Do-it-yourself stained-glass windows from plastic bottles. Stained glass lamp made of plastic bottles

stained glass lamp made of plastic bottles

From plastic bottles - a stained glass lamp in the Tiffany style

Master class on making lamps from plastic bottle. Even from two plastic bottles. Everything is done quite simply with your own hands. As a result, we get an interesting, original and one might say designer lamp.

We will need:
- 5 liter plastic bottle
- plastic shampoo bottle
- sealant
- wires
- metal tube
- bulb
- paint on glass
- polymer clay

These are the bottles we need.

Cut off about half of the 5 liter bottle.

From above, under the neck with a marker, we make six serifs. Equidistant, of course.

From these serifs we draw lines vertically down.

With we draw an approximately similar pattern on the bottle. Try to make it symmetrical.

Below, where the drawing ends, cut out the plastic along the outline of the drawing.

Now, according to the marked drawing, we apply the sealant with thin lines.

Below, where we just cut off the drawing along its contour, we also do not forget to go through the sealant.

Let the sealant dry. After it is completely dry, cover it with silver or gold paint. We need to achieve a metal effect.

Now it is desirable to fill the cavities with paint on glass. Use more than one or two colors. Use three or more colors. The lamp will look richer and brighter.

Now cut off the neck of the bottle. We needed it for convenient application sealant and paint. We held a bottle for him.

Now let's start cutting a small bottle.

But for starters, from plywood or thickkartshe is cut out the oval.

We make a hole in the middle of it. And we take two caps from such a small bottle and also make holes in them.

At the bottom of the bottle we make three holes in a line. Solder the lid to the bottom. The middle hole in the bottle and in the cap should match.

We insert a hollow metal tube.

We insert the bottle design intoderespicy oval.

We fasten with a nut from below.

To hide the traces of the connection, we cover everything with polymer clay.

We cover everything with golden paint or any paint imitating metal.

We fasten the bulb holder to the top of the metal tube. We pass the wires just through the tube.

We now return to the top of the lamp. From above, where the bottle had a neck, we make such a cap.

In order to top part kept on the bottom without additional fasteners, we make such a structure on a light bulb.

Then this structure is inserted into the cap on top of the lamp. The photo shows the inside of the lamp. Because there is polymer clay, everything will harden, after a while.

That's it. plastic bottle lampready. Everything as you can see was done by hand.

Hello dear gardeners! The topic of today's material is interesting to everyone and always relevant. It is probably familiar to many, but still I hope to surprise you.

Today, everything is sold in plastic bottles: water, lemonade, milk ... Of all the garbage that we accumulate, the most voluminous are the bottles: you put one in the trash can - and that's it: consider half a bucket occupied. And what is it like in the country! In many holiday villages, there are simply no garbage containers. There is only one way out: either take all this “good” to the city, to the nearest container, or somehow use what cannot be processed in country conditions.

Logical question: how plastic bottles can be used on the farm to be both useful, and convenient, and beautiful? That's what we'll talk about.

By the way, information sheet: plastic decomposes in water 100 to 500 years(according to different sources and depending on the type of plastic).

We have few factories that process garbage, so people themselves find interesting application simple and seemingly completely unnecessary things.

Plastic bottles in garden decor

If you wish, you can create such beauty - the neighbors will envy! Do you want to decorate the garden without special costs? See if there are empty plastic bottles in your country house.

Beautiful neat flower beds

Plastic bottles can be used to protect flower beds. The benefits here are obvious: flower beds and beds are not washed away by showers, they always look neat and pleasing to the eye. I think it looks great ... How to make such a flower bed?

