So I am redoing my office at school in a beach cottage theme therefore I decided to try my hand at tinting some bottles.
The two rippled ones are ones I bought at the Dollar Tree store because I liked the ripples. The other three are tinted and painted.
I read that to tint bottle you could use a little watered down modge podge and food coloring. There were two methods I discovered.
One was to pour the mixture into the bottle and swish it around to cover the inside completely. Next turn the bottle upside down for five mintues and then right side up for five minutes and last of all to bake it on the lowest temperature in the oven for like 20 minutes. This would hasten the drying process.
The second method was to use a sponge, paint brush or rag to paint the outside of the bottle with the modge podge solution.
I first tried the painting one. I liked the look with a rag not a brush because the brush left too many brush strokes. I liked the frosted look. As it dried though it didn't seem quite dark enough so I decided to also pout the mixture inside and coat it. I did not put the bottle in the oven but let it dry. This left a slight ring around the bottom of the bottle but doe not take away from the over all effect.
I tried doing the pouring inside the bottle without painting the outside but I didn't get the same frosted look. So for me a combination of the two methods gave me the look I desired.
The white and blue bottle is spray painted (I read it would make it look like milk glass but mine didn't). I used a sponge to add some blue paint. I'm not crazy about it but will try painting again on another bottle
