Craft supplies can be mega expensive when you add up the cost of a haul.
I know because I am a craft supplies junkie! But in recent years, I have leaned more and more towards finding my craft supplies in the recycling bin.
I find the base material in the waste recycling and then use craft supplies to turn junk into gems
Do you ever look at a jar or bottle and think – this is way too pretty to throw away?
Do you ever wonder what you could I make with them?
That’s what happened when I was washing this empty plastic honey bottle ready to put in the blue bin.
No, I cried – this will become something else!
To see the full tutorial video click here to go to my YouTube channel.
Although I used a few other craft supplies that I had bought, the main base for this project was junk.
I love the challenge, because plastic isn’t easy to dress up!
It’s cheap looking and lightweight – so my challenge was to take the plastic look away.
And I also needed to give it a more solid feel.
Using Starlights Metallic paints from Imagination Crafts helped to take away the plastic look.
It gave the bottle a gold glow which I contrasted with a dark emerald color.
Starlights metallic paints are one of my most loved craft supplies.
(Update 2024 – these paints are very hard to find now. They come up as ‘currently unavailable’ on Amazon.)
For this project, I sponged the paints on to get a lovely textured feel.
It took away the smoothness of the plastic bottle.
It masks the fact that the incense holder was actually once a squeezy plastic honey container.
These have a wonderful glow to them in certain light – especially sunlight – that I have not seen in other paints.
I was especially pleased with the way they covered the plastic.
If you live in the US or anywhere else served by Amazon.com and you don’t want to ship in from the UK, have a look in my Amazon store – Rainbow Lane .
There you will find a set of Americana Dazzling Metallic Paints.
Note: These items were available at the time of posting but may not be now.
You will also find a selection of craft brads to use like I did in the video.
I have not used these paints but they seem to be the closest I can find to Starlight paints.
Want to know how I made this lightweight bottle heavier so it wouldn’t knock over easily?
Watch my video on how I did the project from start to finish and you will see what I did.
My videos are shot from an angle where you can clearly see everything I am doing.
And, I try to cut out as much non-essential footage as possible as I know time is valuable.
You can find the video here on my YouTube channel.
It’s an short easy to follow film and I hope it inspires you to look for your craft supplies in the trash!
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