Of course, you will need a lot of bottles (preferably the same size). We pour sand into them, close them and begin to build a "palisade". Bottles will have to be dug a little into the ground to give them stability. After the flower bed is fenced, paint the resulting border in any color. In principle, you can do this in advance - as you wish. But it seems to me that it is more convenient to paint an already finished fence than each bottle individually. And dark plastic containers can be left as they are, it also looks pretty. An example of the performance and opinions of summer residents on this method of using bottles, see the materials:

Flowers, palm trees, butterflies and other "tropics"

The beauty is indescribable. Turn on your imagination, wake up your fantasy and create all kinds of flowers in your garden that will never fade or rot)).

To make it clearer how to make something out of bottles (for example, flowers), let's look at an example.

What may be needed:

• plastic bottles of different colors;
• scissors, awl, thick threads;
• PVA glue and "Master";
• acrylic paints;
• candle;
• wire;
• beads, beads - for decoration.

With the rest, everything is more or less clear, but why a candle? Everything is simple. Cut off the necks of the bottles. We cut each neck not completely along, we make 6 petals. Give the petals a rounded shape. We light a candle and scorch each petal so that it melts a little. First, along the edges, so that they are beautiful and even, and then at the base of the petals, bending them at the same time, giving shape. Plastic when heated is well formed.

The stem is best made from thick wire. The stamens are made of thin wire, on which beads can be strung. It remains only to assemble the whole thing, fastening it with glue, using an awl and wire if necessary. Just look how beautiful the result is!

Cute animals for the garden

No one is made from bottles. The simplest, perhaps, is this. All you need is to cut and bend the ears, attach the tail and color it beautifully. However, there are crafts and very complicated ones. For example, animals from fairy tales. I will not describe their production step by step, otherwise the article will turn out to be of galactic proportions. I'd rather just show the video from the slides. From the photo, in principle, you can see what and how to do, it's not difficult to figure it out.

How do you like these animals? I think they look great! And if you involve children in the process, they will be delighted!

The tools used are the same as listed above. Paints - not necessarily acrylic. But they dry faster, which is a plus. And they hardly smell. True, they are also different.

Air curtains for the garden

These crafts captivated me precisely with their lightness and unusualness. I’ll specially collect bottles and make such a curtain in my yard! I think you can use bottles of different sizes.

The bottoms will come in handy, but you can also cut the leaves! From a distance it is not very clear what these transparent flowers hang on, but more interesting idea. We look ...

As you can see, you can fasten the flowers with threads, you can glue them to the base (for example, polyethylene film). I think this option is perfect for a gazebo. And it will be light, and the rain will not penetrate. There are a lot of options for curtains from bottles. But I still liked the first one better, and you?

Lamps and chandeliers for the garden

Actually, why not? Buying a lamp for the garden is unprofitable, just hanging a light bulb is ugly. Light from plastic bottles- An excellent option for lighting the garden area.

Such chandeliers are not ashamed to hang in the house.

Main rule: do not allow plastic parts to come into contact with the light bulb, otherwise they may melt. True, you can use energy saving lamp, it heats up less - up to +50...+60°C.

Girls! If you don’t know how to attach the light bulb itself, leave this matter to husbands, brothers or fathers ... From you - creativity, from them - a lighting element \u003d)))

bottle garden path

I recently wrote about garden paths in the article. But there was nothing about bottles, only about their caps. It turns out that a good path is obtained from the bottoms, along which it is pleasant to walk barefoot. note: the bottoms are laid on loose sand, the master must make an effort to fill them with sand. This will prevent their deformation in the future when you walk around them.

Household supplies from plastic bottles

That's where the expanse is ... If you think that garden decor from bottles - not for you, maybe you will be interested in useful things that can be made from them.

Wash basins and boxes

The easiest option is to hang upside down the bottle, and when you need to wash your hands, just turn off the cap a little. It is better to cut off the bottom of the bottle and make it removable so that it is more convenient to pour water. There is nothing complicated here, even a child can handle it. Such a washbasin can be hung on a tree or somewhere else. By the way, use this idea when you go on a picnic - it's very convenient, and your hands are always clean.

