After the holidays, the feasts often remain a large number of different packages, including plastic, glass bottles. They are thrown out, pass at the reception points of recycling, and creative people, by some manipulations, turn into an original gift, the subject of interior design.
Decoupage or decor of a bottle with pantyhose - baking the base of the bottle of pieces of pantyhose, followed by fixing with varnishes, paints. Empty, beautifully decorated bottles fit original in the design of the room, "full", not yet drunk as a gift "to the table". Learn more about what beauty can be made from bottles and categorous stockings yourself, in the text of this article.
About decoupage tights
The decoupage word literally denotes "cutting". In modern times there are many of its directions using almost any materials - leather, napkins, fabrics, paper, wooden and plastic beads. All this is glued to the base - a variety of objects, surfaces.
Decoupage bottles using tights will not cause special difficulties even in children. The glass container is beautifully winding with a stocking, covered on top of paint, varnish from the cylinder, all sorts of beads, ribbons are glued up.
Bottle design styles:
- vintage;
- Rustic;
- Provence;
- PAYP-ART;
- high tech;
- terra;
- Country;
- Shebbi-Chic;
- glamor.
Options for registration
The most common options for gift and interior bottles:
- New Year's;
- Wedding - the bride and groom;
- Kit "Tulips";
- to "March 8", "February 23";
- For anniversaries (with memorable dates), etc.
The basis for the decoupage is empty or full bottles, bottles, bottles, as well as vases, decanters, glass jars. Plastic containers are used less often, since it is inconvenient to glue on them, and they themselves are not durable.
An interesting gift for the wedding will be two bottles of champagne, decorated in the form of a bride and groom, and to choose "Narray of the Bride" from tights, there is a large space for creativity. The composition of the lady in a hat and a cavalier in a suit is a souvenir in the same series.
Vintage bottles with glued pictures on them perfectly fit into Provence interior. The glass container decorated with robes, rolled out of pantyhose, will suit the romantic design of the room. If to attach unbuttoned zip to the bottle, and in its incision - coins, then with due color it will suit the style of Hai-tech, industrial, loft, etc.
Necessary materials and tools
For work you will need:
- bottle;
- Degreaser is a liquid for removing varnish, acetone, alcohol;
- Pantyhose is best big;
- scissors;
- cotton discs, sponge;
- PVA glue or "moment";
- lacquer for decoupage;
- Tassels - thick and thin;
- Acrylic paints - ordinary and in the cans;
- napkins with pictures for decoupage;
- Accessories - beads, lids, sequins, shells, peas or beans.
It is better to use a glass container, a simple, uncomplicated form - it is much easier to work with it.
Decorating bottles
The decoupling decor is chosen by any - from any "rubbish", to a preponderant, voluminous, expensive. The last option is for secured lovers and specialists. The containers reappeted with different ways well in the interior, the process is extremely fascinated, sometimes quite laborious, and the result is always unpredictable. The folds resulting from Capron can be arbitrary shape, in a particular embodiment, portraying wonderful flowers, folding clothes, fantasy drapets.
Before starting decoration from a glass container, remove all labels by soaking in water for several hours, after which it is to degrease its surface with alcohol, acetone.
Lady in a hat
The most popular drink from the bottle and the "tights" - the lady in the hat.
To perform work, you will need:
- Bottle - preferably with a screw cap;
- PVA glue;
- Glue "Titan" or thermopystole with glue;
- scissors;
- Metal cover from bank;
- any category tights;
- large beads or whole peas;
- Paints in cylinders.
How it's done:
- From pantyhotes cut off the "leg", it is well impregnated with PVA glue;
- After it, you need to wear from the bottom on the bottle - to the "Holders", beautifully releasing the folds;
- Hat serves cover for ordering;
- a piece of the second stocking, pre-impregnated with glue, is put on the lid;
- Ends of stockhing twisted in the form of "Gulki" on the top of a new hat;
- The edges of the lid need to be beautifully bend, the bottle and the hat should be dried a day or two;
- Everything that remains from tights is cut into strips, which "collected" on the thread to receive assemblies;
- from the assemblies form "roses", which are also impregnated with PVA glue;
- When all the details were dried, the "roses" are glued on the hat, the "dress" of bottles with the help of a thermopystole;
- Morsens are made of earrings, beads;
- To the bottom of the hat gluits a screwing bottle cover;
- The design is assembled, covered with two layers of paint;
- It turned out a chic bottle-lady.
Vintage Decoupage
Vintage decoration is the design of the subject in such a way that it seemed to be "old". When using this technique, the bottle decorate with special pictures, cute photos "under ancient" and others.
To perform the decor in this technique you will need:
- Decamental napkins with any images;
- acrylic soil, paints;
- foam sponge;
- Glass container itself;
- alcohol or varnish removal liquid;
- Factor contour;
- PVA glue.
How to do:
- The surface of the bottle is mandatory degreased so that the paint keeps well;
- Next, with the help of a sponge, the primer is applied when it dries - a layer of white paint;
- The napkin is preferable to such a width so that it can be completely wrapped around the bottle;
- The top edge of the napkin neatly breaks down, it should turn out slightly not even - it will be more beautiful;
- After that, it is necessary to separate that layer of the napkin, on which the picture, glue it on the glass floor - the drawing is pressed to the still not as the paint, PVA glue is applied on top;
- When everything is dry, the contours of the drawing are scored with a sponge, the design is covered with varnish and is ready!
Combined bottles design
An even more interesting option is to design with a combination of tights and napkins for decoupage. In this case, the picture from the napkin "translates" to the partially primed, scratched bottle, the rest of the stocking is put on the rest. An image from the napkin as it would be "looks out" from the window. Pictures can be used somewhat - especially convenient to do it on large, flat bottles. Then all the places are ground, where it is planned to place images, tights are pasted around - for the design of large bottles you will need two or three more stockings. The design is covered with paints, varnishes. During their application, the main thing is not to emoll the picture itself.
Additional decor
As an additional decor, you use anything - homemade rose flowers, beads, cereals, rhinestones, coins and much more. For example, a bottle-piggy bank is made using tights, short iron zipper, any coins. Also need glue - PVA and Titan, scissors. Pantyhose is better to take the biggest - so the folds will come out very much, they will be more interesting. One stocking is cut off, impregnated with PVA glue, put on with a bottle, successed. In the resulting folds, with the help of "Titan", unbuttoned lightning neatly passes. The design is covered with several layers of different paints from the cans, after the lightning section is pasted coins. If instead of coins at the same place, stick the pebbles pre-painted with bright lacquers for nails, beads, brilliant rhinestones, then a piggy bank with "precious stones" will be. Roses can fifty, stick on a bottle, previously wrapped by a cap, in any order - their location on the spiral looks beautifully, especially on "thick" tanks.
Conclusion
Decoupage is an interesting, exciting occupation. Craft made in this way of crafts from bottles, tights, other decorative materials, are made easily, and then a long time is pleasing to the eye. Homemade things are now very popular, each of them is unique and keeps a part of the soul of someone who did it. With the help of simple items and fantasies, a real masterpiece, which can be decorated with both the interior of the room and any festive table.