Hi everyone…Beth here. Bottle caps have always fascinated me for many crafty ideas and are now making a gripping comeback in a whole new way. They are one of the hottest new embellishments for scrapbooks with a versatility that seems endless… from page accents to little frames for photos and more!<\/p>\n
ngg_shortcode_0_placeholderB<\/span>eth Ervin. Supplies here<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n First, think beyond the basics of photos inside your bottle caps, try a mini collage using torn scrap paper, wire, charms or glitter for a little extra sparkle. String a few together, or “hang” things from them on your page.<\/p>\n Here are just a few different ways to use bottle caps in your scrapbook layouts and cards.<\/p>\n -Spell out page titles, names, expressions, phrases, or personalize projects with monograms<\/p>\n ngg_shortcode_1_placeholderB<\/span>eth Ervin. Supplies here<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n -Change hues on your bottle caps any color to match your layout<\/p>\n -Use your elliptical marquee tool to create a custom circle covers from photos, papers or ephemera for the inside or top of the bottle cap<\/p>\n -Think creative with the circular shape and create things\u00a0like snowmen or use a bottle cap as the center of the flower (like my first layout above)<\/p>\n -Distress bottle caps for the old antique look by playing with different blend modes, picking up color or texture from the paper beneath<\/p>\n -Place a glass bubble or pebble over what you fill your bottle cap with to mimic a traditional glue or glaze<\/p>\n ngg_shortcode_2_placeholderB<\/span>eth Ervin. Supplies here<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Cottage Arts has two different bottle cap AlphaSets, Retro<\/a><\/em> and Rusty<\/a><\/em>, grade bottle caps in Scrap.Words – School Days<\/em><\/a>, decorative ones in Train Pak<\/a>,<\/em> with loads of other circular items to fill these in our digital kits.\u00a0 Check out Count on Me<\/em><\/a> for a few circular accents that fit nicely.<\/p>\n Get creative and use bottle caps to jazz up one of your next layouts!<\/p>\n Happy New Year!<\/p>\n Michelle, Beth, and the Team at CottageArts.net<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hi everyone…Beth here. Bottle caps have always fascinated me for many crafty ideas and are now making a gripping comeback in a whole new way. They are one of the hottest new embellishments for scrapbooks with a versatility that seems endless… from page accents to little frames for photos and more! Beth Ervin. Supplies here First, think beyond the basics […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-products","category-team-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2664"}],"version-history":[{"count":41,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2706,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664\/revisions\/2706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}