Suz Humphreys: Upcycled Bottle Candle Holder a DT project for Andy Skinner's Creative Team

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I'm a complete craft addict! I have a small business called Surrey Crafts teaching craft workshops from my studio in Esher, Surrey and at venues around the country. I teach mixed media, decorative painting, card making and papercrafts, jewellery making and creative embroidery classes. If you'd like to find out more just leave a comment, or take a look at my other social media pages:
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Friday, 17 January 2020

Upcycled Bottle Candle Holder a DT project for Andy Skinner's Creative Team

Hi all
We had a few empty bottles after Christmas (!), I decided to make one of them into a jazzy candle holder. using some of Andy's products, some found objects, and a few bits from my stash for my first Creative Team DT post of 2020.

After washing it well, I covered the bottle with strips of the beautiful rice papers and some old book pages. I used watered down 'Quick Grab Glue' which worked beautifully. I applied some lava paste though the Crocodile Stencil, heat activated it (that worked really well on the rice paper),then added some lace and pearl trim around the bottle neck.

I made a little dangly thing using a found rusty paper clip, piece of wire and a washer (I pick up these little treasures when I'm out and about) and added some broken jewellery. I stamped the Gypsy Queen onto shrink plastic using Stazon, cut around the image and punched a hole before shrinking with my heat tool.