DIY Water Carafe from Wine Bottle

Glass Etching Wine Bottle

What I thought was just a week or two has turned into a month! I promised a tutorial on this, um, a month ago? Sorry about that. To quote the great Alan Parsons Project, “Time keeps on slippin’ (slippin’) into the future…”

I wanted to make some cool upcycled (recycled) wine bottle glasses for some gifts. So I started hoarding collecting our wine bottles specifically for the project. After lots of You Tube viewing on cutting wine bottles, and a failure to purchase or make a glass bottle cutter, I decided to switch gears and try something else… etched glass.

Seems simple enough. Remove all labels from the wine bottles, wash them up – instant water carafes! But etch the bottle to make it all cool-looking.

  • I measured a few wine labels to get an idea of how large the area could be. 3″ x 4″ seems to be reasonable (not that you have to cover the entire area with text).
  • Then I made up some templates just using a desktop publisher… you know how much of a font/text geek I am (i.e. Subway art).
  • Using your favorite app and your favor font, type: H2O, Agua, Water. Anything you want. Associating the word “water” is self-explanatory. Pretty simple. Next, make sure your word is the right size for you and print.

Glass Etching Wine Bottle

  • Remember, Contact paper? I still have a small roll from when I used it for shelf lining (and I also covered some textbooks with it). Take your printout and place over the Contact paper.
  • Using an X-acto knife cut away the letters leaving yourself a stencil. With letters that have a hole (“O”, “A”, “g”) you’ll need to save the small inserts.
  • Place the stencil on the bottle and make sure the edges are all adhered. The glass etching cream will have instructions – follow them carefully.

You’re done! I know some crafters have fancy die-cutting machines. That would make all this a lot easier, but I don’t have one yet. It’s use-what-you-have, old-fashioned ingenuity around here. I decided to corral the bottles with some wine label coasters I made recently – in an upcycled container, of course.

Have a great weekend!

Glass Etching Wine Bottle

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