I have noticed lately that there is a fashion for large plastic rings around at the moment so I thought I would have a go at my own. Here's mine .........
A buttercup ring made from the 'butter' tub!
Materials
- Yellow plastic butter tub
- Ring blank or Gold wire and a scrap of yellow craft foam
- 3 light green seed beads
- Super glue
- Needle & thread
- Small sharp decoupage scissors
Instructions
1. The first step is to remove all the borders from the tub so you have flat sheets of plastic to work with. Then cut a small simple 5 petal flower shape from a piece of the plastic.
2. Now cut a small circle from another piece of the tub which looks the right size to make the centre of the flower and cut slits around the edge towards the centre as shown above. Now using a heat gun gently heat the edges of your circle so they start to curl up slightly and separate. You will need to hold down the centre of the circle with a pair of tweezers and do the heating in short bursts to avoid a melted mess!
3. Using the super glue, stick the two parts together and leave to dry. Once completely dry, glue 3 light green seed beads onto the centre of the flower using super glue and set aside to dry completely.
4. If you do not have a ring blank (like me), you will now need to make a ring. Wind a length of wire around your finger 3 times make sure it feels comfortable and is not too tight. Now neatly bind the 3 strands together tightly with some more wire making sure the edges of the wire are covered.
5. Cut a small circle from a scrap of yellow craft foam and stitch it firmly to the wire ring.
You now have a ring blank - of sorts!
6. Now glue your flower onto your ring back and there you are a cute little flower ring!
I could have painted out the printing on the back of the flower but I thought it was actually quite nice to leave it there!