It is advisable to make a homemade washbasin closeable so that leaves, insects and other debris do not get into the water. There are more complex structures. You can, for example, embed a hose with a tap into a large bottle. But this is to be quite convenient.
Or you can make a box for bags, napkins or something similar out of a bottle.

Scoops and shovels

Making a scoop with your own hands is easy. Take the bottle and mark the shape of the future scoop with a marker. Next is the case of scissors. Well, or a knife.

Slippers

These are shoes that wear out pretty quickly. Therefore, durable and beautiful slippers on the farm will always come in handy. No, no, don't think that bottle slippers are just scoops with heels =))). I would like to see it ... Although simple options is also there. For example, this one:

And more difficult option looks like that:

Of course, it is not necessary to make such bouquets. But in general, slippers are excellent. In order not to slip, and the leg feels comfortable, you can experiment with “layers”. How to make holes? Yes, even a hole punch! And if there are men in the house, let them solve this problem.

And from plastic bottles you can make very useful large containers for household needs:

Devices for repelling rodents and insects

There are many different ones. I will only talk about the mole repeller and the mosquito trap.

Let's start with the trap
Make it very easy. Cut off the top of the bottle and insert it into the bottom with the neck down. The design must be darkened with paper or cloth - mosquitoes will be more likely to fly there.

Pour into the bottom of the bottle as bait sugar yeast syrup. Easy to make: pour hot water, add sugar and yeast there, stir and cool. Such a trap will attract not only mosquitoes, but also bees, wasps, flies.

You can put the structure on the window or hang it - this is optional. It needs to be cleaned once a week.

By the way, I don’t know why the syrup is brown in the photo - maybe from cane sugar?))) Or maybe it’s kvass. By the way, yes - insects also fly to kvass. Somehow they left a jar of kvass on the porch, so many midges flocked there!

Wind vane repelling moles and more
These devices were described in detail in the article. There is also a video - you can see how to make such a design, how it works. Ask what scares him? At the bottom of the bottle, it is advised to pour beads, balls from bearings and other “rattling” elements. They say that the sound that this windmill makes is not tolerated by moles. Who has moles? Try it, then unsubscribe here, agreed?
Yes, the axis on which the craft is attached must be stuck into the ground - I think you understand.

About the fact that some use bottles, I think you already know. The bottom and throat of the bottle are cut off - a cylinder is obtained, which is dug into the ground. This cover protects root system young plant from the attempts of a bear.

Tool boxes

For these purposes, rectangular bottles are more suitable. For example, from under machine oils. However, there are also water bottles of this shape. Containers are made simply: mark with a marker, cut. Everything =))

These boxes can be very useful in the household.

Device for deep watering plants and their night heating

Some plants do not like surface watering. Therefore, my mother waters some beds with plastic bottles.

You need to cut off the bottom of the bottle, but not completely, to get something like a cap. We tear the earth on the side of the plant, make a small trench and put pebbles there. Drainage is needed so that water does not erode the soil. Then we put the bottles with their necks down and lay them on the ground. Now, to water the plant, all you need is to open the lid and pour right amount water. Here, look how our summer residents use plastic containers.

Some people dig in containers upside down, but then you need to make holes in the bottle so that the water leaves.

As for heating plants, you can simply pour water into bottles and put them over the plant. In the sun, the water will heat up and will give off heat to the earth for some time. I know that glass bottles they also dig into the ground, but today we are talking about plastic.

Garden knee pads

It is generally contraindicated for many people to work bending over, this is especially true for hypertensive patients. But how then to weed the garden? Yes, I'll tell you about the knee pads. If you work on your knees, your head will no longer be down, therefore, your well-being will not suffer.

All you have to do is find the right bottles, try them on your knees and cut out the knee pads. desired shape. Then attach the ties. Everything is simple.

Flower pots

And what only pots from plastic bottles do not exist! Some simply pour earth into bottles, others make real masterpieces. The possibilities are endless. What's good: the bottles can always be painted in any color and hung anywhere. For example, what do you think of these ideas?

