h1is004 ~ Lady's
Dressing Table
Perfume BottlesRequired tools and
supplies:
- X-acto knife and fresh
blade
- Tweezers
- Cutting mat
- Detailing scissors
- Fast-grab, quick-dry
white craft glue that dries clear
- Quick-dry glue
that bonds metal and glass
- Small piece of aluminum
foil to use as a glue pot
- Artist's paint brush to
apply craft glue
- Toothpick for
guiding glue and winding labels
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1. Using a
bonding glue that can bond glass and metal, glue
bases to the glass units. If you are working on a
small mat, you can rotate the mat without disturbing
your bottles. This allows you to check that the
bottles are positioned upright and strait.
Glue the brass top to
the brass bead for the face cream jar.
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2. Glue the
label with the green and blue background to the
large pink bottle. Glue the lily of the valley plant
label to the amber bottle, and glue the redheaded
lady label to the lavender bottle.
Glue the round label
to the top of the face cream jar and the two oval
scenic labels go on the front and back of the jar. |
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3. Take a round
toothpick (or something similar in circumference)
and tightly wrap the labels round the pick. This
makes it so much easier for you to put the
bottleneck labels on the bottles.
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4. The most colorful
bottleneck label goes to the large pink bottle, the
blue label goes on the lavender bottle, and the
purple label goes on the amber bottle. Please note
that the two bottles on the right have their labels
switched by accident in the photo. |
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5. Set the label
on the top of the bottle to get the size right. It
should be almost flush with the top of the bottle --
just a little higher than the bottle. Take the paint
brush and paint the end of the label and glue to
fit. Repeat for all three. Wait to dry.
Next, use a glue that
dries clear and glue the bottleneck labels in place
on the tops of the bottles. I used a glue that
wasn't clear enough for the photo! |
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6. When dry, place a
drop of glue into the depression made by the label
on the amber bottle (Muguet des Bois). Take tweezers
and drop the clear glass ball into the glue -- the
imperfect end goes downward. |
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7. Repeat step 6
for the dove. Be extremely careful if you use
tweezers, because the dove is very fragile. It goes
on top of the lavender bottle. Note again that the
wrong bottleneck label is shown in this photo. |
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8. Take the
frosted glass flower and glue it to the pink bottle
top (Eau du Printemps). |