How to add curve modifier to text? I am relatively new to blender and am trying to wrap some text around a hair spray bottle that I made.  I have watched many tutorials on how to do it, but it never seems to work.  I am trying to wrap my text around the cylindrical part of the bottle with the curve modifier, but am running into troubles.  When I select the bottle with the selection within the curve modifier, I get a "failed to set value" message at the top of my screen.  And then, when I try to apply it, I get the message "modifier is disabled, skipping applied."  Does any one know if there is a setting that I need to change to enable this curve modifier?

Here is a screen shot of my project if it helps:
To use the curve modifer you need to have a curve object.



To create one place the 3d cursor in the same place as your text's origin and press ShiftA to Add->Curve>Bezier Curve.

Select the text and on the curve modifier set the bezier courve as the object to control the distortion for the text.



Editing the curve will allow you to distort and place the text.