin and gourd vines.  I hot glued them in place and continued to wrap the necks with twine.”

The finished jar is AWESOME!

I have to try some of these!!

SOURCE: upcyclethisdiythat.com and sadieseasongoods.com