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Bottle Cap Bracelet (photo1)

By Stephanie Loomis
Trail Blazers
Mixed Media Team Designer

For a little more fun history regarding Bottle Cap Art, please go to Bottle Cap Bracelet by M. Elizabeth Lee. This art form has been around a few decades and is enjoying a revival by rubber stamp artists and jewelry enthusiasts alike.

Supplies:
Holiday themed rubber stamps (The Angel Company)
Brilliance ink-Graphite Black (Tsukineko)
VersaColor ink-Fresh Green, Scarlet (Tsukineko)
Cardstock scraps -red, green, white (Bazzil)
5 bottle caps (3Cs Design)
1” and 7/8”circle punches (EK Success)
Scissors
Glue Stick (Tombow)
Stickles glitter glue-Candy Cane (Ranger)
Royal Coast Dimensional Magic (Plaid)
Heavy Curb bracelet blank (the Jewelry Shoppe)
Jump rings jewelry findings (the Jewelry Shoppe)
Heat tool (Surebonder)
Needle nose pliers (Darice)
Rubber mallet or Sizzix die cutter with adapter
Hammer and nail

(photo1a)

Instructions:

1.   Flatten the bottle caps with a rubber mallet or by placing them in the Sizzix machine and pushing the lever. 

2.   Use the heat tool to warm the plastic ring on the silver side of the bottle cap. Use pliers to pull the plastic ring off. 

3.   Use the hammer and nail to punch a hole in the crimp of each bottle cap. 

4.   Stamp sentiment on white scrap cardstock with black ink and trim around words. 

5.   Punch a 7/8” circle from green cardstock. Mount sentiment onto green circle with glue stick. 

6.   Stamp round filigree image with red ink on white cardstock scrap twice and punch out each one with a 7/8” punch. 

7.   Stamp the holly image with green ink onto white cardstock scrap twice and punch out each one with a 7/8” punch. 

8.   Punch out three red and two green 1” circles. 

9.   Mount red filigree images onto green circle with glue stick.

10. Mount holly images and sentiment assemblage onto red circles with glue stick. 

11. Mount circles onto silver side of bottle caps with glue stick. (photo2) 

12. Color holly berries with Stickles Glitter Glue and let dry completely. 

13. Fill the bottle cap fronts with Dimensional Magic and let dry at least one hour. 

14. To form a short dangle chain that connects the bottle caps to the bracelet, work with three jump rings at a time. Open two jump rings with a needle nose pliers and loop into one closed jump ring.  Attach and close the top jump ring onto the bracelet blank and the bottom jump ring to a bottle cap.  Continue attaching remainder bottle caps in the same manner. 

15. Wear with a festive heart!

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