The reaction for most of us when we read the title is to tap ourselves on the forehead and wonder why this idea did not occur to us. This is because bottle
Looking for a fun and easy project idea that you can make using the bottle caps that you've collected? Here's a creative flower art that you can use to decorate your living room or kitchen. Proceed to read down below for the full instructions and watch this video tutorial by My Crazy Life on YouTube.
With ideas for kids and grown-ups.
Winter is here bringing frost, cold (relatively speaking, I live in California), and a garden lacking much in bloom. This time of year, when the color is sparse, I love to spruce things up with a b…
Discover easy to follow, brilliant DIY bottle cap upcycling projects that will make your home look cozy and cute.
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We all know that we need to recycle both glass and plastic bottles, but have you ever asked what can you do with bottle caps? The most common answer for this qu
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DIY Upcycled Plastic Bottle Cap Mosaic. I've seen similar colorful paper coiled art on Pinterest but it seems very time consuming to coil papers so I thought bottle caps would make it an easier project. With the help a a few friends, I saved up enough caps in just a few months! Materials : canvas, caps, large bottle of matte Collage Pouge (found in the decoupage section of craft stores), plastic glue ( I just used my E-6000 glue) and acrylic paints. Tools: X-Acto knife, course sandpaper and an old paint or glue bottle with a pointy tip or you could just use a plastic baggy. First, I sanded the top of the lids and roughed them up with an X-Acto knife to help the caps stick to the canvas. Next, I used a generous portion of the Collage Pouge so it oozed out the sides. You may want to put stack of newspapers under the canvas to prop it up so the canvas wont sag under the weight of the caps. I had a large cap from a jug of protein powder that I just glued underneath for support. I started gluing at the center and worked out. I then filled an old paint bottle that has a pointy tip with the Collage Pouge and squirted the Pouge in all of the spaces to make sure these caps will stay put! (Not sure if this step is totally necessary) You can just fill a plastic baggy with the Pouge and cut a little hole if you don't have a bottle with a pointy tip! If you want to add caps inside of larger caps, use a plastic glue or E-6000. Finally, I filled some of the caps with acrylic paint, the little bottles of paint from craft stores are the right consistency for this. Then I let dry flat for a few days; and I now have a colorful, textured piece of upcycled wall art! Comments welcome! Be sure to check out my eco friendly magnets made from bottle caps!
I was pleased as punch when Jennifer asked me to be a part of the 12 gifts of Christmas blog hop! I was excited to learn I'd be in good company too, just have a look at this line up! Friday, October 14- Jennifer/ Ellison Lane Quilts Saturday, October 15- Ayumi/Pink Penguin Sunday, October 16- Amy/ Lots of Pink Here Monday, October 17- Faith/Fresh Lemons Quilts Tuesday, October 18- Penny/Sew Take a Hike Wednesday, October 19- Kati/From the Blue Chair Thursday, October 20- Lee/Freshly Pieced Friday, October 21- Elizabeth/Don't Call Me Betsy Saturday, October 22- Melanie/Texas Freckles Sunday, October 23- Lindsay/Craft Buds Monday, October 24- Amanda/A Crafty Fox Tuesday, October 25-Vanessa/Little Big Girl Studio Each blog will be posting an awesome gift tutorial, and having a giveaway for a GC to a fabric shop. Make sure and leave a comment on Jennifer's tutorial for a chance to win the grand prize of a $250 GC to the fabric worm! On to the tutorial! I had been saving bottle caps all summer (we drink a lot of Reed's Extra Ginger beer around here. It's non-alcoholic and if you like ginger, you won't be disappointed if you pick some up!) for a trivet, and I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to make sure I actually made something with them instead of well, you know, just having good intentions to make something with them! What you will need: 28 bottle caps 30 mm clover yoyo maker 28 fabric circles approximately 3.25" round (I used 12 pink ones for the points and 16 scrappy ones for the center square) needle and thread and a water soluble pen What you will do: 1. Arrange your bottle caps and choose and cut your fabrics. 2. Using a double threaded needle, make your fabric covered caps by making a yoyo, and right before you cinch your thread and tie your knot, insert the bottle cap right side down into the yoyo. Finish cinching your thread and tie your knot. Make sure you don't pull on the thread too hard, or it might break. Hide the thread tail in the yoyo by reinserting the needle into the same area that the knot is in, and pull the needle through the yoyo edge. Cut the thread close to the yoyo. 3. Lay your bottle caps out in a pleasing manner and mark on the top of the...
I have been collecting beer caps for a looong time. Being a total pack rat, I find myself collecting anything that is colorful, abundant, and has relative similarities between pieces. Beer caps are fantastic. During every party we've had over the last few years, I've put out the cap bowl, and attempted to collect every beer cap that popped in my house. Now, after a few beers, the attention to detail just isn't there to get a group of party people to drop their caps in a designated bowl, so I'd bet that I've only successfully collected about a fifth of the caps I should have. However, that only makes the caps that I DO have even more fun. As I sifted through them for this project, I noticed that I wasn't even sure what kind of beer some of them were. Then, there was the occasional Bud Light Lime cap which brought back memories of the only night we brought those home. Apparently, I threw in a couple of our Johnnie Walker caps in as we finished off a bottle of Black Label which I don't recall doing, but I'm glad that I did. Looking at those caps, I knew that this wind chime would serve as a personal "drunk history" of sorts - bringing up stories and reminding us of fun nights gone by. I started by sorting through the caps to make sure that I had a nice variety of brands. Then, I lined them up on the coffee table to see how they would look next to each other once they were attached. I ended up rearranging all of them based on color so that the yellow lemon beer caps, green lime caps, blue Sam Adams caps, and black Guinness caps were spread out to create a nice random feel and to avoid getting any spots that were too dark or too bright in one clump. Next, I grabbed my tools: - a scrap piece of 2x4 I had out in the shed - pliers - needle nose pliers - a wire cutter - my drill and 3/32 drill bit - 10mm safety wire - about 80 bottle caps - a handful of shiny plastic beads I've had FOREVER but wasn't quite sure what to do with To begin assembly, you'll want to make sure to grip your bottle caps with pliers while you drill. I started by just holding them down with my hands, but as we've all learned at one point or another, bottle caps can be deceivingly sharp. Also, you shouldn't put your fingers that close to a moving drill bit. Drill two holes into each cap. Attempt to put the holes directly across from each other so that the cap will hang straight once it's attached to the wire. *Drilling through metal is different than drilling through wood. It does not take even pressure and drill slowly through until you reach the other side. Just pick a spot, start drilling, and it will suddenly punch through the metal. I didn't bother paying attention to which direction the holes would cause the caps to hang because the color placement was more important to me, but if having all of your caps facing the correct way is important to you, then I would suggest marking all of your hole spots with a sharpie before drilling so that you don't drop the ball in the middle of the project. When you're looking at the back of something like 80 caps, it's easy to mix up the direction of the faces. The holes will be kind of jagged, so I recommend using gloves. I noticed the day after completing this project that my fingers had tiny scratches and tears on them which could have easily been avoided with gloves. I'm much more of a "hind sight is 20/20" kind of person when it comes to DIY projects. Once I get an idea, I tend to just jump on it without much prepping or safety consideration. However, I do NOT recommend doing your projects that way. Always consider safety first! Do as I say, not as I do, right? :) Once I had holes in all of the caps that I planned to use, I cut about 90 pieces of safety wire at about 4.5" long each. Then, I fed one end of a piece of wire into one hole from the back of the cap. Take the wire and wrap it around itself until it creates a nice tight spiral. Then, use the needle nose pliers to grab that end of the wire and crimp in into the coil so it doesn't catch on anything. I then slid a bead onto the end of the wire, turned the whole thing around and attached the other side of the wire to another bottle cap the exact same way as this one. This means you are only using one wire in between each cap, and I only put a bead on every other wire or so. For my hanger, I got really lucky. We are in the process of renovating our kitchen, and I ended up with an extra metal pole from a cabinet. So, I grabbed that, ran a string through each hole in the pole, and then ran some wire through the entire pole to hang it! I absolutely adore this wind chime. Now, I will admit that it doesn't make the musical sound of a standard wind chime, but the caps do make a cute little metallic clink as they tap each other in the wind. I also love how bright and colorful it is, which is hard to come by in our yard since we don't have a lot of flowering plants back there. Overall, it's a super cheerful, easy project that takes a little bit of time to put together but is completely worth it. I love sitting in the sun and thinking about all of the good times those caps facilitated :)
28 bottle caps art and crafts projects. Creative ideas to reuse plastic and metal caps for easy and cheap home decor. #hometalk #bottlecapscrafts #reusebottlecaps
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Plastic bottle caps are perfectly sized for little hands and can be used for so many things. Here are 25 ways to use plastic bottle caps for learning activities with kids. Oh, the things you can do
This was posted by ReUseConnection, it just blew my mind. I love it. This couple, Michelle and Nathaniel Stitzlein, have a studio in Baltimore Ohio called the Art Grange. They both make sculpture, and also computer graphics. Michelle reuses many objects in her beautiful sculptures, such as piano keys - they exhibit their art, and also hold workshops for children where they make mosaics out of bottlecaps. This is their website: http://www.artgrange.com/. I always wanted to make art out of bottlecaps, and other objects as well, in the past - these people are really, really doing it. Michelle has published a book of their bottlecap mosaic projects with children - which would be awesome for schools (or home art projects). I've started saving bottlecaps again. Link to order her book here: www.lulu.com/content/2508533
28 bottle caps art and crafts projects. Creative ideas to reuse plastic and metal caps for easy and cheap home decor. #hometalk #bottlecapscrafts #reusebottlecaps
These poppies are made from plastic bottles - Yes right. A fab way of using plastic bottles. We love making flowers here in The Mad House and at this time o ...
Scrap 4 Art. In my opinion... one of Toledo's Best Kept Secrets. Located at 1501 Adams Street in downtown. They collect miscellaneous items and sell them (on the cheap) to people like me. Now here's a sign that I just love to see. Fill a bag for $3.00! My kind of shopping. My family waited in the back room where creativity blossoms. Thanks for your patience boys...now get busy and make something! I've seen this done before...just never actually being used as a cork board. Yep, you can find cork here...possibly the framing. they specialize in the unusual. My reason for coming...this huge shelf filled with piles of fabric swatches. I think I'm dreaming...ZZZ... Zafus and Zabutons and zo much more! I loved this window treatment. This just might find its way into my craft room. If you look closely you will see that it is made from household "trash" (treasure), i.e., lids, caps, colored plastic thing-a-ma-jigs. Hippie cool. Here is the nice woman who was helping me...she is the artist of the following zipper tree. Yep...if you look close you will see it is made entirely of old zippers. Love it! Talk about cool, they conduct classes for different groups turning trash into art! There are others like me...those of my kind. Here I thought I was the only one who couldn't throw "things" away. Brought a tear to my eye. One of my favorites. Hands Around the World. A bottle cap work of art! This pole puppet greets you at the door. I couldn't leave without getting her picture. And... I can't sign off without giving a BIG THANKS to Rolinda , a new friend at Harmony in Life for sharing this little gem with me. It is people like you who make people like me so very happy! Thanks for the gift of fabric as well...it was...such a Rolinda thing to do. Creating Awaits!
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If you have an artistic bent of mind, then designing a beautiful mosaic with any of the upcycled stuffs would definitely be on your priority list. Bottle caps are certainly one of the ideal choices to make a wonderful mosaic for different occasions. Let us look into the several DIYs that would aid you in […]
28 bottle caps art and crafts projects. Creative ideas to reuse plastic and metal caps for easy and cheap home decor. #hometalk #bottlecapscrafts #reusebottlecaps
Explore 23 eco-friendly, practical, and cost-effective uses for plastic bottles, ranging from art pieces to garden additions.
Flowers are seen as works of art, with Mother Nature being given credit as being the artist who created so many species of them. It is true; there is
If you're like me, there's a container in your house overflowing with bottle caps, corks and other beverage paraphernalia, gathering dust and taunting you from across the room with dozens of undone craft ideas swirling about.
28 bottle caps art and crafts projects. Creative ideas to reuse plastic and metal caps for easy and cheap home decor. #hometalk #bottlecapscrafts #reusebottlecaps
A roundup collection of 21 creative and unique ways to reuse and recycle bottle caps into DIY home decor and things to wear projects for adults and children
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Do you just throw away plastic bottles knowing they're trash? Well... think again. Here is a list of ideas on how to reuse plastic bottles for gardening!
28 bottle caps art and crafts projects. Creative ideas to reuse plastic and metal caps for easy and cheap home decor. #hometalk #bottlecapscrafts #reusebottlecaps
I'm sharing free digital bottle cap images I created
This craft tutorial shows you how to upcycle bottle caps and create fun garden wall art. You can use recycled bottle caps or purchase.
My husband made this amazing Beer Bottle Cap Table over the weekend and it turned out so awesome. He had been saving bottle caps for quite some time and I knew he had some kind of grand plan in mind for them, but I didn't know what exactly. He started by constructing the small round
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Making a DIY Fabric Checkerboard is so easy to do. The biggest bonus is that there is no sewing required. This fabric checkerboard is portable and easy to pack up for family trips or play a fun game at home. DIY Fabric Checkerboard We are having so much fun, and making lots of family memories …
