Making plastic beads out of pop bottles!

So today, I have decided to show you have to make beads out of a plastic pop bottle!

I have had so many ask me how do you do that so this is how! 

How you find is so easy that you have to start saving all the pop bottles you can find too. 

WARNING

 this is very addicting!

Supplies:

Pop bottle

Scissors

Needle nose pliers

Heat gun

Copic Markers

Chalk-Ah-Lot Powdered Chalk

There is a sale right now on the chalk! 

We have a special promotion!

4 basic chalks for $6 plus shipping,

This does not include metallic or stardust.

Here it the bottle cut up into strips!

You do not have to have long strips!

I like between 3 and 4 inches long.

Here is a photo of the strips colored with Copic markers

I also added Stardust powdered chalk to the

strips while the Copic ink was still wet.

The Stardust is what makes a nice glimmer shine to the bead!

Some Strips and beads!

Lets make some beads!

Take one strip and wind it around the pliers.

This is what it looks like when it is all the way twisted.

I then move the pliers to hold the outer edge of the plastic strip down.

As shown in the next photo. 

Next here you will heat it with a heat gun.

Here is the finished bead!

Notice that they now look like glass!

Some look frosty here and those are the ones with Stardust chalk!

Have fun with these beads!

Use them in all your projects!

Thanks for stopping by!

Tammylee

This doesn't take long and you can get the bead to different

lengths and widths by practicing.

Are you a square?

Speedy Fox and Friends Challenge

By

 Mark's Finest Papers and Stamps!

 A Heinrich Company

Challenge is Square cards

Handmade paper and pop bottle beads!

  Elements of this card are

Border Punch

Handmade beads

Pearl Spray

Ribbon

Flowers

Rhinestones

The  entire set

Visit the challenge here!

Stop by the challenge to see more inspiration from the Design team.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Tammylee

Speedy the Fox Design Team

Anything but a card! How about a bookmark in a card!

CHALLENGE #24

So this is our next challenge

Anything but a card

Sponsor – Meljen's Designs

I used a Bugaboo image and made a card with a bookmark!
Check out the three beads on the card!
Can you guess what they are made of?

Here, you can see three beads.

They are made with paper and then a pop bottle!

The one in the middle is the pop bottle.

Emboss folder

Rhinestones

Ribbon

Border punch

Image colored with Copic Markers 
Nesties

Our challenges run Thursday to Wednesday,

 giving you two weeks to get an awesome creation entered.

The Winner and Top 3 will be announced during each new challenge posting.

You're welcome to use any and all company brands and products.

We would love to see all walks of crafts here..

.decoupage, stamping (Rubber or Digital), altered, 3D,

 LOs, Die cut projects,

anything as long as its made by your talented hands and it follows the Challenge theme!!!

Now this should be fun!

Thanks for stopping by!

Tammylee

DT Craft Us Crazy

Vintage in a fun way!

We are having a
Blog Hop
April 3rd, 4th and 5th.
You could win a set of chalk!
This is the second week to our challenge!

Challenge is

Anything Goes With Chalk
Chalk-Ah-Lot Powdered Chalk

&

Stamp N Plus Scrap N

For this challenge we will have one winner

Winner will win a mini stamp set

We will also pick two projects for every challenge that

will be honored with the Chalkboard award.

We will have a page on the blog for Chalkboard winners!

So here is my project

Lace

Friendship pin with handmade bead

Fiskars corner edger

A closer look!

Handmade paper bead with Glitzy chalk

Chalk is used again around the image to soften the white.

Please stop by the design team members blogs

 to see the specific details on

how they created their card using chalk. 

Now we want to see what you have done with chalk.  

  We will be giving sets of chalk and rubber

stamps sets away as prizes. 

 If you don't have our chalk get some today.

More fun ways to use our chalk

Thanks

For stopping!

Tammylee