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"Beaded Bottle Craft"
Need a chic and creative Budget Decor project...recycle your bottles and transform them into decorative gems. These simply beautiful beaded, tinted glass bottle creations can add a little color and pizzazz to any special corner or mantel.
Miy Project creation and Photo by: Miy Project: Beaded Bottle Craft "Bejeweled Bottles" Materials & Tools:
MIY INSTRUCTIONS:This is a design-as-you-go project. Select beads and colored wires to coordinate with your bottles. Depending on the shape of the bottle, try to decorate a focal point. For each bottle creation once assorted beads are threaded to the wires, make a closing loop with needle-nose pliers at the ends of the wires to secure the beads. For a bubble-neck bottle, cut a yard of colored wire with wire cutters. Make a small hook shape at one end; hold the hook below the bubble, wrap the wire around the neck once and insert the wire in the hook and continue to wrap the wire around the neck several times. Secure the other end of the wire by tucking the end under the previous row, creating a hook closure. Accessorize bottle necks with contrasting wire color and beads. Secure a wire at the neck, then thread assorted beads at different intervals while wrapping the wire around the neck of the bottle. To fasten the end, tuck it under the previous row. Loosely wrapped wire makes for an interesting effect with a bracelet-type accent placed around the collar. Cut a piece of wire about 6 inches long. Insert a large bead then several smaller beads, then finish with another large bead and finish with a loop. Place the beaded wire length around the collar then twist the wires to connect them together into place. To add a curled wire accent, curl the wire with a pencil tip, slide in assorted beads and secure each end with a loop. To make a butterfly, cut a 2 inch piece of wire, make a loop at one end then insert 3 beads (a small square one, a pony bead and a longer bead to make the body). With a wire length of 8 inches, make four loops using your fingers, twist them together at the center to hold them in place. Attach the wings to the body, and the body to the bottle with a wire piece. To make corkscrew wire shapes, wrap a wire length around a skewer, nail, chopstick, knitting needle or similar object. Add a combination of corkscrew shapes in various colors with assorted beads to create another type of free-form bottle collar décor. Bend the corkscrew at the top to hook it onto a wire that has been randomly looped, beaded and placed around the collar.
Miy Tips:•You can also use double-faced tape or craft glue to secure wire to bottles. Nail clippers can also be used to cut wires. You can add color tint to clear glass bottles by painting them with diluted glass paint or by spraying them with Krylon's Glass Magic Spray in the stained-glass finish. 
Miy Variations: •For extra décor dazzle, variations for this project are endless. Why not make a style statement and start a bottle collection in various hues for the changing seasons. Aside from bottles, consider vases, pillar candles, candle holders, and jars of all types for other fun variations of the above project. •With spring around the corner think of outdoor projects like decorative garden items: rims of planters, watering cans, or iron accents.
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