Potion Bottle Tips and Tricks : Easy Prop Potions : Harry Potter : Halloween : Color Changing Potion
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- Today I am answering your most commonly asked questions, as well as giving you some tips and tricks for making perfect Prop potion bottles! Easy potion bottles are a staple in Halloween decor and can transport you into the Wizarding World! These tips will make Potion Making Easy!
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Great Tips!! Love your potions!
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I have been collecting potion bottles and creating potion art for 20 years. I have over 1000 bottles. I coat my cheap corks on the inward side with Flex Seal (liquid rubber) before sealing the bottle. It helps fill in irregularities in the cork surface. I could use wine bottle quality corks, but they are too expensive to bother with, and the sizes of my bottles are not all the same as wine bottles. Carving cork is time-consuming and messy. (I have more money invested in corks than I do in thrift and craft store bottles.) Straight-neck bottles seal better for liquids. Bottles with an inside lip, (like vases,) are nearly impossible to fully seal, so I use them for dry ingredients, herbs, and powders. I don't use rubber corks because I'm going for the ancient-looking pre-technology wizard vibe.
I'm so happy we're sharing cork stats for potions like they did in the medieval eras😂 Feels ironic we're re learning everything they had to learn
That's what happens when things become too automated and we become too far removed from daily survival skills. @@BonusDuckie
@@aniyahlyszt3531 Cork making and alchemy is already the automation of something. no relation with survival skills, this is craftmanship
imagine a website where you could choose the type of bottle, liquid, swirl or not, color, label, seal etc all that in a graphic animation like a video game where its us, little apprentice making the potion in a apothecary laboratory. and at the end when you have completed the potion you can buy it and its ship to you in a cool cardboard package printed with theme for the product (like a old crate or something like that). It requires probably a lot of work and developing the thing would cost a lot but i'm sure the idea could make a lot of money.
I'll do it with you 😂 this is GENIUS
Finally! I've been wanting to decorate my shelves with mini potion bottles for so long, but every recipe is different and none of them explained why they made their choices different. I feel more comfortable using my limited resources now that I know what is actually going on. Tysm
Yay! I’m so glad I could help! 😊
This is my first video to watch on how to do potion bottles and I don’t know how I got so lucky. This was awesome. Thank you so much!!
Glad I could help!
Professor Snape would’ve been proud✨
Yea
I don't know why it happened but I can say that I stumbled across your channel a few weeks ago and I've ben absorbing your videos like a sponge since then. You inspired me to start doing potions myself even though I never did anything that has to do with crafting or DIY before. Thanks to your videos my boring and grey home is slowly turning to becoming more colorful and aesthetically interesting. Thank you very much for your hard work! It really did a difference for me!
Awwww that’s great, thank you! I’m glad I could help!
I haven't been through comments yet, but I'd like to share a tip I use. When changing colors in your glue gun, you can use up that waste glue by making seals. Just put a daub of glue on a silicone mat or parchment paper and immediately press with a metal seal. Let it cool enough to touch and pop it off. Now you have a faux seal that can be painted and glued on ribbon or paper with a tiny touch of hot glue later. No wasted glue! I also collect my glue scraps and waste drops to remelt later for sculpting with a junk mini iron used only for that purpose.
Also, do you have labels available for sake as stickers rather than downloads? Lots of folks don't have printers or (like myself) are lazy. I'd love to support a fellow artist and be able to throw more paying customers your way!
Thank you for taking the time to share and teach us your secrets so that I can truly make some beautiful potion bottles.
This is a really good idea! Thanks for sharing! ❤
I found a random DIY potion bottle at a Goodwill one day. I decided to buy it because it was so beautiful. It’s a mana potion that is clear at first with blue mica powder. I love the iridescent look as well when I mix it. It also has a beautiful silvery wax seal on top. It inspired me to make my own potions. I’m happy to have come across your channel, detailing how to make them. I really appreciate it!
Idk how this video came up on my suggestions but I'm so glad it did! This has to be the most thorough, well explained tutorial/tips diy video I've ever seen. You explain everything in a way I immediately want to try it myself
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Yay! 😊 Thank you!
Thank you so much for sharing all your tips and tricks! And FREE potion labels! I found this super helpful, and am gradually growing my potion collection. 🧙🏼♀️
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Smalltongue brand Mica powder is also very affordable and great. They have a 72 color box for $25 with shipping
Great tips, thank you so much!! I really appreciate your generosity with supplying free labels. That is incredibly kind of you to share your artistic talent with us. 😁💗👍
Thanks Julie!! 😊💜
Thanks so much for this video. I've been wanting to make potion decorations for halloween. I've never made them before, so I was having trouble trying to find a video with an indepth explantion on how to make them.
