Beer Bottle Cap Coasters

Beer Bottle Cap Coasters

 Here I show two ways of making awesome coasters from your leftover bottle caps.

**Glitter is optional :) **

 

 

Option #1 Cork bottom

Clear silicone was used to attached the bottle caps to the acrylic.  

 

These cork circles cutouts are from Hobby Lobby and are already coaster size (3$).

 

Option #2 Clear bottom

 

The bottom of the coaster has three felt pads attached

Here is how you make them.

 

Start with a square of clear thin acrylic about the size of the coaster (Lowes). I used a dremel tool to cut it into a circle and sanded the edged so they wouldn't be sharp.

 

Any old diecut plastic sheet works. A metal die would probably be better and I will be trying that later. 

Cuttlebug Type A mount

 

Rubber mat

 

Cuttlebug Type B pad

Above is the four components that make up my cap flattening sandwich. This all comes with the Cuttlebug except the mat.

 

The Cuttlebug is no cheap piece of machinery, however Michaels always has coupons for 50% off one item (hint, hint).

 

The Cuttlebug works great to flatten the caps. There are million ways to flatten the caps, and how you choose is up to you!

 

The sandwich I use to crush the caps flat.

 

The caps come out relatively flat. If you where to use decorative caps bought from a craft store they would come out perfectly flat. I have even tried taking out the plastic inside the cap to get them totally flat but to no avail.

 

 They still look quite nice though!

Beer Label Table

Beer Label Craft

Don't waste those beer labels... We decorated our old table using interesting beer labels.

 

 

We used a clear acrylic sheet cut to fit the table to cover the labels. We got the acrylic from Lowe's (they cut it as well)!

 

 

Close up of some of the labels we chose. Still more room to put more cool ones!

The video that shows how we did this.

This was my husbands idea!