101 uses for used bottle caps
Categories: art, recycled craftsPosted on February 28th, 2007 | 2 Comments | RSS feed
99. Mexican folk art cross honouring Frida Khalo
100. Miniature art magnets, pendants and broaches (these ones by me and my daughter)
101. Snowperson eyes
(I also like to use old rusty flattened bottle caps found on the road in collages. My daughter thinks I’m weird and pretends she doesn’t know me when I stop to pick them up.)
Note: the detail in the photos isn’t very good, so I wanted to point out that the penguin’s eyes are made with little gold beads, which I thought was pretty cool.
March 1st, 2007 at 6:37 pm
I recently returned from a trip to the cultural mecca of Italy, and what great souvenier did I bring back for my son? Bottlecaps I’d picked up from the side of the road when our tour bus stopped for breaks. He has a great collecion of them and had a “bottle cap” themed birthday one year. We also love to make crafts with them too. We shrunk down artwork the kids made and printed it off on the computer onto clear label paper and made stickers to put onto plain bottle caps. they came out great!
March 7th, 2007 at 8:58 am
I’ve started collecting bottletops and was starting to think about what i could make with them – thanks for the inspiration!