You do an amazing job. I’ve been collecting glue guns, sealing wax and all the stuffs. You’ve made this super fun. Thanks for all you do. I don’t know if it would work for this or maybe it could be an idea for something else - but I’d like to see a viewing potion. Like when the evil queen in Enchanted could look in water or any liquid and see into another dimension. 🤷🏻♀️ Just a thought! 😊
Oooo interesting I’ll have to think about that!
Maybe mirror shards in it or something reflective?
@@lantialily8696 Good thinking. Broken glass bits on the outside…? Unless there were things suspended in hair gel.
Just watched your video and found it amazingly helpful! I didn't even think to dye the water! Thank you for making this, and I'm gonna go and watch more of your videos!
Incredibly kind of you to share your potion bottle secrets 😍🌟🌟👏🏻
i'm going to start my own potion business and this was extremely informational to help me get started on how to make my potions so thank you!
Love draught /scorpion venom /unicorn blood
Incredible!
I've never found one individual, one soul, that is more passionate about potion bottles than myself...!!!
Thank you for that ....I'm so appreciative !!!!!
Awww thank you! 😊💜
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience with potion making! I especially loved the info about micas- appreciative. Oh ps Amortetia in the wizarding world is bright pink, maybe love potion 😍
I love every single one of your DIY’s!! Thank you so much for the beautiful gift ideas ❤
"For me, I do prefer the alcohol."
Girl, you just made my day!!! Thanks a lot for this video. I loved it. ❤
Thanks so much for this informative video. My sisters and I are going to make potions as a fun girl's day out project, now I feel better equipped to try this craft out.
Yay! Have fun!!
I saw a really cool Instagram video that showed a storm themed one and now I want to make it myself lol! Thanks for the tips
I watched this video and I wanted to let you know that I was able to make my own. It was an amazing project for my kids. They really loved it.
Oh yay!! I’m so glad! 😊💜
Thank you so much for the way you made this video the information u gave for all your choices and reasons was extremely helpful as I've made different potion bottles in the past (I'm obsessed) u helped me why giving me clear answers as to why I've had complications and then u gave me a new option of how to fix it or use a better product or instructions. Thankyou thankyou can't wait to watch more of you content and also thank you for linking where I can buy things u use too x much love keep crafting x
😊 glad I could help! 💜
Maybe someone already asked this but where do you buy the bottels? I can’t seem to find them.
Your work is awesome by the way! 😍 Thank you for sharing with us!
@@saskiahogeboom9675 I get most of my bottles from Michael’s and Hobby Lobby but I also use recycled food and liquor bottles, or bottles from antique stores. 😊
This is so informative! I owe you the world, I’m doing a potion table fora Halloween party and I was just going to do water!
I recommend using the blue painter's low tack masking tape to hold your corks in place when glueing them to your potion bottles 🌮🤓👍
Thank you for posting this! im definietly going to give it a go. Im a huge Halloween buff and im going to try a few. Ty soo much for step by step instruction and what to use. You are amazing.
Thank you! 😊 I’m glad I could help! 🎃
Thank you so much, this is one of the most detailed Tutorials for just everything that includes a Magic Potion. So helpful! Really appreciate it.
Thank you so much for this!!! Using this for a Steampunk Bane Project to make the Venom
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Your potion bottle ideas spark inspiration! Your video confirmed what I had in mind is on the right track.
The supplies I purchased before this video are Dollar Store glitter packs, Styling Gel, and Jut rope/cord. I got my small corked bottles from Michaels at $2.99 each. I had not purchased the coloring yet! I was not sure what would work with the alcohol in hair gel. I had a feeling that the alcohol would strip the color off glitter.
So, I thought I would need to use some sort of alcohol base colors. I'm so happy that I can use food coloring and/or acrylic paint and the potion will not be ruined!
Ooh-wee! I am soo excited. I want to suspend items in my potions like snips and snails and puppy dog tails! I feel like the more viscus the potion, the less likely the mica powder, glitter, or items will settle. I might move away from using clear hair gel (cause it's so cheap) and use the clear name brand school glue to avoid air bubbles.
