Saturday, December 12, 2015

Recycled Juice Bottle Snowmen

Looking for a cute winter recycled project?  Empty bottles of lemon juice make great snowmen!   Especially wonky ones!
And we all can use a little wonkiness in our lives from time to time. 
 
It was so much fun putting these cuties together using:
Lemon juice bottles
Hot knife
White duct tape
Snow-tex
Plastic knife
Scissors
Hot glue/quick drying fabric glue
Black stiff felt
Red Fleece
Cardboard
Styrofoam cups
Twigs
Orange foam sheet
Plaid ribbon
Beads/seed beads
Embellishments
 
 
To begin, remove the labels from the bottles and clean with soap and water
 
Remove the bottle top using a hot knife or craft knife.
 
 
And cover the opening with  white duct tape.

 
Next, spray on a white primer and let dry.

 
Then spread on Snow-tex using a plastic knife or palette and let dry for a few hours following directions.
 



Once the Snow-tex is dry, it's time for the fun to begin!  Let's start at the top!
 
There are several tutorials for top hats available and I'm sure most look better than what I came up with. But I wanted something a bit firmer than plain felt so I'm using Styrofoam cups for the body of the hat, and gluing the felt and fleece onto it..  I started by cutting off the bottom of a Styrofoam cup after measuring how high I wanted the hat. Then measured the height and length of the felt that I needed to cover the cup and cut out. Next, glue the felt on the cup. 

 
To close the top opening, cut out a cardboard circle the size of the cup mouth and glue it onto felt.  Cut off the excess felt and glue the circle to the top of the felt hat body.

 
For the brim,  add about two inches to the mouth of the cup as a pattern and cut it out in felt.  Cut out (crisscross) opening, as pictured, to glue brim onto inside of the felt hat body.
 

Cool hat!
 
 
Next, glue on beads for the eyes, twigs for the arms, and seed beads for the mouth.  Oops!

 
For the nose, follow the illustrations below and glue on the finished nose. 
 
 
Small branch slices were cut for the buttons and glued on.
 

Sprigs of faux white sprays, berries, and holly leaves,  - (cut out of glitter foam sheets) were also added!


My man!

 
The second bottle was decorated in a girlie fashion using red fleece with cardboard sandwiched between two layers for stiffness.
 
 
The brim was attached in the same manner as the first.
 

Had fun decorating and adding embellishments to both snowman and snow lady.
Love the tied on neck ribbons and the beaded buttons! Rubbed on rouge for the cheeks and added a few rhinestones to the hat!

 
Love the wonkiness!
 


What a fun snow couple!

 
Take a little time to enjoy
and
Happy Holiday Crafting!
 
 
 
 


14 comments:

  1. Cute!!! Looks fun to make and I love the wonkiness too. I'll never look at lemon juice the same LOL!

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  2. Cute!!! Looks fun to make and I love the wonkiness too. I'll never look at lemon juice the same LOL!

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  3. Gail, super duper project. Love the snow people. My Mother would love this craft! Merry Christmas

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  4. How cute...you'd never know they were from a juice box! You're very creative!
    Visiting from Snickerdoodle Sunday! xoxo Lisa @ Fun Money Mom

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  5. Gail, I love your projects and can't wait to see what you will be making to share next! The snowman is adorable! Thank you for sharing with us at Snickerdoodle Sunday! Pinning and tweeting to share.
    ~Laurie

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  6. These are fabulous, Gail. I love them both. Pinned and Tweeted! The details on their hats are adorable!

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  7. these juice bottle snowmen are totally cool (or cold!)! great detailing and thanks for the tute!

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  8. Very creative to use the juice bottles this way. I love snowman. These are too cute.

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  9. These are adorable! Very creative and a great way to recycle. I have some small juice bottles. I know what I'm going to make. Thanks for sharing! Pinning and sharing!

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  10. Your snowmen are so cute Gail! I love that they started out at lemon juice containers. They are really wonderful!

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  11. Your snowmen are so cute Gail! I love that they started out at lemon juice containers. They are really wonderful!

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  12. Your snowmen are so adorable!!! Thanks for sharing at the Submarine Sunday Link Party!!

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