WITCH CRAFTS

WITCH CRAFTS

Friday, January 27, 2012

WITCH'S APOTHECARY

I STARTED WORKING ON A "FUN" PROJECT, JUST FOR ME (BUT, MIGHT TURN INTO A CLASS, LATER). I'M MAKING A WITCH'S APOTHECARY SHADOW BOX.

I FOUND THIS SHADOW/TREASURE BOX AT HOBBY LOBBY (ON SALE!). IT HAS A HINGED GLASS COVER ON IT.



SO, I TOOK THE GLASS LID OFF AND ADDED SOME WOOD MOLDING AROUND THE EDGES. PLUS, ADDED A LITTLE WOODEN ORNAMENT ON THE TOP EDGE, AND GLUED PLASTIC SKULL BEADS IN THE CORNERS.


I TEXTURED THE WHOLE THING WITH TISSUE PAPER, GAUZE, & MODELING PASTE (WITH TINY GLASS BEADS IN IT). I PAINTED IT WITH GREENS, BLUES & PURPLES, WITH BLACK STAIN OVER EVERYTHING.

I GLUED DIFFERENT "CREEPY" PAPERS TO THE BACK OF EACH BOX, WITH SOME VINTAGE MEDICAL IMAGES AS WELL. EVERYTHING GOT AGED WITH "DISTRESS" INKS AND STAMPINGS.


NOW, I'M COLLECTING THINGS TO PUT INSIDE IT. I STARTED MAKING SOME POTION BOTTLES:


I'M HAVING TONS OF FUN DECORATING & AGING EACH BOTTLE -- PLUS, DECIDING WHAT TO PUT INSIDE THE BOTTLES AND MAKING LABELS FOR THEM.

FINDING BOTTLES SMALL ENOUGH TO FIT IN THE BOXES ARE A CHALLENGE. I BOUGHT SOME TINY GLASS BOTTLE MADE BY TIM HOLTZ, BUT THEY'RE BASICALLY ALL THE SAME SHAPES. A TRIP TO THE DOLLAR STORE SOLVED THAT WITH SOME UNUSUAL BOTTLES THAT HAD NAIL POLISH IN THEM. ALSO, I'M MAKING THE ROUNDS TO THE THRIFT STORES, AND FINDING SOME GREAT STUFF. (THE "COFFIN NAILS" CONTAINER IS A SHOT GLASS FROM THE GOODWILL.)

4 comments:

ButtonMooner said...

I love these bottles and your shadow box, so creative!
Can I ask, did you buy the labels or did you make them yourself?

ButtonMooner said...

I love these bottles and your shadow box, so creative!
Can I ask, did you buy the labels or did you make them yourself?

Arley said...

The bottle decorations are easy. I found everything I needed to know about making potion bottles on the Internet. There are so many instructions out there. Aging glass is done by painting on matte medium. Take off the original caps and add corks (from the craft store). Add beads and trinkets to the corks by threading them on a pin and gluing them into the cork. Labels are even easier. There are so many examples out there. Just download them. There are many, MANY free labels available. Age labels with brown & black stamp ink (Tim Holtz made a career around distressing paper!) Please -- do a Google image search for "potion labels" and "potion bottles"!

Arley said...

Make sure to read blog posts after this one. I taught this as a class and give lots of details in 3 different posts.