What I want to replicate most of all is the "Zombie Brain Shot" in a potion bottle. It's a real adult beverage and is supposedly tasty (I don't drink). I don't know if I can replicate the effects without the mediums mixing/dissolving. I like the way the drink jiggles and looks fleshy, very Halloween.
@@tavarshia3122 yay! Have fun making potions! 🧪
I would just use the regular off white color of the hot glue, and paint it
It's funny you mention milk as a glue. I just recently learned that, as far as we know so far, the very first "glue" (as in the "modern concept" of an adhesive) that science has evidence of was used (of course) by the ancient Egyptians, and what do you know? It was milk! Thanks for the video and for your thorough explanations around your decisions, choices and preferences throughout the process.
Unique shaped glass bottles + water + food coloring = how I made my witches/mad scientist lab hybrid last Halloween 😅
The nice part with water verisons is after can be dumped out cleaned out and reused with different colors
This is extremely useful thank you
I made one of these with a dice that floats in it. It's fun for DnD rolls
I would call it Brused Heart
This is the BEST potion making tutorial I have seen!! Very detailed and easy instructions. Thank you for sharing your knowledge ❤
Can you make a video on how you design your labels?
Great tips and great explanation.
Thank you for this video, pretty helpful
This is cool! Thanks for the tips. Been thinking about making a health and mana potion for my gaming corner for a while now. Now I'm feeling confidence in them looking cool.
Quick question, does it matter if it’s 70% alcohol or 99% alcohol? Like for a higher concentration do I need to mix it with water? Or I can just use the 99% alone just fine? Thanks!
It doesn’t matter. You could definitely add water if you want to but you can use any percentage of alcohol. 😊
Cool diy’s! However, I think your supplies are going to cost me some money! ALL WORTH IT! Great job!
Thank you so much for all the amazing information! New sub 💜💜
Hmm. Perhaps phoenix blood? It could be an ingredient in a healing draught. Have you ever tried making bottle harnesses? I made one for my phoenix ash bottle so I could wear it on the belt of my earth mage costume. I essentially made a cage from strips of black leather, leaving one end long so I could loop it back on itself to make the belt loop.
I have made bottles with clips but not a full harness. I might have to do that.
You are such a help! I love crafting and creating but I get discouraged very quickly. Your video's have been so thorough and informative that I actually feel like I will rock it! Thank you so much 🥰🥰 Keep up the great work! You are helping so many people, more than you know!
Oh yay! Thank you so much! 😊 You will rock this, have fun! 💜
Thank you for this amazing video! ❤❤❤❤
I’ve been potion making for like 6 months and I’m always still learning new stuff! Thank you so much for all your videos !! Love them!
Hello. I got 2 questions. Can I use anything other than mica powder? And, can I use baby oil instead of alcohol? I'm worried about the alcohol melting the plastic bottle. (This looks cool, and I was thinking about it all day because I wanna make a knick knack prop of my recent favorite gothic horror. I want it to last for years, until it breaks from me being clumsy)
Baby oil does not take color, so I don’t recommend it. You can use metallic acrylic paint instead of mica powder. I would use distilled water with a tiny bit of glycerin for your plastic bottles.
@@CookingandCraftChick thank you so much! ❤
I love the colour of this potion & when it changes colour. I thought you could call it Instant Mind Reading Potion. What do you think ?
That might be a good one!
I just bought an ice tea and it came in a cool bottle that I thought would be great for a potion. Never made one before so I checked some tutorials, yours are literally the best I've seen so far. Thank you, I know my party will like them. ❤
Thank you! Have fun! 💜🧪
your potions are always outstanding !!
Thank you Elizabeth! 💜
Gracias infinitas te has tomado el tiempo y la buena voluntad. Valiosa información. Éxitos para tu vida!
Very helpful. Thank you.
How do you keep them from leaking out if you ship them?
This looks like a love spell or something romantic like that. Love this video, it was exactly what I was looking for!
Glad to hear I could help! 😊
@@CookingandCraftChick I do have a question... I looked through your videos and do think I saw a potion that looks... bubbly i guess it the word. Idk if you could use baby oil to get the effect or not but I know I want to make a potion like that. Do you have any videos on that?
@@misty-rosemorris8622 I’ve played with baby oil, I’ve never got the bubbly effect I hoped for. I have used the bubbly styling gel in several potions. I have tested but haven’t made a video yet where you use water beads in the potion and that adds a different effect. You can also check out beguiling bubbles where I used vase filler or beads to add bubbles. I hope that helps. 😊
@@CookingandCraftChick thank you so much! It definitely helps. I'll just do some trial and error and play around to see what I can come up with. Thank you for all your help and inspiration! You are a gem!
