Paint A Beautiful Design On A Bottle - A Handmade Mother's Day Gift

If you are on a budget, or just prefer to be crafty, then making a crafty present for Mother's Day might be right up your alley. If your mother adores flowers then she might like a glass bottle painted so that it can be used as a vase. The environmental plus to this craft is that you can even reduce the waste of throwing a glass bottle into a landfill by turning it into a beautiful vase. This elegantly shaped green glass water bottle could simply not be thrown away, or even recycled, so I decided to re-purposed this glass bottle as a vase. First, I soaked the label off in water, and then I used a sponge to scrub off the remaining bits of glue and label that refused to budge after its warm bath. I dried off the vase and then used acrylic paint to create a floral design, which is reminiscent of stained glass. I painted mod podge over the glass bottle to seal in the painting, and to give the vase a shiny and lustrous appearance. Painting a glass bottle and turning it into a vase is an easy gift to make for Mother's Day, or any other special occasion.

Make sure to clean the glass bottle before you start painting it.

I used many supplies I had on hand as templates for painting. A used coffee cup top became the palette for the blue paint.

The blue flowers that I painted on the bottle looked beautiful in the lamp light.

The vase is beginning to take shape as I paint on the yellow flowers.

The orange centers of the yellow flowers is quite cheery, and a nice contrast to the blue flowers.

Here I started adding the green leafs and stems to the flowers.

This is such a free form craft, and you can paint the flowers however you like on your vase.

The flowers towards the top are a bit smaller, and I painted larger flowers towards the bottom of the glass bottle.

The large yellow flower with the orange center was my favorite.

I allowed the painted bottle to dry overnight.

Check out my hub where I illustrate how you can paint a picture for your mom on Mother's Day.