Very cute, and you will not immediately guess what the pots are made of.

Candlestick

I made my first candlestick from a plastic bottle back in primary school, at the lesson of labor. It's simple. Cut off the neck and bottom of the bottle (about half the bottle). Then cut the part with the bottom into strips and bend them. And inside you insert the part with the neck. She will hold the candle. In general, it's easy.

But this is only one of the options, you can connect two necks.

Broom

Instead of a thousand words, I will show one video.

Why buy a broom when you can make one in half an hour?

Funnels

On the farm, from time to time there is a need to pour something from one container to another. Not necessarily something edible - it happens, and diluted fertilizer, and poison for Colorado beetles... Do not use a funnel from the kitchen for such purposes! And you can make a funnel from a bottle at any time.

Bird feeders

We fed the birds in these all winter. Bottles used large, 5-liter. I cut out windows in them, made small “thresholds” and “porches”. So that it was comfortable for the birds to sit, and the snow did not sweep inside. Another plus is that it is convenient to hang such feeders on trees, they already have handles.

Buildings made from plastic bottles

These are not funnels with pots, but something more serious. Entrepreneurial people can build something out of anything. Plastic bottles, for example, make excellent greenhouses and gazebos.

Greenhouses from plastic bottles

A finished medium-sized greenhouse costs more than 15 thousand rubles. I know for sure, because I was interested in this issue. Add to that the cost of assembly. Not everyone can figure out what's what. But there is an alternative that is not inferior in terms of performance and it will cost you ... only 500-700 empty plastic bottles! =))

The plastic from which the bottles are made is 20 times stronger than dense polyethylene. It keeps the temperature perfectly, does not melt in the sun and can last for decades. Greenhouse made of plastic bottles there are a number of advantages:

• she is cheap;
• durable;
• easily repaired;
• light in weight, it can be rearranged if necessary;
• looks pretty cute.

I took a look at different sites and realized that there are 2 main ways to use plastic bottles in construction:

1. The bottom of each bottle is cut off. A thin rail is taken and all the bottles are strung on it. Get ready-made building strips.
2. The bottom and neck of the bottles are cut off. Then what happened - the middle part - is cut along. It turns out a rectangular piece of plastic. We iron it with an iron (necessarily through hard paper) to level it. From such sheets we sew more sheets. Overlap preferably. You can use an awl; for fastening parts - cord thread or wire. It is not recommended to sew with thread or fishing line - the seams will quickly rot and disperse.

When the sheets (slats) are ready, you can make a frame. It is made from ordinary wooden bars with a hammer and nails. Form - any. You can - a house, you can - a triangle. And then we attach what we made from bottles to the frame. In the first case, the planks should be placed as close to each other as possible so that the wind does not walk. Well, you can always stick it with tape. In general, you'll figure it out!)) And in the second case, ready-made plates from plastic bottles are simply nailed to wooden frame.

Important point- roof. Generally, good frame able to withstand a rather heavy weight, but knowledgeable people advise covering the roof not with bottles, but with polycarbonate sheets. Or something to strengthen for the winter - suddenly it will pile up a lot of snow. Here is another interesting post

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From plastic bottles you can make a lot of useful things for the garden and garden

Lovingly equipping the city dwelling, we are no less touching about our summer cottages. We try to ennoble them, create for ourselves comfortable conditions and add special notes of attractiveness to even rows of beds and berry bushes. Many summer residents have chosen the most affordable and flexible material for their creative experiments - ordinary plastic bottles. About what products can be made for the garden and cottages, we will talk further!

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Manufacturing idea useful gadgets and decorative things from plastic containers is not new. The first attempts led our grandparents to build low fences for paths. Assessing the plasticity and cheapness of the material, craftsmen from the people went further. And now summer cottages are decorated with full-fledged fences, funny figures and unusual devices made of plastic bottles.

A lovely ostrich from a pet container cannot fail to please your children!

