Glass and plastic bottles have a wide variety of shapes and sizes, which makes them an excellent material for making vases. Today Dekorin invites you to learn how to make vases of bottles with your own hands using the improvised means. You are waiting for 29 photos with step by step instructions!

Vase from a plastic bottle with your own hands

Plastic bottles are very flexible. They are easy to cut with scissors or a clerical knife, so that a vase from a plastic bottle can have absolutely any shape. Here are just a few ways how you can do it yourself:

• Cut beautiful patterns on the surface;
• Wrap strips of fabric, ribbons, cords;
• Paint with aerosol or ordinary paint;
• Decorate with branches, coffee beans and other natural and materials.

Ideas and step-by-step instructions for this you will find on the photo below:

Crafts on the table: plastic vases from bottles

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Floor Vase with his own hands made of plastic bottles

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How to make a vase from a glass bottle

The ways of decorating glass bottles from wine, beer and other drinks are no less diverse. Despite the fact that their shape is much more difficult to change (maximum is to cut the neck), the vases made of glass bottles made by oneself are much more elegant and interesting. Vases made of high and narrow glass bottles are often used by "sets", placing in each of them 1-3 flowers.

At the same time homemade vases from cognac etc. low bottles can be decorated with beads, shells and act as an independent decorative element.

Unlike plastic containers, a vase from a glass bottle is usually painted from the inside. The paint is simply poured into bottles, where it spreads freely over the walls. Thanks to this, the vases not only receive a new color, but also preserve the glossy gloss of the glass.

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An exception is the process of painting with an aerosol. It allows you to evenly apply the paint on the surface of the glass, without the formation of smears. Use this option if you want to make matte vases of glass bottles with your own hands or give them the effect of an ombre.

Using stencils or hand painting skills, you can give a vase from a bottle a beautiful pattern.

In addition to painting, you can also:

1. Wind a glass bottle with a thick thread or twine;
2. Decorate it with ribbons, lace or cloth;
3. Apply decoupage.

In the following photos you will see examples of such works.

Also read: How to decorate bottles with thread and twine.

How to make a vase from a bottle and pieces of fabric: examples with knitwear, lace and felt (the latter can be replaced with felt).

On the last 3 photos in this article - vases from bottles, made with decoupage. As we already wrote in our article Restoration of Soviet furniture with their own hands, before gluing to the surface of the paper for decoupage is recommended to thin the nesting or soak in water.

Good luck in your work!