A selection of Christmas bottle cap pins, some with just the image, others with Christmas items. The trees, holly, gingerbread men,
stars and snowflakes are in the scrapbook section of any craft store and
inexpensive. The images are free downloads. Take a bottle cap with you
to store for size. Next year, different images and inserts!
Bottle cap items can be wonderful as gifts for all sorts of occasions. A baby shower? Give a bottle cap pin with the photo of the new mom as a baby! Maybe pins for all the attendees! How about making a bunch of Christmas bottle cap ornaments? Give out a bottle cap magnet for a Halloween treat! A project for your child's class? The limit is your imagination.
It's possible to do bottle caps the old
fashioned way, cut out the image with a pair of scissors, recycle used bottle
caps if not bent, glue and then use clear varnish on the top, but most of these
supplies are inexpensive and if you're like me you'll keep coming up with new uses.
Materials (check Beadaholique or Amazon, links are to Amazon, the punch and Glue Dots are available in office and craft stores too):
50Mixed Color Bottle Caps (or collect your own throughout the year and it's FREE)
EK
Success Papers Shapers Nesting Punch 1" (or any brand, as long as 1")
Glue
Dots Super Strength Multi-Use 1/2" dots (or use super glue, but you have to wait longer, however, sometimes the glue dots "let go" after a couple of years)
Images: use
photos, images from magazines and greeting cards, draw your own, stencil, use
stamps, stickers, glue small objects that fit within the 1" circle, there
are inexpensive bottle cap images for sale, or use your imagination!
How to:
Take
your 1" paper circle image and press it against a Glue Dot. Press the
circle into the bottle cap. Place a 1" Circle Epoxy Sticker on top. DONE Then
attach whatever to the back, whether it be a pin back, or hanger for pendants,
or magnet. DONE.
Here's how to attach a pin back (so that the pin is on correctly): Take a piece of paper and line up your bottle caps on the paper with arrows pointing which way the image is up, like this:
Here's how to attach a pin back (so that the pin is on correctly): Take a piece of paper and line up your bottle caps on the paper with arrows pointing which way the image is up, like this:
Then flip over the bottle caps and glue the pins to the back--easy!
Do you have an idea for bottle caps to share?
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