Thanks to fantasy and excellent material, like plastic bottles, we have almost limitless possibilities for creating crafts for every taste, any complexity and direction

Pictures from caps of plastic bottles and other containers have grown into a whole art direction

Plastic bottles have long been in great demand among gardeners.

Gorgeous orange flowers from pet containers

Crafts and decorations for summer cottages and gardens from plastic bottles do not require the use of complex tools and specialized skills. The main thing is that there is time and desire, as well as enough material. Those who had both, convincingly proved the limitless possibilities of such needlework, and we have prepared a review best examples crafts.

Do-it-yourself furniture, flowerpots and a vase from a plastic bottle

Comfortable and very stylish chair made of plastic bottles

A sheet of plywood, sixteen one and a half liter bottles, adhesive tape - and a convenient and durable one will appear on your site. coffee table. Plywood can be replaced with plastic or hardboard, old countertops or plexiglass. From the same materials, slightly changing the design, you can make a garden bench. Some diligent and patient craftsmen manage to assemble full-fledged sofas and armchairs from bottles.

From plastic bottles, you can even make the basis for a full-fledged sofa, if you fasten them firmly and neatly.

Hanging flowerpot or base for planters

Do-it-yourself ottoman from plastic bottles

How to make a pouffe from a pet container

house made of plastic bottles

There are real builders among the summer residents who know that it is possible to build whatever your heart desires from plastic bottles. They collect gazebos, toilets, sheds and even from plastic bottles. The only difficulty of such structures is not in their assembly, but in the assembly required amount bottles.

House with a roof of 7,000 bottles

Plastic bottles are a good base material for building walls of a summer house, a greenhouse, a shower, a toilet or other partitions.

The walls of the greenhouse from containers on a wooden frame

The bottoms of plastic bottles will help to arrange garlands for the garden

Playground: flowers from plastic bottles and toys from plastic bottles

Crafts from plastic bottles will help decorate the playground

All kinds of crafts from plastic bottles (photos of their various variations for the garden can be easily found on our portal) are especially attractive for decorating a playground. Absolutely safe, they can become the basis for toys, and for fun decorations, and for creating plot compositions. Funny elephants, bees, rabbits and hedgehogs, bright flowers, funny lanterns will turn the countryside island of childhood into a fairy-tale kingdom.

A whole plot for a playground from caps of plastic bottles and canisters

From the caps of plastic bottles, together with children, you can make small crafts and large plot mosaics

plastic bottle doll

Examples of a variety of crafts that will help the gardener with placement, easy transportation and plant care

Piglets from large plastic bottles - stable stands for germinating seedlings or small plants

Craft for garden or lawn decor: pet container parrot

Crafts for the garden and useful little things

Multi-colored turtles will be a great decor element for your garden.

With what ease the "crazy" hands of summer residents turn used plastic container into useful summer cottages, you can be sure by walking along suburban areas. Here, on the trunk of a tree, a washstand was comfortably attached, and in the next courtyard, a gazebo was decorated with multi-colored ones with fragrant primrose and ampelous geraniums. We have also prepared for you several descriptions of crafts from plastic bottles for the garden.

Do-it-yourself bird from plastic bottles

DIY painted garden owl lanterns

Birdhouse from a plastic bottle

It is very easy to make a birdhouse from a plastic bottle

Cut in half plastic bottles will become pretty flower pots, it is important to paint them carefully. It is also advisable to take opaque bottles for this.

The ever-tangled and stuck twine for tying seedlings will stop tormenting you if you hide the ball in a plastic bottle. Just cut the bottle in the middle, put a ball in the top, pass the end of the twine through the neck, connect the parts, secure the cut with tape - and a comfortable storage is ready.

