Embracing Imperfection - An Altered Bottle

 Hi, Lucy here, with my first project as Guest Designer for August. As I first crossed your path with the EP Altered Bottle challenge I thought, 'Stick with what you know, Lucy!', although today's offering is a very different style, with a Parisian theme and shades of blue. It started off as this empty glass bubble bath bottle:-

 
I used blue acrylic paint round the edges, then crackle, then white acrylic paint all over:-

I roughly drew around the bottle onto tissue paper to create two circles for each side of my bottle. I used different shades of StazOn to stamp layers of images from the sets Tiny Things and Paris Memoirs finishing off with the Frenchman from Paris Memoirs on one piece and the Eiffel Tower on the other in Black, as my focal images. I then applied them to the bottle using Gel Medium, and blended some Distress Ink in Chipped Sapphire and Shaded Lilac around the edges of the bottle to highlight its round shape and frame it.

I mixed blue acrylic paint with embossing paste and spread it through TCW Distressed Harlequin Stencil and highlighted the raised areas with some watered down Viva Ferro on a brush. I picked the Tim Holtz wordband 'Embrace Imperfection' and rubbed some white acrylic paint into the wording to highlight and attached it to a piece of chain to go round the neck of the bottle, in the style of an old port decanter.

I bid for some decanter stoppers on ebay and this beautiful blue one led my colour choices for this project, as I used it to replace the original plain one, as a finishing touch.