dark academia decor: specimen jars & apothecary bottles
In this episode we will be creating specimen and apothecary jars to display your arcane curios and eldritch potions. These jars are a quick and easy craft perfect for halloween, but they can also be displayed year round to give your desk or workshop a foreboding, dark academian elegance.
I’ll be going through what materials I use for specimens, the labeling process, how I distress the jars, and how I assemble everything to be aesthetically pleasing.
📍 Time Stamps:
00:00 intro
00:09 jars and specimens used
02:02 label content creation and aging process
04:54 jar cleaning/distressing
06:40 assembly
10:26 fake blood preparation
12:31 labeling the jars & sealing the lids
16:03 final reveal
✋ Materials
COFFEE GROUNDS: for everything
Specimens: dollar tree grow toys and plastic skeleton
Fake blood: chocolate sauce, corn starch, red food coloring, coffee ground
Misc: Jars, acrylic paint, candle wax, twine, brown paper bag, mod podge
✍️ Here are some of the fonts I used for my labels:
www.hplhs.org/resources.php#f...
www.dafont.com/carbontype.font
www.dafont.com/blackletter-ha...
www.dafont.com/berylium.font
www.dafont.com/top-secret-sta...
www.dafont.com/tell-us-pangai...
🧙 Having trouble coming up with fictional names of people and places? Here’s a nifty name generator I used for the content of my labels:
www.fantasynamegenerators.com
✨ If you like squishies, here’s another channel: tinyurl.com/436zfvwy
🌹 If you like digital portraits, here’s an insta: / qlotum6
Пікірлер: 30
Oh my goodness!!! Being a Field BIOLOGIST and having worked at a Lab to put myself through college, I have to tell you how ABSOLUTELY PERFECT your specimen labels are! I LOVE LOVE LOVE everything about them! The verbiage, the Latin! The tamper tape seal! I love all of it! They’re near authentic...I love how unethical! 😂 You should see some of the labels on specimens I collected from the OR. Yikes. Or how they refer to the date of death of a human as...EXPIRATION DATE. Sooo, are you a chemist, or a crazy person? 😂 😉 JK! Bravo! You should be proud!
@nightcrafts4447
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for your kind words! It's lovely to find a kindred spirit who appreciates those smaller details! 🥰
this is so underrated I LOVE THIS SO MUCH TYSM
@nightcrafts4447
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much! I’m glad you enjoyed it and hope to continue making more videos! 💚
These are absolutely awesome. I worked in biology research for 8 years plus was a science technician in a high school so these kinds of jars really conjure up the smell of formalin! So many brilliant ideas and your labels are so creative and just brilliant . I also very much here for the coffee grinds (she says as she's drinking coffee at 10pm - LOL) :-) Definitely subscribing
Fantastic! These look so great. I would only add a little tea stain to the labels. They look much newer than the rest of the bottle.
This video is amazing! I instantly followed!
@nightcrafts4447
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much!!
these are master mind ideas and so easy to do
This is glorious! I love how dedicated you are to this project. Also, the sickly yellow flickering light behind the skeleton jar at the end really makes it special!
@nightcrafts4447
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for noticing and appreciating my extra touches - you are too kind!
Amazing! Love your art and your ideas!
Great ideas. Oh hint, to take off the label glue take some used cooking oil with equal amount of baking soda mix and then cover the glue and let sit for about 30 min. Then wash with soap and hot water. It has always worked for me.
@nightcrafts4447
Жыл бұрын
This is excellent to know - thank you!
Im impressed the jargong is spot on
Great video, love this ideas
@nightcrafts4447
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much - that means a lot to hear!
Fabulous! I love the labels and wax especially! Another aging option is glue and cinnamon. Makes it brown and crusty.
@nightcrafts4447
Жыл бұрын
This is a great idea - I'll have to incorporate this technique!
@DreamingCatStudio
Жыл бұрын
@@nightcrafts4447 The added benefit is that it smells good! ☺️
Delightful! So happy to have found you! Subscribed and commencing binge watching now. Thank you for sharing!
@nightcrafts4447
2 жыл бұрын
I'm glad you found this channel - thank you for your support!!
You can use the inside of an old highlighter so the bottle will glow in the dark.
@nightcrafts4447
2 жыл бұрын
That's a great idea!
How are these holding up?
@nightcrafts4447
2 жыл бұрын
Overall, holding up well! I have a few jars I made from 2019 with grow toys and the grow-sponges have expanded more and soaked up more water, but it doesn't detract from the desired aesthetic IMO. The other specimens have not changed as far as I can tell :)
@BlueSkys23
2 жыл бұрын
@@nightcrafts4447 Oh good! My brain was like “what if mold?”
@nightcrafts4447
2 жыл бұрын
@@BlueSkys23 That is a good point! No visible mold, but I don't plan on opening the jars to quantitatively assess! For these jars, I used diluted bleach water, not sure if this is necessary, though.