How To Make Lovely Bottle Caps Crafts Magnets

In this lens I will teach you how to make fun bottle caps crafts! That's right! Your garbage can be your next profit or jewelry or magnet or key chain..... you name it! Think twice before dumping anything else out in that garbage pail because seriously more and more people today are finding things to do with their trash! And it isn't a bad idea! You will find out why in this lens with this simple and fun tutorial on how to make a bottle cap fridge magnet that is sure to have all your friends loving it! Oh and of course you too!

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Enjoy My Bottle Caps Crafts MagnetsTutorial!

You can recycle them from soda or beer you have finished drinking. Even find some on the streets while you go for your walks, or you can of course buy them online if you prefer. But then that wouldn't be really turning trash into crafts would be? Uhmm.......

Why not just try finding these around? You can make it fun even! Say next time you go for a walk you will be on a quest to have to find at least one of these bottle caps before returning home.

If you have kids you can make it a game with them and challenge them to find as many bottle caps as they can! The winner wins......(~~~Drum Rolls~~~) A PRIZE!! Yaaay!!!! Do I hear children cheering in the background?? ;)) Let's all scream: Bottle Caps Crafts!! :))

Find an image that you like. You can find them in magazines, old calendars, catalogs, old books, postcards, old calendar, junk mail, old calendars, stickers, you can purchase ready to download and print bottle cap images that some people sell on Etsy, Amazon or even on here, or you can simply use real pictures for this project.

Pictures of your kids or yourself, husband, boyfriend, friends or even your pets! Just let your imagination go wild on this one. Once you find the image you would like to use you will have to cut it to the size of the inside of the bottle cap.

A little tool I like to use for this is a 1 inch circle hole puncher I purchased from Michaels Arts & Crafts Store a couple of years ago. It cuts perfect sizes that fit right inside these bottle caps! And it cuts a perfect circle too. Very easy! (See picture above)

Are we having fun yet creating this bottle caps crafts? Well, keep reading :)

As you can see on this picture there are many things and ways to make your bottle caps crafts magnet as special as it can be. You can use an image and then embellish it using beads shown above or sprinkling some very fine sparkles(sprinkles).

Make sure you buy the finest one you can find, because you want to make sure it is very thin as to not obstruct your image. It can give your bottle caps crafts magnet a nice all sparkly finish!

Remember the key here is to use your imagination and let it soar. Be creative! You can paint the bottom of the bottle cap inside with any color nail polish you choose to give it the finish inside the bottle cap if you decide to use the beads, since they don't cover the whole inside of the cap, the nail polish finish will make it look nice.

Then you just use a crafts glue such as the E6000 or the one I like using now is one called Amazing GOOP. You can find it at any arts & crafts store and it works very very well!

I like to use a toothpick since this Amazing GOOP glue is a bit thick you can put some on the tooth pick and apply directly to the back of the bead you choose to use and gently place it where you want it to sit inside the bottle cap and gently but firmly at the same time, press it down and hold it for a few minutes for the bead to stick.

You will have to wait for at least a half an hour to an hour for glue to completely be dried before you can go on to working on the next step.

Now you will need to set up the magnet. I bought at the time from Ebay a big box of those self adhesive magnets, I find them very easy to use because you don't need to glue them since they are adhesive ones.

What I do as shown on picture above is I use the same 1 inch hole puncher that we used to punch out our images for the magnet. It creates a perfect circle this way!(the picture shown above was not done using the hole puncher and that is why the circle isn't a perfect nice round one and you can see it doesn't look as professional as it would have if I had use the puncher instead)

Once you punch out the magnet you can go ahead and stick it to the back of the bottle cap as seen on the picture above. Now you are ready to start working on the rest. Go to the next step now.

PS: I have made magnets in the past that became a bit too heavy due to many things I put inside like buttons, lots of beads at once etc... in this case you will need to use those Neodymium Magnets, and apply them with the Amazing GOOP glue to the back of the bottle cap. Because the other kind of magnet won't be strong enough to hold your magnet on a fridge or locker....

