Handmade Christmas Gift Ideas - Glass Bottle Picture Frames

I found these great recycled glass bottle picture frames for today's project in my ongoing series for handmade Christmas-gift-a-day ideas at Rachel's LinesAcrossMyFace. The tutorial link is here.

She shows very specifically how to use Word to size and re-size the photos. She tells exactly how and when to insert them into the bottles, and gives ideas of bottle fillers.

What I loved about them is that she used coffee drink bottles, recycling them. I am looking through all the bottles I typically use that have smooth surfaces and are an inch or more across the mouth opening.

I'm thinking that some Christmas-y colored fillers would be cute for the holidays, or you could just make them using the fillers she suggests and the recipients would be able to display them all year long.

Rachel shows them as single photos, but I see nothing wrong with a group family or household photo that would need to be gently twirled to see everything in the pic.

I highly encourage readers to always go to the tute links, first, before trying any of these projects simply from the photos. The folks who share these also share the results of any mistakes they made along the way and this will save you, too, lots of trial and error.

This is a great alternative to those Christmas letters - take a break from them this year. These would be better for local gifts because you wouldn't have to worry about shipping and breakage.

For other projects in my series, just look along the right sidebar for the label "Christmas Gift Projects." I hope to post only tips that do not require knitting, crocheting, machine sewing, tatting, embroidery, or any other skilled technique.