1. Make sure your Bottle Caps are clean and free of lint.

2. Ink up your rubber stamp with the StazOn Permanent Ink in just the area that you want to print onto your Bottle Cap (the face, for instance). Test on paper FIRST. It is important to ‘season’ the stamp first by stamping it a few times, especially with finely detailed photo-type images such as these. Some people swear by using a brayer to evenly apply ink; for myself, I find simply stamping a few times first on scrap paper helps for a good print. Try both and see what works best for you!

3. Ink the stamp up again. If it is a smaller stamp, you can lay the Bottle Cap face up and bring the stamp to the Bottle Cap. Press Firmly, and gently rock to each side as well as to the top and bottom to get the entire image on the face of the Bottle Cap. Do this carefully so as to not wiggle or slide and smear the image. If you do, you can immediately clean the smeared image off with the StazOn Cleaner and a clean rag and try again!

4. If you are using a larger rubber stamp, lay the stamp face up on the table and ink up the portion you wish to stamp. Press your Bottle cap into the inked image and press all around the inside of the Cap. Gently lift the Bottle Cap up by the sides and lay it down, face up to dry. This ink dries very quickly. I did not seal my Bottle Caps with a spray sealer, but you could if you wished to protect them from scratches.
 

Journal Cover. For a simple project, I decorated a small journal cover. I stamped the same image as I had stamped on one of the Bottle Caps on a scrap of glossy paper, and glued it to the front of the journal with Tacky glue. Then I used the E-6000 glue and glued the Bottle Cap down with just a bit of ribbon underneath. Easy & fast!

Canvas Board Collage. I created a collage on a canvas board that I could “frame” with some of the Bottle Caps. I did a transfer of an old photo of myself as a girl to the canvas board. I layered ARTchix Studio Transparencies over that transfer, adding bits of paper & fabric with Tacky Glue, and spraying a little walnut ink on the blank canvas. I also did some stamping with permanent StazOn Ink. Then, with the E-6000 glue which works with metal, I glued on the Brass Word Tags, Mini Star Charms, Brass Gears, Brass Decorative Corners and the Bottle Caps. I used both the ARTchix Bottle Caps that I had stamped on and some old soda caps I had saved, for interest!

Button Covers. My last idea for the stamped Bottle Caps was to attach Button Covers to them and make them into buttons!! Metal Button Covers are something you can find in the Notions & Button department at the fabric store. Or ARTchix Studio has them too. They are designed to be covered with fabric to match your outfit, how cool! Instead of covering them, I snapped them together uncovered, and glued them into the back of the Bottle Cap with the E-6000 Glue. This gave me a metal shank that I could use to sew them onto things. I sewed one onto the cover of a new Fabric Book I am making, one onto the front of a sweatshirt and one on a card. You could also use them as actual buttons. They are large, more the right size for a coat. They would look great on something funky like a decorated blue jean jacket, although you might just have to enlarge the buttonholes just a little bit.
 

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