Crafter Shyloh Belnap was on Good Things to show us how to make a Bottle Cap Calendar from the Bakers Dozen Calendar Kit.
Items Needed:
*This is a kit originally designed by Maya Road. You can purchase it with everything you need on our website (retail Value $34.95, your cost $27.95)
It will also come with detailed instructions and pictures. Here are the instructions:
Items Needed:
13 Jumbo Maya Road Bottle Caps,
4.25 Yards of Ribbon
1 pack of 2012 Kraft Calendars
1 Seasons Keychain
1 Pot of Maya Road Glitter
2 Maya Road Ink Pads
1 Package Of When Skies Are Grey Mini Clipboards
1/2 Package of Velvet Pleat Blossoms
9 Vintage Wooden Snowflakes
3 sheets of paper
Other items needed (not in kit)
Crop a Dile or hole punch that is strong
circle cutter, craft foam, pop dots, glossy accents or clear drying glue, fine tip marker
Directions:
1.Layout your bottle caps in 3 rows of 4 in a row. Mark where your bottle caps were and use the Crop a Dile Hole Punch to punch a hole in the bottle caps.
2.Cut holes in the edge of each bottle cap and tie them together.
3.Cut (12) 3.5 inch circles for the bottle caps.
4.Adhere the 2012 Kraft Calendars to each bottle cap.
5.Embellish each of the seasons keychain. For Spring and Winter, apply a layer of glossy accents with glitter. For autumn and summer ink with the rose ink pad. Adhere to the bottle caps using foam dots.
6.Apply silver ink to the wooden snowflakes. Attach to the bottle caps with the foam dots.
7. Cover 3 clouds with several raindrops from the When the Skies are Grey chipboard set with silver ink. Attach to the bottle caps as shown using the foam dots.
8.Attach the velvet flowers using liquid glue or glue dots as shown.
9.Using the umbrella chipboard, trace the shape onto a scrap of the paper and then adhere to the chipboard. Ink the handle of the umbrella with pink ink. File the edges to help having a nice finish.
10. For the 2nd umbrella, use the rose ink to ink the top of the umbrella and use the blue glitter for the bottom.
There will be lots of leftovers to make some fun extra projects with!
For more information, go to:
http://www.aPage4allSeasons.com.
