100% Recycled Button/Pins C:

  ✂︎

Favorite

Comment

List

       

Share

• 

  Step 1

  Get together your soda tab, bottle cap, Safety pin, and design for your button (I'm using a cherry blossom tree cut out from a music magazine)

• 

  Step 2

  Put a thin layer of glue on the back of the piece of paper c:

• 

  Step 3

  You should have something that looks like this!

• 

  Step 4

  Set that aside and grab your safety pin and soda tab. c:

• 

  Step 5

  This isn't the best picture, but you should open your safety pin and put the soda tab smooth face up.Put the safety pin through one hole of the soda tab and under the middle bit, and bring the head of the safety pin up through the remaining hole. Close the safety pin and set it aside.

• 

  Step 6

  Go ahead and cut the excess paper around the bottle cap c:

• 

  Step 7

  Place the safety pin attached to the soda tab inside of the bottle cap like so

• 

  Step 8

  Take your pliers, and fold down the edges all around your bottle cap. This part isn't the most fun if you've got bassist hands like I do. But bare with me haha. This basically keeps the soda tab snug and secure c:

• 

  Step 9

  Once you flip it over, you see that you've now got a new button for your collection! c:

• 

  Step 10

  This bit is optional, but you can prop up your pin to add shine to it by adding a thin layer of Dimensional Magic, this stuff it amazing, just let it dry for 2-3 hours c: It's also very forgiving, because if you accidentally touch it, you can just add a few more drops on top and it looks brand new!

• 

  Step 11

  Here's a closer look at one of my favorite DIY buttons that I've made. It shows Jimi Hendrix and I saved $5 by making this myself! I'm in love! c:

Comments

Leave your comment

Conn · San Francisco, California, US · 134 projects 25th July 2013

Very clever!

PsychedelicParadox · Glendale, Arizona, US · 1 project 27th July 2013

Thank you! I couldn't find my button making machine, so I tried something new c:

Reply