Great idea to use and keep the little bottles as samples so you can remember the best mixes! Thanks for all the great ideas!!! Ive got loads of random bottles just waiting to be filled with magic!!
WOW!! I just found your channel. I've been wanting to make potion bottles for awhile. Thank you so much for all the information. Where do you get your bottles??
I get a lot of my bottles from Michael's craft store and Hobby Lobby as well. But I pick bottles up from wherever I see ones I like; so Target, Antique stores, seasonal sections of stores, in the grocery aisles you name it.
Use Rubbing Alcohol+Distilled water
Use Rubber Corks
Color with alcohol ink/food coloring
Metallic Paint or Mica Powder
rubbing alcohol evaporates over time. I made tiny potions with rubbing alcohol, and in a few months, the alcohol had evaporated away. So there's got to be a way to seal the bottles so that the alcohold doesn't evaporate. I used wax, glue, and E6000. Nothing helped.
Rubber corks help a lot.
If you’re making really tiny potions maybe do the distilled water with glycerin. Where they are kept, will help or hinder your potions as well. If it is in a warmer room with sunlight, you will get way more evaporation than a cooler, room temperature room with hardly any sunlight.
The color-shifting ones, in particular, are so beautiful. Thank you for simplifying this into easy steps, and for sharing your labels.
thanks for the help. I just made 2 potion bottles props from the book their based off on.
What I discovered is its hard to use metalic paint because of the extra ingredients. Since they both used mica powder, I bought some from etsy (warning, one of the sellers says its "5g" but its way too small to be 5 grams).
Then after searching online, I found out that home depot also sells rubber corks, however they only come in black (Which is fine for me. Because its an victorian era potion bottle. I didn't use the twine method).
I did the distilled water and the oil you mentioned too.
So yeah, I'm happy with how they turned out! I made 2 to put on my shelf. I decided to use a glass bottle of the science beaker from Michaels in the Halloween section for the one on the shelf, another is an small plastic bottle I can use for an Halloween costume and not worry about it breaking.
Thanks for the help!
I'm pretty sure my glue gun was the issue.... Will regroup and finish the bottles with a new one. But I loved seeing the rope wrapping technique slowed down again. I can't wait to share my success this time. 😂
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Wow this video is so helpful! May I ask a question? My bottle have its own cap made from metal (I guess). Should I use it or replace with a cork?
@@Rn-et3vy you should be good 👍
Best video in the world? Best video in the world.
Love this!
Distilled water
Rubbing Alcohol or Glycerin few drops
Rubber cork 6:12
Liquid food coloring
Jel food coloring+ warm water
Acrylic paint with base color
Metallic Acrylic paint
Micro powder???
This is an amazing work! Thanks for the tips and guide :) PS: Where you get the bottles?
Everywhere 😊 craft stores, recycled food and liquor bottles, antique stores you name it.
@@CookingandCraftChick Thank you for answer! 😊
Your channel is amazing, as are you're DIYs and Potion Bottles. Keep shining! ✨🤍🍾
Thank you! 😊💜
Those are very pretty, I really like the bottles! Where do you get the bottles at?
How about “Dragon’s Blood” for a name? Absolutely adore this video! So much information in a well presented and professional manner. Found you by accident, but am now subscribed and eager to view all your videos and try out all your super cool techniques. Thank You so much for sharing with all of us. May the Universe smile kindly upon you.
beautiful potions and I love the way you explained everything, down to the glue guns :) thank you!
You’re welcome! Glad I could help!! 😊
Great tutorial!!! Can you make the whole potion bottle with just rubbing alcohol?
Yes
Great tips!
Looking to make some prototypes of my own thanks for the in depth explanation especially why you would choose IPA over glycerin. I think I'm going to try an experiment of one pure IPA, and one half water and glycerin to see the difference side by side. I love the reminder about flammability in the IPA though!
So excited to start making my own potions, collecting all your recommended products now. THANK YOU!
Iv been putting aside bottles and wanting to do this for years. I am glad you demystified the using water, demineralized water vs alcohol. I can fix my Nightmare Before Christmas water globe now! if I can get it open! I will use demineralized water and glycerine. And repaint Jack since he is peeling.
Thanks for this tutorial. Its really expensive to get supplies in Canada but when you know what you need vs experimenting it saves a lot.