Drip irrigation from plastic bottles

Your seedlings will not wither, even if you are away for a few days: install semi-automatic watering. Once again, plastic bottles come into play. We cut off the bottom of the bottle, about 2/3, drill 4-8 holes in the cork, close the neck, bury the bottle upside down, pour water - and the seedlings are provided with moisture during your absence. A similar garden made of plastic bottles (photo confirms this) will significantly save your time and money.

Automatic watering "Aquasolo" - these are conical nozzles for a threaded bottle that do not require time-consuming drilling of slots, digging into the ground, and so on

Anthurium with convenient system automatic watering "Aquasolo"

Maximum and space saving: plastic bottles suspended one above the other with a notched tube of water passing through them

• • For the same seedlings, plastic bottles make excellent containers. After cutting the bottle in half and taking the bottom, pour the prepared substrate into it, plant the plants and place them on a bookcase made of wooden planks. This design is also suitable for decorating a house with flowers.

Beautiful hanging pots made of plastic bottles will not only decorate the interior, but also make it unique.

Great flowerpot from a shampoo bottle with your own hands

Arrangement in the country of compact placement of seedlings or small plants

Bird feeder from a plastic bottle

Some crafts from plastic bottles for the garden amaze with the ingenuity of the owners. By putting a bottle on a hose and making many holes in the bottom, you will get a wonderful diffuser for watering the garden. From a five-liter container, you can build an elegant lamp on the veranda, and a mineral water container is suitable as a bird feeder.

Plastic bird feeder

Simple and handy hose spreader for garden watering

• • • Plastic bottles will help you save trees from pests. Cut the bottle lengthwise into two halves, fill it with a mixture of insecticides that is attractive to pests and dig at the base of the trunk.
    • From bottles you can make a magnificent decorative all-weather and all-season flower bed. Just paint the bottoms of the bottles different colors and assemble them into a wonderful carpet, sticking them with the open side into the ground. The carpet pattern can be pre-reproduced on paper.

Making flower beds with pet containers has become very popular

• • • • One Brazilian engineer made calculations and built a solar collector from plastic bottles. The design can be placed on a summer cottage, connected to storage tank and you will always have a warm shower.

Solar collector made from plastic bottles

Automatic watering of seedlings and ornamental plants in your absence with the help of a plastic bottle dug near the roots with small holes drilled in the neck or cap

Cut plastic containers suspended one above the other are the fastest and most economical way out of a situation where you need to germinate a lot of seedlings in a limited space

Making an owl from a plastic bottle with your own hands

Vertical bottle garden for sprouting and wintering plants - an opportunity to save space and provide good irrigation and drainage

Products from plastic bottles: artistic masterpieces

Gorgeous dandelions from pet containers will never cease to delight you and your guests

Fantasy craftsmen so diverse that it leads to the appearance of summer cottages and outlandish animals, and characters of fairy tales and cartoons, and exotic plants, and original thematic compositions.

We paste over the bottom of a plastic bottle or cup with dry twigs and get an unusual candlestick, protected from wind blows

Rainbow decor of the garden, workshop, garage: a fountain of spirals cut from multi-colored plastic bottles

Plastic bottles are used not only to decorate the garden, but also to decorate the home.

Country crafts from plastic bottles:

If you have a small body of water on the site, you can arrange it plastic palm. It's not at all difficult to make it. You will need:

• • • • • 10-15 brown plastic bottles (for a palm tree trunk);
        • 5-6 green bottles (it is desirable that they are long);
        • iron or willow rod;
        • an awl or drill for making holes;
        • sharp knife or scissors for cutting bottles.

A palm tree made of plastic bottles looks very beautiful

Now let's start making jewelry.

• • • • Cut all brown bottles in half. We take the lower parts and make holes in the bottom of each of them with an awl, equal in size to the diameter of the rod.

        Advice! You can take the tops of the bottles, then you do not have to make additional holes.

      • We cut off the bottom of the green bottles by about 1 cm. We leave one of the blanks with a neck, cut it off for the rest to make a loop.
      • Carefully cut the green bottles lengthwise into three equal parts to the very loop.

