Flower Power!

Besides creating things from store bought craft goods like beads, clay, paints, fabrics,..etc., I also really enjoy converting so-called junk items into cool and pretty things. A case in point is bottle caps. They're not the most junky things you can find, though a lot of people simply toss away their bottle caps whenever they finish drinking a bottled beverage. I've gotten into the tendency of doing the opposite as of late though because of all of the neat things I can use them for. Even if you're not in the mood to actually create something out of a bottle cap per se, you can still use bottle caps and just any objects with a circular base for tracing out circles. All of the pillows with the large polka dot circles in the previous post had their circles traced out with snapple bottle caps. It sure beats trying to draw out your own perfect circles! (though there is a charm to the less balanced ones...)But if you are in the mood to get really crafty, then you can try something like these flower girls that I made to look like my dolls (not yet posted....will be in the near future!) The dolls I make aren't actually flowers but their faces are the same as the ones painted on the flower girls below. So how did I make the flower girls? First I covered a couple of bottle caps with cloth and painted the faces on them with my fabric markers(again with the fabric markers!). Then with the same markers I drew out petal designs on white cotton and padded them with felt to make little quilted flower petals. The stems are just regular popsicle sticks that I painted green. Finally I sewed the two bottle caps (two sides of the flower girls' faces) together, inserting petals here and there. I didn't sew all the way around though as I had to leave a small opening space for the stems. Once I stuck 'em stems in they were done! I wanted to make my own little garden of them so I also painted a styrofoam rectangle green and covered it with green glitter. The girls stuck right in! So I guess that besides fulfilling any of your needs to create you can also ensure that you will have happy flowers all year round with these guys. ;D It might also be a cute decoration to have for a party!!!!