Flip-top bottle with a wire ﬂamingo

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Flip-top bottle with a wire ﬂamingo

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60 min

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Instructions in 8 steps The rotary table for painting will be helpful to you for creating accurately a colour gradient on the glass bottle. And this is how it works:

Step 1

Clean the bottle before painting with detergent and water.

Step 2

Mask the lower range for about 2.5 cm with masking tape. Preferably, remove the flip-top cap.

Step 3

To achieve a nice colour gradient of Chalky paint for glass a turntable would be helpful. Thereby, put the bottle as closely as possible to the center and hold the brush soaked with paint onto bottle and rotate evenly the disc.

Step 4

The colour gradient in the central area is gonna be achieved with the salmon pink and white paints, leaving the two colours to merge into one another.

Step 5

Turn the flamingo hands-free according to the template.

A style sheet can be found in the PDF version of the craft idea. Just download it.

Step 6

Hang the flamingo on a turquoise cord by using a self-bent ring.

Step 7

After four days drying time, the colour is so hardened that you can fix it in the oven according to the instructions of the label.

Step 8

The bottle is afterwards dishwasher safe.

Craft Idea Flip-top bottle with a wire ﬂamingo