Wednesday, 5 December 2012

Christmas bottlecap decorations

I have been trying to make use of some of last years Christmas cards and using some of the smaller images I made these little dangle Christmas decorations for the tree or even for a suitable plant.  When we had a lemon tree we would decorate that with any small baubles but sadly it got a bad case of scale insect and had to go so I will have to wait until our Christmas tree is up to use these.
I flattened the bottle caps with a mallet, melted the plastic inner film just enough to scrape it out completely.  Punched out the images from the Christmas cards and stuck them into the bottlecaps.  I then poured Diamond glaze over the image and once they were completely dry I hammered a hole at the top to string the silver thread through.  This time I didn't use any glitter and kept them really simple.

1 comment:

  1. What a brilliant re-cycling idea Jackie! They look wonderful! x

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