Potion Bottle Tips and Tricks : Easy Prop Potions : Harry Potter : Halloween : Color Changing Potion

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  @irish2448365 · 3 years ago · pinned

  Great Tips!! Love your potions! :_potion::_cauldron::_bottle::_mortar:

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• GA

  @gargoyleb · 2 years ago

  In beer, there is wisdom. In wine, there is truth. In water, there is bacteria. - Benjamin Franklin

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• KY

  @Kyleology · 3 years ago

  "For me, I do prefer the alcohol."

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  @gordonhensley432 · 3 years ago

  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.

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  @fenrisnihilus3675 · 1 year ago

  id suggest warming the bottle up a bit before adding the cork. when it's cooling down itll pull on the cork and tighten the fit even more

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• DO

  @doriazgh2000 · 3 years ago (edited)

  Professor Snape would’ve been proud✨

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• ME

  @meme-du8xj · 1 year ago

  I've used cork corks for years and have had no evaporation. My theory: if you have evaporation, your cork isn't in far enough. Think of all the wine bottles that sit for years.

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• AR

  @araneljones · 3 years ago

  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.

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• LI

  @lithitbzh · 3 years ago

  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.

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• MN

  @Mnkose999 · 3 years ago

  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

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  @serus8706 · 1 year ago

  What in the world. I was looking through different websites, trying to find a way to permanently suspend mica powder (trying to make these for the first time ever), and found this video and stayed for the entire thing! Thanks for all the information, and you dedication to the art. Much appreciated  🙏

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• PA

  @PaintersDaughterNet · 1 year ago

  “You’ll find your cork tries to leave” 😂

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