I tried making my own body spray with mica and it failed. Now I know you can’t use regular water or 50% alcohol. I might salvage spray with mica by pouring liquid out and putting glycerine demineralized water in it instead.
Thank you! I accidentally made a metallic black version of this from rinsing my brushes, saved a vial and haven't been able to figure out the proportions to get it again.
Have you tried heating the bottle /liquid, like canning to pull in the corke in when cooled to help with evaporation? Seems like it might...
I do believe this would help too.
I literally only looked up how to make a potion bottle bc I got a cool liquor bottle I wanted to use. You gave me every single tip and trick and more than I could have asked for! I'm so excited to make my first potion!! But what to make..... ❤❤❤
❤ Love Potion # 9
You go into such detail- this is so helpful.
I've been trying to make some summery Christmas snow-globes (just for family, no financial incentive here). I bought some gear to make regular wintery globes but it's hot here in Australia in December so I wanted to do something with sand and blue sea type liquids. I'm going to trawl your channel to see what else I can find. I realise you're making potions but have you ever tried some hot region 'snow' (or 'sand') globes? I'll be using old jars with lids as I'll need to glue in some trees, tiny decorations or characters at the bottom of the jar- that is, glued to the lid so when the jar is upside the character will be standing up.
I'd also love to add some colour to my oil lamps (made with used bottles). Do you have any idea of what effect it will have to add either food colouring or mica powders to the oil? Will this cause a major fire incident???
Your summery snow globes sound fun! 😊
As far as your oil lamps go don’t use food coloring (most of it is water based) however some non water based coloring might work, the mica should be fine 😊
@@CookingandCraftChick I've got plenty of alcohol inks too so I might try that and see if it's safe. Thanks for your help.
Hello! Have you ever added glitter that has shapes? Such as bats, moons, etc.? Does it work? I don’t want to risk messing it up lol
@@elizabethalland2262 it should. I’ve added extra fine glitter to my Christmas Chronicles Potions anc larger glitter to my calming draught.
When the color shift happens on this potion it makes me think of something Ursula from little mermaid might make. It could be. Unfortunate Souls elixir
Thanks I made some really cute shimmery Panera bread drink key chains for my friend with these tips. 🥺🖤 I know that's oddly specific but it's her favorite get up and go drink.
Cute! Glad I could help!
Very helpful video. I'm just starting out and really needed something comprehensive and including basics. Thank you!
How do you make your labels? I am trying to create my own but I have no idea how/what platform to use. Do you use a tablet? Thanks!
I design my labels in photoshop. 😊
Maybe Dragón’s blood
Fantastic video, absolutely covers everything I need for the gifts I'm making! Really appreciate the tips for sourcing supplies and the hugely important safety tips too, would really have hated to have fire starters sitting around the corners of my friends and family's houses!
What materials do you use inside of the potions (ie the bead looking things)? We are going to do this at our carer's craft group and some of them (we have already made labels to use) sound like they could use some 'pieces' in them (beetle eyes, crow toes)
Much appreciate the time you took to carefully explain each step and why different options work the way they do!
I’ve used just plastic beads, or vase filler (check dollar tree) then anything else plastic will work in the liquids really well like plastic bugs, etc. 😊
@@CookingandCraftChick I did not even consider plastic bugs! What a fabulous idea.
Hydrogen peroxide also works! I grabbed the wrong bottle🤦♀️😂
When I was a kid I would use skittles and wash all the dye off and it would leave me with kinda a dirty color that really liked well:)
Love your video! Trying to do something like this for my classroom last minute. It would be my dream potion. I was wondering if I should do this method which is way cooler, but I’m worried about evaporation. Then I thought about just normal color sand and pretend the sand is a potion. What are your insights on evaporation? I was hoping to make a keepsake that would last for how long they want to keep it for. Thanks!
If you use a rubber cork the alcohol really doesn’t evaporate as long as it’s not a hot or sunny room. I’ve had some of mine for 5 years and they still look good. You could also opt for the distilled water and a drop or 2 of glycerin or a little alcohol. If you’re really concerned with evaporation don’t seal your cork down you can always add alcohol or water to it. I hope this helps! 😊 🧪
What about an old whiskey bottle with a cap? Would that be safe you think? We decorate the bar behind the gas stove for Halloween, and we have a smoker in the house. I tried water and highlighters in the bottle before but it got nasty, so I wanted to try again.
@@amandabrown2410 yes it’s definitely safe. 👍