We hope this tutorial will be useful for you and will inspire you to create such a cute gentleman in a hat. So, what we need in our work:
- a bottle of any champagne
- black bias tape (6 meters)
- white bias tape (20 cm will be enough)
- scissors
- glue
- narrow contrasting ribbon (mine is dark red)
- rosette made from ribbons of the same color
- mother-of-pearl semi-pearls
- a narrow plastic cap with a diameter equal to the diameter of the bottle neck
- there is also tape in the photo (I planned to use it to attach the cylinder to the brim of the hat, but it was not needed)
- cardboard
All materials are prepared, so let's get started.
Let's start with the fact that we need to remove the label from the bottle. To do this, leave the bottle in cold water overnight. The next morning you will remove the label in one motion and you will have a clean bottle.
Let's now dress our groom. Let's start with an imitation shirt. Take white bias tape, cut off a length sufficient to fit around the neck of the bottle and glue it on. I use Moment glue.
We repeat the procedure and glue the second layer of white bias tape, slightly overlapping the first. It turned out to be a white shirt.
Now we do the same thing only with black bias tape, creating an imitation of a black suit.
We gradually go lower until the bottle is level.
When the bottle is already flat, there is no need to cut the bias tape; we wrap the bottle with bias tape and secure it with glue on the back side.
Our groom is dressed. Photo from the back.
Let's start with the hat. Cut out a circle from cardboard. The internal diameter is equal to the diameter of the bottle neck minus 2 mm. I plan to increase the height of our groom at the expense of the hat, so I will not put it on the groom, but glue it on top (therefore I make the diameter smaller so that the hat does not fall through, but remains on top of the neck). If you want to literally put a hat on the neck of a bottle, then add a few millimeters to the diameter of the bottle neck and get the size of the inner circle. Because the cylinder has narrow margins, then the outer diameter of our cardboard circle is 2 cm larger than the inner one.
Don't be alarmed if the edges aren't very smooth. This will not be visible.
We wrap the brim of our cylinder with black bias tape, leaving a small section free. Don't forget to glue everything down well.
As I already said, I will not put the cylinder on the bottle, because... I want to make the groom taller. Therefore, I put the margins on top of the neck of the bottle and fix them with glue. For additional fixation, I glue on top of the neck the free edge of the bias tape that we prudently left.
There's just a little bit left to do. Make a cylinder. To do this, I found a plastic cap from one of the cosmetics. The diameter of the cap matches the diameter of the bottle neck. I wrap it with bias tape.
And I glue it to the brim of the hat.
To decorate the hat, I glue a contrasting narrow ribbon at the base of the hat.
I create imitation buttons using white semi-pearls. I securely fix them with glue on the groom's suit.
Where would we be without a boutonniere? I take a rose from ribbons of the same color that I used to decorate the hat and glue it onto the groom’s chest.
It seems like something else is missing... Butterflies! I take black bias tape and fold it in two layers. I wrap it in the middle with black thread. I glue it to the groom's shirt.
I decorate the butterfly with a white half-pearl.
Our groom is ready!
Back view.
