Bottle Cap Frig Magnets

Have you been saving your bottle caps, and now need a cool project to do with them?  A really easy way to recycle bottle caps is to make refrigerator magnets!  I used some scrap booking paper and traced around the bottles to make a circle.  I then glued it inside the bottle cap, and finally glued a magnet to the backside.

Make It Work

I've been making a lot of collages lately.  It's very easy, and fairly cheap.  I went to Joann's and bought a 3 pack of canvas board, some Modge Podge glue, and some scrap booking paper.  I got colors that looked good together, but not too matchy.  Then I started cutting out pieces, I cut out the bigger pieces first, and laid them down on my board first.  Then I layered it with other smaller pieces of different paper and patterns.  Finally I added some ribbon and the text "Make it work"  Tim Gunn's catchphrase.

With the other two canvas I made some crayon art.  I had leftover maps and decided to cut them out in a circle, so that's in the middle of the board.  I had some traveling scrapbooking paper so I cut that out and glued it to the corners, I didn't want just plain canvas corners.  Then I divided the crayons into two different color pallets.  I glued down the crayons with tacky glue and let them dry for about 5 minutes.  Finally I used a blow dryer and melted the crayons both into the center and out to the corners.  

Waterfall Braid

Waterfall Braid

To do this braid, you need to leave a piece out on one side each time you grab a new piece from that side.  For this photo, I split my piece in half on the left hand side, before grabbing a new piece from the scalp.  

You can do a variety of things with the waterfall braid, but I think it looks best as a headband across the forehead.  It also keeps back bangs or other stray pieces.  It also looks pretty to do two waterfall braids on the sides and leave pieces up into the middle to add to a braid down the middle of the head.