Turn your revelry into bottle-cap tree
Kathy Cano-Murillo
Special for the Republic
Dec. 8, 2007 12:00 AM
In our house the holiday season means lots of parties. Between family and friends, and imported beers and sodas, I’m always left with an abundance of bottle caps.
When you are a hopeless craftaholic like myself, you see each one as a mini picture frame. I can’t even think of tossing them out. I recently arranged them all together and came out with this cool collage tree decoration.
I used vintage holiday images from ARTchixStudio.com, but you also can use personal photos, as long as you shrink them to fit in the bottle cap.
Bottle Cap Picture Tree
Supplies:
Holiday images (color copies of personal or other photos)
1-inch circle punch
Hot glue gun
75-80 silver bottle caps
Aleene’s Paper Glaze (in bottle that has long skinny nozzle)
Micro fine gold glitter
1 foam tree, 10 inches tall
Micro fine green glitter
Red ball for the top of the tree
4-inch clay saucer to serve as pedestal for tree
Directions:
Cut out images with the circle punch, and glue each one into a bottle cap. Run a bead of the dimensional adhesive around the inside of the bottle cap (to frame each image with sparkle). Then, sprinkle gold glitter inside, and tap out the excess. Start at the bottom of the foam tree, and using the hot glue gun, affix the bottle caps in a row along the bottom. Repeat for the next row, working your way up.
Use the dimensional adhesive to squeeze glue in crevices between the bottle caps and pour on the green glitter. Tap away excess. Hot glue the red ball to the top of the tree, and the saucer (inverted) to the bottom.
Ohhhhh, MY! This is one of my favorite projects of yours so far! (I’ve been a fan for a long time… love your videos, too.) Thanks for sharing!
I added this project and thumbnail to our site and linked to you. We are looking for more Christmas project as well as other projects, so if you have any similar projects please feel free to let me know.
Julia
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Thank you in advance for your consideration,
Sincerely,
Kathy Cisneros
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