Making palm leaves

Combination of stem and leaves

Assembling a palm tree from plastic bottles

Using several rods of different lengths, you can create a real oasis. As you can see, it’s not so difficult to make crafts for a garden from plastic bottles with your own hands, the main thing is to find enough material and take one of the proposed ideas as a basis.

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From plastic covers you can create real masterpieces

Don't throw away bottle caps. decorative crafts from caps from plastic bottles for summer cottages and gardens, you can also beautifully fit into its landscape. They will serve as an excellent mosaic material for decorating fences and walls of a country house.

Bright compositions made of plastic caps will help to make your landscape design more fun

Master class video (from plastic bottles of standard capacity):

A walkway made of plastic covers is not only economical, but also very beautiful.

Large-scale red and blue mosaic of caps of different sizes

Having conjured a little with the pattern, painted and drilled holes in the sides of the covers, you can use them to assemble a curtain on the door. The perfect insect repellant!

Lids can also be converted into beautiful tabletop, and in a practical rug at the doorstep. Use them for decorative finishes inner space.

Gorgeous door curtains made from plastic covers

Carport that diffuses sunlight

Beautiful Hawaiian style lanterns

Before starting work, remove the labels from the bottles and wash the container thoroughly.

For sustainability vertical structures fill the bottles with sand or small pebbles.

Dragonflies from corrugated plastic bottles

Ingenious device for collecting fruits from trees

Hanging pots from pet containers with the image of animals will perfectly fit into the interior of a children's room

Choose bottles of different softness for crafts. For example, for the body of a dog or elephant, take a strong base, and for the ears it is better to use softer plastic.

Master class from plastic bottles (step by step):

Master class on making a lamp from a plastic bottle. Even from two plastic bottles. Everything is done quite simply with your own hands. As a result, we get an interesting, original and one might say designer lamp.

We will need:
- 5 liter plastic bottle
- plastic shampoo bottle
- sealant
- wires
- metal tube
- bulb
- paint on glass
- polymer clay

These are the bottles we need.

Cut off about half of the 5 liter bottle.

From above, under the neck with a marker, we make six serifs. Equidistant, of course.

From these serifs we draw lines vertically down.

With we draw an approximately similar pattern on the bottle. Try to make it symmetrical.

Below, where the drawing ends, cut out the plastic along the outline of the drawing.

Now, according to the marked drawing, we apply the sealant with thin lines.

Below, where we just cut off the drawing along its contour, we also do not forget to go through the sealant.

Let the sealant dry. After it is completely dry, cover it with silver or gold paint. We need to achieve a metal effect.

Now it is desirable to fill the cavities with paint on glass. Use more than one or two colors. Use three or more colors. The lamp will look richer and brighter.

Now cut off the neck of the bottle. We needed it for convenient application of sealant and paint. We held a bottle for him.

Now let's start cutting a small bottle.

But for starters, from plywood or thickkartshe is cut out the oval.

We make a hole in the middle of it. And we take two caps from such a small bottle and also make holes in them.

At the bottom of the bottle we make three holes in a line. Solder the lid to the bottom. The middle hole in the bottle and in the cap should match.

We insert a hollow metal tube.

We insert the bottle design intoderespicy oval.

We fasten with a nut from below.

To hide the traces of the connection, we cover everything with polymer clay.

We cover everything with golden paint or any paint imitating metal.

We fasten the bulb holder to the top of the metal tube. We pass the wires just through the tube.

We now return to the top of the lamp. From above, where the bottle had a neck, we make such a cap.

In order for the upper part to rest on the lower one without additional fasteners, we make such a structure on the light bulb.

Then this structure is inserted into the cap on top of the lamp. The photo shows the inside of the lamp. Because there is polymer clay, everything will harden, after a while.

That's it. plastic bottle lampready. Everything as you can see was done by hand.

