Today I bring to you a super sweet Candy Corn Bottle Vases project that you can create in a handful of minutes! It’s super simple and will look great for the Halloween season. As of late, I haven’t been able to resist candy corn crafts. I have ALL KINDS of ideas!
Candy Corn Bottle Vases
You’ll need spray paint in white, orange, and yellow. Also gather old vases and glass bottles in various shapes. Mine were a vase from ikea (the dotted one above), an Izze soda bottle, and a fancy Blood orange drink bottle. Clean and scrub off any labels off with Goo-Gone or dishwashing liquid. Let dry completely before painting.
Paint a basecoat of white on the jars following can directions and let dry completely. Admission: I did a terrible job at painting the basecoat and didn’t get a photo. I pulled the white pin from the spray paint. Please don’t do this. MAJOR FAIL! Haha!
My boyfriend William stepped in to save the day and tried to cover up my mistakes.He then sprayed orange on the middle part leaving a faint mist at top and bottom. He did a first coat, let it dry, then went back in and did another coat. Trust me, it works better to add the orange first! Let dry completely.
Now mist the yellow on the bottom until you get a solid coverage. This will take one or two coats. Let dry.
That’s it! You’re done! Display your jars with fall flowers in side or in a little grouping. It would be fun to creat an entire vignette on a table or mantle with candy corn sprinkled all around!
Check out my other Halloween Craft & Pumpkin ideas!
Until next time Swellions!
Very cool!
That is the neatest idea!! Love it!
Too cool! Also, clever and simple as are most genius ideas. I will have to do this and soon. BTW, I’m also an Alexa!! Back in the fifties I was the only one and now we’re everywhere :o)
Totally awesome, and I would have guessed much harder to make, just by looking at them!
I would love to have you link up with Creative Me Monday at The Southern Institute! My linky party runs all week long. Here’s the link:
http://www.thesoutherninstitute.com/2011/09/creative-me-monday.html?utm_source=BP_recent
Hope to see you there!
Jenny
What a great idea!
way cool!
I thought there was going to be a lot involved with this project. I followed the link from the CRAFT page of FB and here I am and the project is so simple. I love it! Candy corn is my favorite!
Love that idea! And I’m so glad I just discovered your blog…where have I been??
These are great! I’d love if you would post them as part of my Candy Corn Crafts linky I put on my blog today. Here is the link:
http://bingecrafter.blogspot.com/2011/09/something-corny.html
Visiting from Blue Cricket & now following!
Angela
bingecrafter.blogspot.com
Oh, I really love this idea.
They turned out pretty cool!
So creative! Great idea!
So creative! Great idea!
That is such a fun idea. I’ve never seen candy corn bottles! I am featuring this at somedaycrafts.blogspot.com. Grab my “featured” button.
I love this. I just saved the best bottle for it, unless hubby put it in the trash first.
I justed posted this great craft as a pin on pinterest. Thank you for sharing this with, and I added your name and blogsite to my pin, to give you the credit you deserve. Thank you for sharing!
Diane
Love. love. love.
I am so making these.
I also pinned you on pinterest!
I can hardly wait to make some! Thanks for sharing! -Kansas Amy (your newest follower)
I’m going out for some white, orange and yellow spray paint tomorrow!
Those are so cute! I already have the yellow and white spray paint so maybe I’ll try to re-create these someday.
Adorable! Thanks for the idea! These will go great with the Coffee Filter Pumpkins I just created! Check them out at http://overthebigmoon.blogspot.com/2011/09/coffee-filter-pumpkins.html
Pam @ http://www.overthebigmoon.com
Great project, I stumbled upon your blog by accidentally and LOVE it…Super creative…I’m officially following with big smiles :)) I’m Marilyn from http://theartsygirlconnection.blogspot.com..hope you can visit me sometime.. :)))
I love this! New follower!
such a cool idea! Thanks for sharing!
You are a genius!
I love these bottles and love how they turned out. Thanks for all the details.
Got her from Jen’s (TT&J) post on the FB Home Ec page. This was one of my favorites.
What a great project! 🙂 I’ve featured this post on Craft Gossip here:
http://homeandgarden.craftgossip.com/candy-corn-bottle-vases/
If you would like a “featured by” button, you can grab one here:
http://homeandgarden.craftgossip.com/grab-a-craft-gossip-button/
You are a GENIUS! I love your blog so much – just found it today! I’m so excited!
Oh I just LOVE this! Great idea!
Christy from http://www.WhimsicalWhimsies.com
I linked up to this post today on Over the Big Moon! You can find it here: http://overthebigmoon.blogspot.com/2011/10/pams-fall-and-halloween-decor.html
Pam from http://www.overthebigmoon.com
Does it have to be with spray paint? or could you use craft paint?
Oh I used regular craft paint I could find good price on the colored spray paint I did use a glaze to seal But I post a picture of mine on my blog with a link to this site!
http://shadesofgreenneo.blogspot.com/2011/10/halloween-recycled-crafts-part-2.html
These are AMAZING!! They turned out great! I’m hosting a Fabulous Fall party over at Not So Simple Housewife and I’d love for you to link this up! We are celebrating Fall and giving me and everybody else some great inspiration. We are looking for crafts, decor, food, and more! I’d love for you to add this and any other fall posts you may have!
Kaitlin-The Not So SImple Housewife
http://notsosimplehousewife.blogspot.com/2011/10/fabulous-fall-link-party.html
LOVE THIS! Im going to have to set some cool bottles aside for this project!
Awesome vases. Here are a few more.
http://www.dekornation.com/interior-designer/vases.html
I know this is an old post, but I wanted you to know this anyway. I just came across it yesterday. I am going to do this with ten 2L bottles and we’ll use them to bowl at a Halloween-themed, 3yo birthday party! Thanks for the great idea!
Just stopping by to let you know that I have featured your project on Fun Family Crafts! You can see it here
http://funfamilycrafts.com/candy-corn-bottle-vases/
If you have other kid friendly crafts, I’d love it if you would submit them 🙂 If you would like to display a featured button on your site, you can grab one from the right side bar of your post above.
These are super cute! I would love to invite you to share this, and any other posts, at my Creative Thursday Link Party at http://www.michellestastycreations.blogspot.com. Have a great weekend.
Michelle
I LOVE these candy corn painted bottles..they are SUPER cute! Thank you for sharing how you made them. I hope it’s okay, I just finished a Halloween crafts/decor round-up and just couldn’t resist featuring your awesome candy corn bottles. You can see it here:
http://jamiebrock.hubpages.com/hub/Super-Cute-DIY-Project-Ideas-Decorating-for-Halloween
Thank you again for the tutorial… I can’t wait to try and make some 🙂
Did you have to prep the bottles in any way or does the paint stick without prep? Thanks!
~Kristy
The paint sticks to bottles that are clean and without any residue. Use some goo gone if there’s labels/stickiness you need to get rid ot.
So cute…I’m always up for spray painting something and with these results…what am I waiting for?
These are so cute! I love them! I blog over at http://www.2crafty4myskirt.blogspot.com/ Every Friday I feature a fellow crafter. I would love to feature you and this project in an upcoming Friday. If you are interested please let me know toocraftyformyskirt@hotmail.com
These turned great. Tutorial is fab. I posted it over on my FB