The layout was featured on the Crate Paper blog in December! They said they had never seen their border stickers used as a banner and that it was "very clever". : ) Gotta love that comment coming from the talented folks at Crate Paper. Buzz on over to The Scrapbooking Studio to pick up this versatile line. Other supplies are kraft and wooden snowflakes from Maya Road.
The snowman below is made with bottle caps from Maya Road. I love the names of the bottle cap sizes. I used the Jumbo, Mega and Super Mega sizes that are in the bulk section at the store. If you wanted to make the snowman a bit smaller, you could use just the mini, jumbo and mega sizes.
It's super easy to make (except for step 2)
- Measure the tops of the bottle caps and cut circles to match (do not adhere until step three).
- Make holes on one side of the smallest and largest of the bottle caps and then both sides of the middle bottle cap. Then use thin string or embroidery floss to tie the pieces together. (The Maya Road blog says you can make the holes with a crop-a-dile. I personally could not make it work and so I ended up using a long paper piercer.)
- After they're tied together, adhere paper to the tops of the caps. Adhering it after they're tied together insures that any patterns will align correctly.
- Add buttons to the middle and bottom circles.
- Create eyes, a nose, and a mouth. I used chipboard letter stickers to create the eyes and mouth. The eyes are the dots to the letter "i" and the mouth is a capital Q cut apart. The nose is just orange cardstock cut in a long triangle.
- The arms are Maya Road tree branches colored brown with brown ink.
- The hat is cardstock: a square adhered to a squatty rectangle, with a border sticker added for color.
- And finally some ribbon for a scarf.
- Optional step: add a little hanger to the back so he can be hung on the wall. If you make the hanger fairly short, it will be hidden by the hat.
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