Fun with Wine Bottles: Sunflower Edition!

AFTER

Before

Two of my favorite things coming together: Painting and Wine

Materials: Empty Wine Bottle, Acrylic Paint, Fake Oversized Sunflowers (or any flower of your choosing), sealer (gloss or matte)

Step 1: Soak wine bottle with the cap off in warm water for about 2 minutes, take out of water and (using scissors, a knife, letter opener, etc) scrap off any labels and goo. 

Step 2: Take your flowers and remove any leaves or branches, leave only the flower heads. Make sure your flowers fit in the wine bottle before proceeding. 

Step 3: Time to paint! With the flowers out, start with the center of the flower first. To give the bottle a cool abstract feel, I off set the center of the flower to the right as pictured above. Then, I took various shades of yellow and gold and brushed them all the way around the bottle. I let the golds and yellows fade toward the top to let the green of the bottle bleed into the green of the flowers.

Step 4: I recommend sealing, for this project, I used mod pog, but any sealant will do. 

Step 5: Throw your flowers back in and youre good to go!

Happy Crafting! :)

-V