Perfume bottles contribute to your jewelry crafts in an eco-conscious way.
Instead of getting rid of your empty perfume and cologne bottles, re-purpose them into an environmentally friendly craft. Knowing make wearable jewelry from your discarded fragrance bottles requires creativity and an assortment of crafting materials. While this craft can be completed by beginners, it's also one that takes practice and devotion, in order to create quality one-of-a-kind pieces.
Instructions
1. Place a small perfume bottle in a pillowcase. Select a colored bottle that is decorative in a way you find pleasing. A wide array of fragrances are found in bottles that are too pretty to throw away. Keep the pillowcase on a hard, flat surface, such as the floor.
2. Smash the bottle once with a hammer, keeping it securely in the pillowcase. Carefully remove only the larger pieces and discard the small, unusable shards.
3. Sand the edges of the broken shards with a handheld jewelry multi-tool and a sanding attachment bit. This smooths the sharp edges to prevent injury.
4. Snip an 8-inch length of wire from the roll. Use a thin, flexible gauge.
5. Wrap the wire around a sanded shard of perfume bottle glass to make an "X" shape. Wrap once diagonally around the shard, and then once horizontally around the middle of the shard. Then, wrap diagonally a second time in the opposite direction. This creates a stable wire around the glass for jewelry making.
6. Attach a ring finding to one corner of the wire-wrapped glass shard. Pry open the ring slightly, then slide it into the wire. Close the ring finding by squeezing it. This piece of perfume bottle can be used for a variety of jewelry making applications.
7. Slide the ringed shard of glass down the length of a chain or jewelry cord and fasten it with your choice of clasp findings.
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