Do I hear the kiddos in the background saying: "Let's make some bottle caps crafts!" ;))

Oh and by the way, that is the glue I was talking about in the previous step. The Amazing GOOP? And yeah I always buy the Household one. It is strong enough for your crafts. They have different kinds of ones, but that is what I recommend you using.

Ok! So are we ready for this next step? The glazing step? Ok let's do it! So as you can see I have two kinds of glaze showing in this picture. The one I absolutely love to use.... take a guess.... the one in the small bottle or the big bottle??

BUZZZZZZ! You're wrong if you picked either one, because this was a trick question! I actually use both, becaaaaause.... because the small one contains the same as the big one I just use that little bottle to keep refilling it because it's easier to work with that squeeze bottle instead of that big bottle! :)

But I always do choose Diamond Glaze by Judi Kins because it is simply the best! It dries shiny and glossy all the time. The one I used previous to this which is the one that came in that little squeeze bottle was horrible! Absolutely horrible to use. It dried opaque instead of shiny and glossy. Ruined all my art work!

Ok, enough with the talking and let's get busy again on our bottle caps crafts magnets project! So.... now you will take your bottle cap and hopefully you allowed enough time for both nail polish(if you decided to go with the nail polish choice) and glue to dry completely and start applying the glaze. Please do not and I repeat DO NOT ever shake the diamond glaze bottle right before using it.

A little tip I give you is that every time after I refilled my little squeeze bottle I always let it sit for AT LEAST a half an hour before I CAREFULLY pick it up to start working.

Why??? You ask. Because you do not want air to create inside and have tons of tiny little bubbles come out on your project. These bubbles are the most annoying thing and I like to call them "The Unpoppable Bubbles", because they are really really hard to get rid of and pop! So be very careful and pay extra attention to this part of the step.

So take your squeeze bottle being very careful not to shake it and squeezing it slowly so a little comes out at a time, and go ahead and fill up the inside of the cap almost all the way to the top with the Diamond Glaze.

After they are filled up I like to place them on a cutting board or cooking sheet and let the cure. I usually place them inside my oven (do not turn the oven on!), but I like to keep them inside the oven until they are all dried (which takes approximately 24 to 48 hours depending on how much you use and what you decide to put inside your bottle cap).

The reason I like putting them inside the oven is so to avoid any debris to fall in them or dust from the air in the process of drying. So keep them safely in the oven for the next day or two.

PS: Do not panic! Once you put the glaze it will look opaque and you won't be able to see the bottom of the cap anymore. That is normal! Once it dries it will be glossy, shiny and it will look like glass. It will not dry white or opaque.

I promise you! As long as you are using the Diamond Glaze by Judi Kins I can make you that promise. If any other glaze is used I can not make any guarantees.

Ok, so you are pretty much done on Step 4. But Step 5 just shows you how I like to pack these cute bottle caps crafts magnets into these cute organza pouches.

It looks really neat especially if you are making these to give as a gift or if you are making them for a profit.

Good luck making these bottle caps crafts magnets and feel free to drop me a line or two or an email: mfargasch@gmail.com if you have any additional questions on how to make these.

Have a great day everyone! And Happy Crafting! :)

Now just take a look at some extra pictures I will be including on the next few modules. Since I do not know nor have figured it out yet how some of you have a slide with pictures.

I have to keep using the modules "Text with BIG picture" :) It's ok... I am still new and learning... one day at a time. =))

I scream, you scream, we all scream for some bottle caps crafts fun!! :))

These are the ones I used a large bead inside and colored the inside of the bottle cap using a black color nail polish. You can use any color your heart desires.

It doesn't even have to be nail polish, you can simply punch out a nice solid or patterned piece of cardstock or paper and glue it to the inside of the bottle cap.

As long as you have a background for your bottle caps crafts magnet it will look very nice!

Now go have some fun! And don't throw out your trash! ;))