Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Dr Potter's Medicine Show

Six weeks.

That's impossible.

SIX! WEEKS!



I recently mentioned the fun I had crafting up stuff for the cool cosplay photo shoot we did a few weeks ago. One of those projects was making up bottles of the Chock-a-saw Sagwa Tonic which is the snake oil/patent medicine/horrible alchemical nightmare from Dr Potter's Medicine Show.


That is diluted Lipton tea in there and not actual laudanum, etc. with a bit of "tobacco for color."

The bottles were purchased from Specialty Bottle and came with those hinged metal, ceramic, and rubber tops. I just pulled the metal out of the holes in the top of the bottle and used corks from my craft stash.



I used modified, free clip art of an old vanilla label, other free clip art, downloaded fonts, and Photoshop to design a printable label. Spray adhesive sticks it to the class, and matte decoupage medium (Martha Stewart brand) waterproofs the ink.



These have been fun to have around the house, too!



2 comments:

  1. You are so dang good at creating labels for these fun projects. I don't have Photoshop but I could probably use PicMonkey. Next time I'm out for a visit you might have to show me how to do this. It makes your crafts so personal and look pretty dam cool.

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    1. Thank you! It's more fiddly than it is difficult and I know there are other programs better suited to text stuff, but this is what I have!

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