Easy to make potion bottles that are cheap and quick also!

DIY Potion Bottles

I love quick crafts – this one also gets to tout that it’s cheap too! I started with a trip to the dollar store to get 3 jars with lids and a trip to the home improvement store and picked up a can of black matte spray paint (I made sure the paint was able to be used on glass and metal.). Once home I set out a good work area and started spraying the jars. Tip: Use short light coats of the paint!

These were to be only for decoration, so I did decide to spray the inside of the jars just to cover any areas that I missed on the outside of the jar- if you want to use them to put candy in, don’t spray the inside.

Once painted I let them dry and started on the tags. I did make 2 sets of tags, one for MTdawn the other for Pumpkin Papercraft (sister site). To check out the tags for Pumpkin Papercraft click here.

I wanted the tags to look old and ragged, so I opted for kraft paper. I also used Hero Arts Infinity Nesting Tag dies, and Stamp Craft letter stamps.

I cut the tags from kraft paper and cut off the bottom portion of them. Then I stamped the words on the tags in brown ink. I wanted the tags to look a bit worn, so I edges each tag with brown ink and crunched the paper up a little. I then found some funky yarn that I have had for a while, cut it down to the width I needed and slipped it thru the hole of the tag.

After a little while I decided I wanted to make more fun – and colorful – tags to go with these jars. Here’s what I came up with:

Candy Tag:

For this tag I used the following products:

• Stampin’Up! Tags Tags Tags stamp set and coordinating dies
• Sizzix thinlits – Jim Holtz Stacked Baroque Dies
• Stickles
• Scrap piece of patterned paper

How to:

• Stamp ‘it’s all about the candy’ stamp or cream cardstock, cut out with coordinating die and edge with black marker.
• Cut out 2 jack-o’-lanterns out of scrap piece of orange cardstock.
• Cut 2 small yellow circles out, glue to back of orange jack-o’-lanterns.
• Cut Baroque die out of scrap piece of Halloween paper, edge with black marker.
• Cut piece of green cardstock 1×3 inches. Notch ends.
• Cut 1 1/2 inch circle and punch 2 holes in it. Thread bakers twine through the holes and clue circle to the back of the Halloween paper.
• Using foam dots attach the green cardstock. Use Stickles to make glitter lines on the green.
• Using foam dots, attach the It’s all about the candy die cut and attach the 2 orange jack-o’-lanterns.

October 31 tag:

For this tag I used the following products:

• Stampin’Up! Festive Post stamp set and coordinating punch
• Scrap piece of patterned paper

How to:

• Cut a piece of scrap Halloween paper to 1 3/4 x 3. Notch ends, edge in black, and punch 2 small holes in middle of paper. Thread bakers’ twine thru.
• Stamp diagonal lines onto piece of scrap orange cardstock, punch out with postage stamp punch.
• Using foam dots attach orange to Halloween paper.
• Stamp October 31stamp onto scrap piece of cream in orange, cut out slightly larger then image. Edge with green marker.
• Using foam dots attach October 31 piece on top of orange piece.

Boo tag:

For this tag I used the following products:

• Stampin’Up! Warm Hearted stamp set
• 1/2-inch green ribbon
• 2 inch circle die
• 2 1/2-inch scallop circle die
• Green Liquid pearls
• Scrap piece of patterned paper

How To:

• Stamp Boo stamp in Black ink on cream cardstock. Stamp shading in orange. Cut out with 2 inch circle die.
• Cut 2 scallop circles out of purple Halloween paper. Slip thru crimper, and glue together.
• Cut 2 x 4 1/2 inch piece of Halloween paper for base (Mine had chevrons on it and I cut with the design to give interest.), edge with green marker. Punch hole at top and add baker’s twine.
• Cut 7 inch piece of green ribbon and adhere to base. Using foam dots add 2 scalloped circles.
• Using foam dots adhere the stamped circle.
• Using green Liquid Pearls add ‘dots’ around circle on edge.

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I think they turned out great, perfect additions to our Halloween decor.

–Dawn