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Today I want to show you how to make these fun bottle cap earrings using epoxy
stickers.
For this project the tools you're going to need are a pair of scissors
a pair of flat nose pliers
a metal hole punch. This is a round one in 1.25 millimeters
a rubber
hammer, rubber mallet
and a steel bench block.
For this project supplies the supplies you're going to need are two bottle caps. I have them here
in silver finish
and I've actually already removed the liner. If you're not familiar with how to
remove a liner
we have an easy tutorial at Beadaholique.com showing you how to do it.
I also have an earring hook set. I've chosen to use gun metal.
I have a sheet of epoxy stickers.
Some paris images from the paris collage sheet
and I have some white Nunn Design glue.
So to begin this project what you're going to want to do
is flattened out your bottle caps.
Now to do have another tutorial at Beadaholique.com on how to do this but it's do quick and easy
I'm just going to do it here again.
You just take your bottle cap
turn it upside down so that the interior concave area is facing the bench block.
I'm going to take my rubber mallet.
I'm just going to evenly hit it.
Rotate it a little bit.
You can see what's happening is the actual sides are starting to
curve up and over which is what you want.
There you go you can see the difference
I'm going to go ahead and do the second one.
So now I have two which are identical.
So the next thing I wanna do is I wanna go ahead and chose the image
that I want use.
When you get a collage sheet like this there's a wealth of images to choose from.
I personally like the little eiffel tower one.
I have another sheet of epoxy stickers here that I've been using.
I'm going to take my pair of scissors
and I'm going to cut out
two stickers.
I'm going to cut right through the
lining on the front and back. I don't want to remove that yet.
If I was to remove that right now I might get fingerprints all over
my sticker
which is not so bad on the front because you can use wipe that away.
So I'm actually going to go ahead and take the
protective layer off but on the back if was to remove
the actual
plastic liner that the adhesive is adhere to
I'd get fingerprints all over this right now.
So what you want it if you want to go ahead and use this as a template
and choose where you're gonna wanna go ahead and place
your sticker once you do remove it from the backing.
So carefully peel away the backing.
As you're doing so try not to touch the
stick-um on the back of your sticker.
Flip it over
and very carefully
lay it down on your image.
I'm going to do that with the other one right now as well cause I'm making a matching pair of earrings.
I'm going to cut these out. I'm first going to make a wide cut.
I'm trying not to cut any of the images around it because I'll probably want to use it for another project.
Once you've done that wide cut go ahead and just
keep pressing the sticker
onto the image
and then carefully cut around the image,
around a sticker.
Personally I don't pre-cut my images. You could use a one inch hole punch if you
wanted to and pre-cut your image.
I like having the flexibility of
figuring out where I wanna place the image and just make sure it lines up
perfectly. Sometimes it's a little hard
if you've already cut out the one inch image.
You're trying to perfectly lineup this epoxy sticker.
You can get a little bit off centered. You'll have a little bit of a white space or a blank
space.
I like just being able to just put the sticker on and then cut around it.
You do have to be careful because you can actually cut the
the epoxy sticker.
Just work slowly and
work your way around it.
So one is done.
cannons compress that sticker
Now I'm just going to push that sticker down a little bit more.
Now that you've cut out your image go ahead and really press
the image and the sticker together. You wanna make sure that they have a nice
tight bond.
Now take your glue
and you can either use a paintbrush if you want or you can go ahead and use your fingers.
I personally prefer to just use my fingers
and going to smear glue on the backside
the paper side
of my image.
Go all the way to the edge.
Carefully flip it over so that you are not getting any on the front
and drop it into your bottle cap.
I'm going to do that now with the next one.
IU'm going to press this into place and then I'm going to let them dry for at least twenty minutes.
Hopefully you've been patient and you've waited twenty minutes for your
stickers to dry in your bottle cap settings.
So now I'm going to take my hole punch
and I'm going to
find the middle top
area and
when I had a bottle cap that I punched that had not been flattened I like to punch it in
the recessed area.
Now when I do have one that is flattened I actually like to punch in the little bit of a
raised area. I find it's a little bit easier to get the hole punch in there.
Find the area I want to punch
and I just punch it.
Goes in and really smooth and easy.
I'm going to do that on the next one.
Now I'm going to take my earring hooks
I'm going to open up
the hoop at the bottom.
Thread it through that hole
and close that
little loop right back up.
And I have a complete earring. Go ahead and do the other side.
And there
you have bottle cap earrings using epoxy stickers.
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