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Happy Thanksgiving-Week, friends! I know it’s still just a little tiny bit early to be thinking about Christmas decorations {or is it?}, but my friend Kelly and I got together on Saturday night and made some of the cutest ornaments! I just couldn’t wait until after Thanksgiving to show you, so here they are {well, some of them, anyway}…
We got the idea from Kelly’s Pinterest board, where she had pinned this little guy from She Who Makes. Here’s how we made ours:
Materials:– bottle caps
– white, black, orange, and red acrylic paint
– paintbrushes
– ribbon
– hot glue gun and glue sticks
– buttons
– scissors
– optional: glitter and/or sparkle Mod Podge
STEP 1: Paint the inside of each bottle cap white. It’s a little tricky getting it to coat completely, so you’ll probably need to so several coats, letting it dry in between. You can paint the outsides too if you really want, but we didn’t.
STEP 2: Glue three bottlecaps to a piece of ribbon. You’ll also want to put a bit of glue in between each bottlecap to hold them together. Form a loop with the top of the ribbon and glue in place. {Thanks to Kelly for being my hand model…you didn’t even know I took this pic, did you? I’m so sneaky like that. ;)}
STEP 3: Use the end of a paintbrush or a toothpick to paint eyes, a nose, mouth and buttons on your snowmen. Once they were dry, I added some sparkle Mod Podge to mine.
STEP 4: Tie a ribbon or yarn between the first and second bottle caps to make a scarf and accent with a button if you like.
Here are Kelly’s two snowmen:
…and here are mine. She said they could be the hubby and me, so I think I need to make a little two-bottle-cap one to be Little Crafter, don’t you?
I’m all about it. Easy, cute, and ridiculously cheap to make…my kind of crafting! Stay tuned to see some of the other fun ornaments we made together!
Happy Crafting!
so very cute, love bottle caps – so fun!
Simple and cute! 🙂
really cute ! Pinned them , of course ! 🙂
These are adorable!! I’m pinning : )
These are too cute!
Really cute!
Those are SO cute, Amy! I’ve got all the stuff to do it, so I know what my plans are for the day!
Thanks for sharing!
Jourdan
Very cute! I think you absolutely need to make one to represent LC.
What a cute idea…and you definitely need to make a little one for LC…
Such an adorable idea!
Amy, I adore these! So simple and so cute! I’m pinning them too!
These are super cute. I love how easy and inexpensive they are!
Oh, so cute! I love a cute, simple ornament!
These are so ADORABLE!! My kiddos are going to love them.:)
So cute Amy!! Why didn’t I think of this?! I better gather some bottle caps!!
Barbara at Chase the Star
Awww … what a very cute idea!
These are so cute! I’m always looking for cute and fun crafts to do with my kids. I’m so glad I found your blog! Thanks for sharing!
XOXO
MJ
Happy Thanksgiving!
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These are soo cute! Would love it if you linked up on my blog hop http://www.w-t-fab.com/search/label/bloghop. Also let me know if you’d like to follow each other!
Amy-these arseso cute. My little Valerie would love to make them. Thanks so much for swinging by our Christmas party…first winner announced on Friday. Good luck!! 🙂 ~ Julie
Featured on my FB page 🙂
These are just the cutest! Thanks for linking them up this week… I’m pinning them to my Holiday Projects board. 🙂
What a cute project! I love it so much that I decided to feature it in our roundup of snowy winter crafts! Check it out here: http://www.favecraftsblog.com/snowy-winter-crafts/
What cute cute idea, Amy! LOVE IT!
Thanks so much for linking up last week at The Humble Brag!!
The Silhouette Cameo giveaway is still going strong and you can get MORE ENTRIES by signing up for link party email reminders, sharing the giveaway on FB with your readers, and linking up again. Hope to see you there tomorrow.
OMG! I love it! And I already have everything at home! Cant wait to get started! Thanks for the idea!
Love em Amy! So much I am busting these babies on being featured tomorrow – over on the blog! Thanks for linking up!
Merry Christmas and give that cute LC a squeeze!
Jen
what kind of white paint did you use?
Just regular ol’ acrylic white craft paint! Probably Americana.
Thanks for this great craft. I shared it with my niece who teaches an after school art class.
Bottle cap snowman is so cute but I was disappointed that I could not print the instructions. I ended up just writing them out. Did I miss where I could print?
Your style is very unique in comparison to
other folks I’ve read stuff from. Many thanks for posting when you have the opportunity, Guess I’ll just
book mark this site.
Awesome Idea!
Delightful snowmen. Thank you for a lovely craft.
I love this project! I am currently creating a list of top DIY Christmas gifts/decorations on my blog. Could I get permission to use this image and put this on the list? I will link back to this page underneath the list item.
Thanks!
Sure can! Thanks for asking for permission.
Thank you for info.
I like the idea. Recycling the junk is a good idea. Impressed how a junk can be a good thing.
This is a really cool idea. Do come up with more 🙂
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thanks for all this ideas
very cute snowmen..!!
super cutes snowman of bottle caps..!! thanks for this easy and cute ideas
so very cute, love bottle caps – so fun