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   Magic potion ingredient labels Posted by Chica 
October 15, 2012 
Chica
 

While trying to come up with some new decorating ideas for Halloween this year, I was inspired by the idea of magic potions that wizards and witches use in their spells. Any good potion is made up of some fantastical ingredients, so I thought I’d made some fun labels that celebrate those ingredients in style. I decided to go with a look that was based on vintage apothecary labels. And here they are, in a helpful download-and-print format for ya!

magic potion ingredient labels Download our Magic Potion Ingredient Labels

I printed a few copies of the labels onto sheets of sticker paper. To get various sizes of labels, I used my printer options to increase and decrease the scale when printing. Then I wandered around my house and found a bunch of bottles and vials to use.

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Then all I had to do was cut the labels out and stick them onto the bottles. So little effort for such a big impact, don’t you think?

magic potion ingredient labels

It was pretty fun to find things to fill the bottles with, too. Can you guess what the “eye of newt” is? It’s some of the silica gel I use to dehydrate flowers. And that “witch’s blood” is a bottle of maple syrup I had in the pantry. I just soaked it in water to remove the existing label and added a new one. I love it!

Soaking that label gave me another fun idea for how to use labels, particularly the ones for liquid ingredients. I grabbed a few of My Honey’s beers from the fridge and replaced the labels with my own. What a funky and cool addition these custom bottle labels would be to a grown-up Halloween party!

magic potion ingredient labels

7 comments so far:

  1. Theresa in Kitimat said: (October 15th, 2012 at 9:33 am)

    These are such fun labels. Thank you for sharing.

  2. Deb said: (October 15th, 2012 at 1:05 pm)

    Was at Target yesterday and they had Halloween label kits for beer for sale. Can’t recall the price, but I remember that it was outrageous! Thanks for sharing these.

  3. Chica said: (October 15th, 2012 at 1:26 pm)

    So glad we could save you some money, Deb!

  4. Casey said: (October 15th, 2012 at 4:15 pm)

    LOVE, LOVE, LOVE these – how much fun we’re gonna have!!! Thanks so VERY much for sharing – you’re the best!

  5. Rae Higgins said: (October 15th, 2012 at 11:00 pm)

    Love this! Thanks so much! May I have your permission to pin this to my Free Printables – Halloween board?

  6. Chica said: (October 16th, 2012 at 7:21 am)

    Rae, we love it when people pin our stuff to Pinterest, so please do!

  7. Leslie said: (October 17th, 2012 at 12:10 pm)

    Too cute!

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