Last week I made Phoenix Feathers and as promised, this week we have Phoenix Tears. I really enjoyed making this one, especially the embellishing that is done on the bottle.
Phoenix tears have incredible healing powers. In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Fawkes, Dumbledore’s phoenix, saves Harry by dropping his tears into Harry’s wound from the basilisk.
Ingredients I used:
- Tear Drop Glass Bottle
- Rubber Cork
- Rubbing Alcohol
- Funnel
- Gold Metallic Acrylic Paint
- Jute Twine
- Gold Wire
- Red Glass Beads
- Needlenose Pliers (to manipulate the gold wire)
- Potion Label
The reason why you want to use a rubber cork with this one is because the potion is alcohol based. When alcohol soaks cork material, it can be used as a fire starter. So whenever you make an alcohol based potion, use a rubber cork instead of a regular one.
I couldn’t find a smaller tear drop bottle like C&CC used, but Michael’s had a bunch of the larger tear drop bottles, like I used for the Gillyweed potion, so I used that.
And here is the final product!
See how shimmery the gold metallic paint is here? I love the swirling effect.
Over time the paint does settle, so you will want to give it a good shake every now and again.
Here are the Phoenix Feathers and Tears together:
