Wicked Wine Bottle Dolls
To make your wine bottle doll, you’ll need:
- From Ten Two Studios, a set of doll bodies. I used the Wicked Doll Bodies, but this would also work nicely with the Duchess Doll Bodies and Duchess Wings.
- An empty wine bottle, or any tall, narrow bottle.
- Fabric, ribbon and fibers, for the “skirt”.
- Chipboard, to support the body parts.
- Chalk inkpads, if you wish.
- Bamboo skewers.
- A glue stick, and E6000 or your favorite fabric to glass glue.
Clean the labels off the wine bottle. Since most wine bottle labels are waterproof, it will take a little work. I scraped with a razor blade, then used a little Goo Gone to get the sticky stuff off.
Cut strips of ribbon, or tear strips of fabric slightly longer than the height of the bottle, and glue around the top, just under the rim. I started with a layer of torn fabric strips, then layered plain ribbons on top, saving the fancier ribbons for the very last layer.
After each layer of ribbons, wrap a piece of fiber or narrow ribbon around the top of the bottle. This will hold the ribbons in place, so you can keep building up layers while the glue is still wet.
After each layer of ribbons, stand the bottle up, and trim the length. Don’t do this before gluing, because as you build up layers, the ribbons have to be longer to reach the bottom. When you’re happy with the look of your wine bottle skirt, tie one ribbon around the top rim of the bottle in a bow, to hide all the uglies. Set the bottle aside to let the glue dry.
Print out the doll bodies and wings on cardstock, and roughly cut the pieces you want to use from the sheets. Don’t do any close, detail cutting yet.
Glue the pieces to a sheet of chipboard, using a glue stick.
Cut the pieces out using sharp detail scissors.
Even my careful cutting often leaves little white bits behind. I tone these away with a chalk inkpad.
Glue any accessory pieces to the body. I used a mask and a hat for the sample. The mask has eyes in it, so you only have to cut around the outer edge, then apply it to the face in the appropriate position. The hat I chose needed a slash across the front of the brim to allow the head to slide into it.
Glue the finished body to the front rim of the bottle, and let it dry.
Rather than glue the wings to the body, I glued them to a bamboo skewer, which I dropped into the bottle. This allowed the wings to flutter a little when caught by a breeze. It will take a little creative cutting to make this work, but it’s a pretty neat effect.
I also made a broom for my doll, using a bamboo skewer, some sisal scraps, and a piece of ribbon, and glued it underneath her hand.
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Pretty cool! I have been wanting to do something with bottles. I glued the “Heebie Jeebie” stickers you sell (what I call them!) to my bottles…very funny! This is even better, and I think I’ll use Marie Antoinette. Thanks for the instruction!
Awesomely scary — great project — thanks for all you do to inspire.
Oh please tell me which ones the “Heebie Jeebie” stickers are that Sally mentions above????
I absolutely love this and have a lot of wine bottles (we have a lot of parties, lol) to put them on.
Some of them I drilled hole in to put lites in , wonder how the doll would look with her skirt lit up? Must
try that. Love your ideas…You all must never get any sleep with all the goodies you have for us . Keep it up. Smiles and hugs, Ruthanne
Sally is talking about decorating plain bottles with the labels sheets, available here.
Eeeeps! This is so wonderful! I am trying it!
We made these up to decorate a florist’s shop for Halloween – they looked great and attracted many comments.