Wine corks serve little purpose after finishing a bottle of wine. Sure, you can start a cork collection, but other than that, your options seem pretty limited, right?
Wrong. There are so many things you can do with them once you've popped your bottle. Take this little project, for instance, which takes your collected corks and turns them into beautiful pieces of jewelry. It's a fun, simple, and eye-catching way to make yesterday's trash into today's trinkets.
Before you do anything, you have to prep your corks. Fill a saucepan with a few inches of water...
Place the corks in a strainer over the pan, making sure the strainer and the water do not touch.
Cover the pot and strainer and let the water boil for ten minutes.
This will make your corks infinitely easier to cut, which you can do with a knife or small hand saw.
Cut the cork slices at whatever width you want for your pendants. When you're finished, sand down the rough parts for smoothness on both sides.
Cover your newly smoothed corks with either ink or paint and allow it to dry.
After your cork is dry, use any size stamp to cover your cork with a delightful pattern.
For best results, press your cork into the stamp, instead of the other way around. Let it dry before you add any other textures.
Take a five-millimeter eye screw and twist it into the top side of the cork.
If you want to wear your cork pendant, you can thread a necklace through the newly placed eye.
You can also wear them as bracelet charms, hang them on your wall, or even make them into earrings!
Source:viralnova.com
Wrong. There are so many things you can do with them once you've popped your bottle. Take this little project, for instance, which takes your collected corks and turns them into beautiful pieces of jewelry. It's a fun, simple, and eye-catching way to make yesterday's trash into today's trinkets.
Before you do anything, you have to prep your corks. Fill a saucepan with a few inches of water...
Cover the pot and strainer and let the water boil for ten minutes.
This will make your corks infinitely easier to cut, which you can do with a knife or small hand saw.
Cover your newly smoothed corks with either ink or paint and allow it to dry.
After your cork is dry, use any size stamp to cover your cork with a delightful pattern.
Take a five-millimeter eye screw and twist it into the top side of the cork.
If you want to wear your cork pendant, you can thread a necklace through the newly placed eye.
You can also wear them as bracelet charms, hang them on your wall, or even make them into earrings!
Source:viralnova.com