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	Bottle Cap Jewelry by Melissa Baldwin adapted from an online class Supply List; Bottle Caps - 4 or more hammer and two small cutting boards or pieces of wood - or a rubber mallet. Heat tool - or melting pot awl or paper piercer (awl is better) black chain bracelet toggle clasp if desired jump rings - larger size eye pins glass or crystal beads in your choice of colors jewelry tools - small round nose pliers and regular pliers pattern paper or cardstock Bottle Cap Rounds rubber stamps or letter stamps black ink 13/16" and 1" circle punches medium and small page pebbles if desired Crystal Lacquer
Let's make a Bottle Cap Jewelry! The first step is to gather your supplies then, print your photographs about 1.2" (depending on the image) and select your color palette to coordinate. I am going to use BasicGrey's Skate Shoppe for my jewelry today.
	The next thing we need to do is get the rubber seal out of the inside of the bottle cap. There are a couple different ways to do this... the first is to heat it up with your heat tool.
When the seal is heated you can then pull it out with some type of tool. I use my paper piercer since it is usually handy. Be careful as the cap is very hot!
	The second way to remove the seals is to either use a melting pot or electric skillet from your kitchen. Anything will work that heats from the bottom. Just place your bottle caps in the melt pot...
Then while the cap is still in the melt pot remove the seal. It comes right out!... it does not have a chance to cool down like when you use your heat tool so it removes easily.
	Remove the seals from 4 bottle caps. I am using 3 for my bracelet and one for my pendant.
Now we need to smash the caps... what fun! Ha! I first started out with a rubber mallet and would have to smash around the edges of the cap like so... it worked but I smashed my fingers a few times... ouch!
	Then the other day I came up with a better idea and you don't even need to purchase a rubber mallet for this technique! Take two cutting boards and place your bottle caps between them... either side up, does not matter. The photo shows me doing all four at once, but it works better one or two at a time.
Then hit them a few times (5-6 wacks should do it) with a hammer or rubber mallet or whatever you may have around the house.
	Once you have all your aggressions out... unveil your caps and they should all be perfectly flat!
Now is a good time to punch out your photographs. The one I used is our 1" punch. And is the perfect size. as well as easy to see if you are cutting anyone out of the photo!
	Punch some other photo's out with the 13/16" punch, then you can layer them with pattern paper. This is the Sean the older twin. :)
I am using 3 photo's on my bracelet and one photo for my pendent. But design your bracelet they way you would like it! You can have all photo's or all stamped images... which come next.
	Now let's punch out some pattern paper to stamp on and matt our photo's. I choose BasicGrey's skate shoppe collection and used the front page of the packaging as the designs were in scale with my photo's. Don't throw away that packaging! You can also use the BasicGrey packaging to have a record of all the designs and colors... I cut these out and glued them into a rolodex that I have started for all my cardstock, pattern paper, and ink colors. Very handy!
Now let's STAMP!! Dina Pagli-Gerner created these Bottle Cap Rounds stamps specifically to use with out bottle caps. Of course they work great on cardstock too!
	I stamped on the pattern paper with my favorite black ink pad StazOn Jet Black, as it is the blackest black pad I have found.
Now use the 13/16 punch to punch out your stamped images. Dina sizes these perfectly for this punch... easy, easy! My kind of project.
.	I almost forgot that we need to punch holes in the edges of the bottle caps! This is how we will attach the caps to our bracelet and pendent. I have used my paper piercer (LOVE that tool!) and an awl for this, and I ended up bending and breaking my paper piercer, so I now recommend an awl. You can pick up an awl at your local hardware store for about $3.00. If you are stamping in the middle of the night and the hardware store is closed!!... see if you can find a nail, which will work just fine as well, but harder to handle.
Wack your awl a few times with a hammer or mallet and you will get a nice clean hole.
	Now comes the even "funn-er" part! First grab your crystal lacquer, a wet cloth, smashed caps and your punched out images.
Now place some CL (Crystal Lacquer) in the cap and smoosh it around with your finger to get even coverage.
	Place your photo in the cap then apply more CL on top of the photo. Be careful not to scratch the photo with your finger nail.
I layered the smaller photo's onto the punched out cardstock for the twins photo's, and just used a photo for my eldest son Alec. Here are the finished pieces and we could stop here and assemble the bracelet, but let's take it further!
	Let's decorate the other side of the caps... glue the stamped images and matts to the cap the same way we did with the photo's.
Finished caps... cool hugh?!
	Another way to do this process is to use your Melt Pot again. Heat it up and place your bottle cap inside the pot.
Then sprinkle in Clear Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel also referred to as UTEE.
	Place your photo inside the cap and press down all edges.
Then sprinkle more UTEE on top of the photo until you have a nice thick layer.
	I think I left mine in the pot too long as it turned yellow! So I think I need to play around with this some more... it does give you a nice finish and you could embed items into the melted UTEE if you wanted.
Now let's grab some page pebbles and micro beads and have some good clean fun!
	I am going to take the Large Page Pebble from Making Memories (we sell) and place it directly over of the smaller photo's. It is the perfect size to cover a 13/16" punched item... cool beans!
Can you see the dimension? This also protects your bracelet from getting a little bit wet or from being scratched.
	Now let's add some sparkle with clear micro beads. Fill in the area between the page pebble and the outside of the cap with a medium thick layer of CL.
Then dip it into your clear micro beads.
	Ooooo... pretty!
Now take the Extra Large Page Pebble and place it over the larger photo. This is the perfect size to fill the inside of the bottle cap. I love that!
	This gives it a nice finish. (Cute kid hugh?!)
Finished caps.
	Another option is to use our Magnifiers. These come in a couple different sizes and are made from glass, so they will give you a smoother more polished look and add some weight. I am going to use these on my pendent.
Use more CL to adhere the magnifier inside the cap.
	Smooth as glass... cause it is glass!
Here is the dimension created by the page pebbles. I used small and large pebbles on the back sides of the caps.
	Now let's gather our jewelry supplies; head pin rings, beads, round nose and regular pliers, and wire clippers. We are going to make "dangles"
Slide your beads onto your head pin.
	Take your round nose pliers and a little ways up from the beads bend the wire as shown.
Slide on your jump ring and hold in your left hand (reverse if you are a leftie).
	Using your round nose pliers bend the wire around the jump ring. (boy did my fingers get dirty or what?!)
You will have to use your wire cutter to clip off excess wire and then using regular pliers bend down the and left over wire.
	You will need 4 of these dangles for your bracelet and one for you pendant.
Here is the blank chain I am going to use for my bracelet, and I do not like the clasp that comes with it so I am going to replace it with a toggle clasp, and you will just use your pliers (both of them at the same time) to open up the jump rings that hold the existing clasp, remove them and then add the two piece toggle clasp.
	Use jump rings to add your 3 bottle caps to your bracelet.
Also use jump rings to add your beads.
	For the pendant you will need to poke another hole at the bottom of the bottle cap, and then add a jump ring with the beads at the bottom, and then another jump ring at the top to slide either a chain or ribbon through to hang around your neck.
Finished pieces... how cute are these?!! Thank you for taking this class with me and I know you are going to enjoy making this jewelry again and again! We now carry crystal and glass beads, and jewelry findings in our internet store, so you can purchase all the supplies for this class in one place!