This summer has gone by way too fast! I can’t believe it’s already mid-August and school is just around the corner! I’ve been swamped the last couple months with a work, trips, family, and wedding planning (not mine; been there, done that). We welcomed summer with a trip to Yosemite with my father-in-law during his annual trip to the US from Hong Kong. After a week of Bible Camp we made the 14 hrs drive to WA to visit my family for 2 weeks and got to experience their unusual heat spell in a A/C-less apt. As soon as we got back, I got to help plan a wedding! How many of you can say you helped plan your mother-in-law’s wedding? I sure can! Now there’s only 2 weeks left before school starts and I’m prepping for one last trip to Southern California before we get back into the grind of pickups, dropoffs, ballet, soccer, etc…
While getting a few things ready for school, I made some keychains for the kiddos’ backpacks with some of their favorite characters. I had all the materials leftover from a birthday party many moons ago. My daughter had a birthday back in March and asked for a gymnastics party after she had a blast attending a friend’s birthday party at the same venue. She also wanted the birthday theme to be Strawberry Shortcake so I decided to make bottlecap necklaces and keychains for party favors. I looked around online and found the following method to be the most simple and cute for making these bottlecap necklaces/chains.
Materials:
- Bottlecap size images, printed
- 1″ circle paper puncher
- flattened bottlecaps
- metal hold puncher 1.5 mm
- epoxy stickers 1″
- bottlecap split rings
- E6000 Craft Adhesive
- necklace or key chain
Gather your materials
Carefully stick your 1″ circular image onto the 1″ epoxy sticker. Flatten back to make sure there are no bubbles
Squeeze some E6000 adhesive to inside of bottlecaps and center your epoxy image onto the center. Make sure to work in a well ventilated area and away from children.
Lay out to dry overnight. Then punch a hole on the top of the bottlecap edge and insert split ring. Then place on a necklace or keychain of your choice.
For the party favor, I wrapped a Strawberry Shortcake coloring book in brown wrapping paper, then placed the necklace, crayons and a Strawberry Shortcake tattoo in a pink polka dot baggy (Target).
Finished off with green laundry rope from the Dollartree for a cute Strawberry Shortcake-esque look.
My daughter had a blast at her party with her dear friends and everyone got cute little cupcakes to take home too! You can never have too much cake!
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