Monday, 12 September 2011

Bottle top/cap jewellry/embellishment tutorial

Materials you will need:
- bottle tops/caps
- a hammer
- a hard piece of wood
- a knife
- something to make a whole on the bottle top/cap (in case you want to make a pendant, as an example)
- Glossy accents


Instructions:
Bash the jag edges outwards (anticlockwise direction) and then flatten the whole bottle cap as flat as possible on both sides. Then, take out the plastic in the middle and clean the bottle top/cap (bottle tops/caps tend to be very sticky). See photos below:







Tip 1:
Remove one of  the plastic middles intact. Cut out the inner ring in it. Now you can use this circle as your guide to centre your images in the middle. Also, this circle will give you the exact measure of the circle  you need to cut out.



Tip 2:
Most of the images you cut out are probably on thin paper. If you try to glue them to the bottle tops/caps they will crinckle up completely and the final result will be ugly. What I do is I glue all the circles onto a thick piece of cardstock with double-sided sticky tape. You then need to cut out the images again.





Tip 3:
Use a fast drying glue for paper to attach the images to the bottle caps. Let them dry. Then apply a coat of glossy accents. Let the images dry overnight. And there you have it, beautiful pendants or embellishements for your cards, scrapbooking, etc.

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