wine corks little use after finishing a bottle of wine. Of course, you can start a collection of cork, but other than that, your options seem quite limited, right?
Wrong. There are so many things you can do with them once you skipped your bottle. Take this little project, for example, that takes your collected caps and turns them into beautiful pieces of jewelry. It is a fun, simple and catchy way to make the trash yesterday in today's jewelry.
Before doing anything, you need to prep your plugs. Fill a saucepan with a few inches of water ...
The Far Side Of The Glass
Put plugs in strainer over the saucepan, making sure the strainer and the water does not touch.
Cover the pot and strainer and boil water for ten minutes.
The Far Side Of The Glass
This will make your infinitely easier to cut plugs, you can do with a knife or a small hand saw.
Fiskars
Cut the cork slices at any width you want for your pendants. When finished, sand the rough parts for softness on both sides.
Cover your newly smoothed plugs with either ink or paint and allow to dry.
Fiskars
After your cork is dry, use a stamp size to cover your cap with a delightful pattern.
Fiskars
For best results, press your cap in the patch, instead of the reverse . Let dry before adding other textures.
Take a screw eye five millimeters and turn it in the top of the cap.
Fiskars
If you want to wear your pendant cork, you can put a collar around the newly placed eye.
Fiskars
You can also worn as charms, hang them on your wall, or even make earrings!
Fiskars
(source Fiskars)
These small pendants would look perfect just about everywhere, and since they take little time to do, you can quickly create dozens of them in one sitting. In addition, you do not have to worry persistent plugs around your kitchen.
0 Komentar