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DIY Valentine’s Bottle Lights – To Brighten Your Home

I can’t get enough of those cork wine bottle lights. I have one set that I use all year round. Now that it’s coming to February, I’ve made some Valentine’s bottle lights with them.

I love to light up my mantle on these dark winter nights with lights. One of the easiest ways to do this is with upcycled bottle lights. I put the Christmas bottle lights away with the rest of the Christmas decorations a couple of weeks ago.

The mantle looked a bit bare, so I thought I’d make more seasonal lights, this time for Valentine’s day.

My birthday falls on Valentine’s day, so I like to decorate the home for this holiday as I also feel I’m decorating for myself.

Valentine’s decorations also add a bit of cheer to the home during the dark winter months, especially if they involve lights.

This is a very affordable upcycled Valentine’s craft. I used empty bottles left over from the festive Christmas drinks, and cork lights are very cheap. I have been using the same cork lights for a couple of years.

cork wine bottle lights

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What You Need

  • Old glass bottles – I used some cute small Gin cocktail bottles I had leftover from Christmas. Any clear glass bottle will do.
empty gin cocktail bottles
foam heart stickers

How To Make Valentine’s Bottle Lights

Step 1: The first thing to do is to wash the bottles in hot soapy water and remove all labels.

washed bottles

Step 2: Then, randomly stick Valentine’s foam stickers on each bottle. I liked to use hearts of assorted sizes.

putting stickers on the bottles

Step 3: Once the bottles are covered with enough stickers, paint them. I spray-painted two bottles red and two bottles pink.

Red and pink are the two colours I associate with this holiday and would be suitable for Valentine’s bottle lights. (For the Halloween holiday, I spray painted my bottles black and orange.)

spray painting the Valentine's bottle

Step 4: Once the paint on the bottles has completely dried, carefully peel off the foam stickers. If the stickers don’t come off quickly, try soaking the bottles in hot water first.

Peeling off the stickers from the Valentine's bottle lights

Step 5: Next, to make Valentine’s bottle lights look more festive, I covered the top of the cork wine bottle lights with tape.

Wrap the plastic cork on top of the lights with some tape printed with hearts or another Valentine’s design.

covering the cork bottle lights with tape

Finally, all left to do is pop a cork bottle light into the top of each bottle and switch them on.

I like to make a group of these Valentine’s bottle lights and display them together.

Valentine's bottle lights
valentine's bottle lights
upcycled Valentine's bottle lights

These Valentine’s bottle lights aren’t the only illuminated Valentine’s decorations I have made. Check out these other festive light decorations.

String art neon heart sign: Another very affordable Valentine’s decoration to brighten the mantle.

How about these fun heart string lights? These are made with sharpies and shrink plastic—a fun Valentine’s craft for the kids.

String heart lights

Check out these other upcycled Valentine’s crafts and DIYs for the home.

valentines crafts

Or how about some gorgeous vintage Valentine’s images to print?

These Valentine bottle lights featured under B in my A to Z of clever upcycling ideas.

Jenny Withrow

Saturday 23rd of January 2021

Love the ideas and appreciate the images available to download plus the history you rock all bases covered Xoxo Jenny Marie

Claire Armstrong

Saturday 23rd of January 2021

Thank you so much, that is lovely to hear.

Cynthia

Sunday 26th of January 2020

So cute, thanks for linking up at the Happiness is Homemade Link Party. Come back next week.

Claire Armstrong

Monday 27th of January 2020

Thank you, I will be back.

Ann

Friday 24th of January 2020

Very cute! Thank you for sharing at Party In Your PJ's.

Claire Armstrong

Friday 24th of January 2020

Thank you I love visiting every week.

Jerri

Thursday 23rd of January 2020

Great project. I love the process. Thanks for joining us for Friday Favorites. I'm featuring you this week.

Claire Armstrong

Friday 24th of January 2020

Thank you, that’s awesome I look forward to seeing it.

creativejewishmom.com

Thursday 23rd of January 2020

Another great project Claire! Little string lights are such a great addition to our crafting projects.....not so many here in Israel, but they are finally appearing, and I see that Ikea has some so....... Thanks for sharing in craft schooling sunday!

Claire Armstrong

Thursday 23rd of January 2020

Thank you. The lights are a lovely way to decorate your home especially during the shorter winter days.