Stained glass windows have always attracted the attention of people with their unusual beauty. The great masters of their craft created masterpieces that still flaunt in many cathedrals around the world. But not every person thought about how these magnificent, multi-colored paintings are created. The classical process of making stained-glass windows is a rather laborious and painstaking task, but there are technologies and it is easier, having mastered at least one of them, you can easily transform the interior of your home. Stained glass flowers can be made by anyone, follow step by step instructions and you will have a new interior decoration.

We make a stained-glass window with flowers on the window with our own hands from plastic with etching of seams

For work you will need:

• Glass.
• Tassel.
• Sponge.
• roller.
• The plastic is self-adhesive.
• Paste.
• Marker.
• Blade or sharp knife.
• Tracing paper.

Completing of the work:

1. Prepare a drawing with clear contours and no halftones, no smooth transitions colors and transfer the image to tracing paper.
2. Prepare the glass, if it has sharp edges, sand them down. Then wash it thoroughly detergent You can also degrease the surface with alcohol or acetone.
3. Lay a sheet of plastic on the glass. And removing protective layer, gently spread it over the glass surface, immediately pressing it tighter so that air bubbles do not appear.
4. Glue the picture on the back of the glass with adhesive tape. Circle the outlines with a felt-tip pen. If the film is not transparent, then transfer the design to it through carbon paper.
5. With a blade, cut out the contours of the sections on the plastic, cutting out the corners well.
6. For better adhesion of fragments, roll the surface of the picture with a roller. Delete unnecessary, cut out fragments of the contour.
7. Take the etch paste and apply it between the film fragments to etch the contours. The paste should be evenly distributed. If the etching areas are too large, use a spatula. At the end of the etching, leave the work for five minutes.
8. Remove excess paste with a spatula, then clean the surface with a sponge dampened with water and wipe dry with a cloth.
9. Look at the glass in the light, to identify unetched places, if any, then repeat the procedure again. Finished glass can be inserted into the window.

Learning a simple way to make a butterfly: imitation stained glass

Wonderful beautiful butterflies very easy to make from plastic bottles.

Take a plastic bottle and cut off the narrowed part and the bottom, only a flat area is useful. Sketch a butterfly and attach it to inner surface plastic, spreading the sheet well. Draw all the outlines with black paint, and when it dries, paint the butterfly with colored paints. While the paint dries, make the body and antennae of the insect out of wire and beads. If the paint is dry, cut out the butterfly, observing wavy lines wing contours. To prevent the product from twisting into a tube, bend it in the middle in the opposite direction, then glue the bead body. The finished butterfly can be attached to a pin or attached to a stick, and it will flutter on your curtain or in a flower pot.

In the same way, you can make other figures - birds, flowers or animal figures.

Painting a vase, imitation of L. Tiffany's technique - a work of medium complexity.

1. Prepare a transparent square vase. To ensure that the paint lays evenly on the glass surface, wash it well with detergent.
2. Prepare a template, for this, put a vase on a sheet of paper and circle all its edges with a pencil, then create a sketch.
3. If you do not know how to draw, then you can download a ready-made stencil and fit it to the product parameters on a computer, then print it on a printer.

1. Transfer the design to the glass using carbon paper or gently stick the template to inside glass.
2. Outline all the lines with contour paint and let it dry.

1. Paint the details of the drawing with colored paints using a brush - drip a drop of paint into the middle of the fragment and stretch it close to the contour line, but do not fit on it. Immediately paint all the details of one color, then take another color and so on.
2. When the entire drawing is painted, leave the work until the paint is completely dry.

In the same technique, you can make a rack, but for this you need four glasses and ready template on paper in full size. Next, paint the glass each separately, placing the drawing under the glass. If you have a non-colored background, then cover it with colorless paint. When the paint is completely dry, insert the glass into the stand base.

If you decide to make such a stained-glass window for a window, then after the paint has dried, cover the finished drawing with a colorless varnish or cover the drawing with a second sheet and fasten them together with silicone glue.

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