Soda Bottle Heart Shaped Box

Can you imagine creating a beautiful heart shaped box from a soda bottle? I certainly can! And I've actually done it many years ago which you can check out here! But this time I wanted something a bit smaller and more glamorous. Plus, making one or more of these is a great way to recycle/upcycle some of those plastic soda bottles hurting our environment! And I love that I also used a few other recyclable items such as the clear plastic serving tray lid I got from the deli and the clear plastic strip covering store bought ribbon! 

Materials:

• Plastic soda bottle - 2 liters
• Craft knife/craft scissors
• Bone folder
• Cardstock
• Pencil
• Clear plastic serving tray lid
• Chalk pen
• Microfiber cloth
• Clear plastic strips (from ribbon)
• Fabric-Tac Quick Dry Adhesive
• Adhesive back Diamond Wrap (DollarTree) 

How to:

Let's start with a clean 2 liter plastic soda bottle.

Remove the paper label around the soda bottle and start cutting the middle top portion with a craft knife.

It was easier for me to use small sharp craft scissors to .  .  . 

 cut around the top and bottom, 

which left a closed cylinder shape.

 Press together the plastic cylinder, creasing one side with a bone folder or the handle on scissors. 

Next, open the center and press the opposite side toward the first crease, creating two loops while making a second crease.

Then let the plastic open naturally forming a heart shape.

To make a heart template for the top and bottom, draw around the plastic heart shape you just created on cardstock and .  .  . 

cut out.

Then use the cardstock template to draw the top and bottom on the clear plastic serving tray lid .  .  .

using a chalk pen.

And cut the heart shapes out..

Use a dry microfiber cloth to remove the chalk lines.

And you have two clear plastic hearts for the top and bottom of the heart box.

Now, it's time to glue one of the heart shapes to the bottom of the soda bottle heart using Fabri-Tac quick drying glue. To do this, run a thin line of glue on the edge of the plastic.

And carefully press the soda bottle edge onto the edge of the flat plastic heart - holding in place until the glue sets.

While the glue is setting, take the strip of plastic (from ribbon) and  measure a  one inch strip to cut out. 

Then glue on the strip of clear plastic around the second flat heart for the top.

  

               

Once the glue is dry, it's time to decorate the top and bottom using adhesive backed diamond wrap. To start, cut out three rows of "diamond" strips from the wrap.

Remove the backing and apply the strip to the front of the top starting at the heart curve and .  .  .

and down to the v shape.

First one side and .  .  .

up the other side.  Don't you just love how this is beginning to look!

Once the front is done, it time to do the sides of the top and then the bottom.

Continue adding the stones to the bottom, cutting the diamond wrap at two rows this time.

For an adorable glamorous, finished look!

Perfect to store trinkets, candies, or any type of tchotchkes!

TOP

BOTTOM

Top and Bottom Together 

And with some Hershey's Kisses!  - Perfect for gift giving, too!

Welcome to our monthly   Sustainable Craft Challenge hosted by Julie @Sum of their Stories!  This challenge is all about sustainable crafting! Each month is themed and all projects must have some sort of a sustainable element to them. This could be an upcycling or recycling element, or something that reduces waste, uses leftovers, etc. The theme for the month of February is Hearts!  

Be sure to check out all the creative Hearts Sustainable Crafts projects from my fellow crafters listed below:

Julie @ Sum of their Stories - Scrap Fabric Hearts

Mel @ Decor Craft Design - DIY Valentine Heart Sign Upcycled Pistachio Shells

Terri @ Our Good Life - DIY Hearts Machine

Gail @ Purple Hues and Me - Soda Bottle Heart Shaped Box

Niki @ Life as a LEO Wife - DIY Faux Concrete Bunny

Christine @ Christine’s Crafts  -  Small Crochet Hearts

T’onna @ Sew Crafty Crochet - Crochet Patchwork Heart

Marci @ Old Rock Farmhouse - Doodle Hearts Collage

Shelly @ Mimi – A Great Name for Grandma - DIY Valentine Rag Wreath Heart

Metal Tub Decoupage Makeover

Goodwill is my one stop place to shop for items to upcycle and make over! And I bet you didn't know that Goodwill has an online shop plus Amazon sells thrift items from Goodwill, too!  Goodwill certainly is a fun place to go to get crafty! You just never know what you might find. Like this metal tub with a Christmas holiday logo on front. It was just $4.00!

Imagine what you can do with this once you make it over! Use it for storage for your craft supplies or a party tub to hold just about anything like ice, sodas, snacks, decorations and even plants - the possibilities are endless! 

Perfect for me to "do over" for our very first "Do It Over" Designers Hop for the new year! The "Do It Over Designers" is a group of creative bloggers who love to recycle/upcycle/ DIY, hosted by Anne @The Apple Street Cottage. It happens the 4th Saturday of every other month and it's all about taking something old and/or unused and 'doing it over' into something new. Anything from fabric, old dishes, and decor, to dressers and hutches. Items found in closets, cabinets, barns, garages, yard sales, thrift stores, you name it! Thanks Anne for hosting this wonderful blog hop!

The materials I used to "do over" this metal tub include:

• Multi-surface paint/chalk paint (white)
• Sponge brush/paint brushes
• Paper Napkins
• Water brush pen
• Extra sharp scissors
• Mod Podge (matte)
• Foam sheet
• Plastic (Ziplock) sheet
• Parchment paper
• Iron
• Ball Stylus
• Foam sponge (thick)
• Hot Glue gun and glue stick
• Seed Beads

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How to:

Fortunately, I had everything in my stash for this makeover! So let's get started by making sure the tub container is clean and free of any grease and grime by cleaning and washing it with mild dish detergent like Dawn and let dry. The tub was in perfect condition. Free of any dents or imperfections! I just needed to cover up the holiday logo on the front.

That proved to be a bit of a challenge to do. 

I applied several coats of white paint including white chalk paint to cover  the logo, but nothing I had seemed to match the color of the metal tub.

I did manage to cover the logo, but now there is a big blob of white on the front. Not to worry, though!  

I'm always on the look out for napkins with purple in it and found these on the Temu site I discovered last fall. After opening the napkin and laying it on my work surface, I used a brush pen filled with water to outline the portion of the napkin I will use. I love how the brush pen works! Instead of dipping a regular brush in water, you simply add water to the barrel of the pen and squeeze it to wet the brush! Pretty cool, huh!

Then tear the water outlined portion of the napkin out, feathering the edges  .  .  .

and separating the printed layer from the plain white layer. I have to say that this napkin was very hard to separate the layers. I had to lightly dip my forefinger in Mod Podge and tap my thumb and forefingers together to get them sticky. 

                        

Then tap the edge of the napkin with my fingers until the layers easily separated. 

Next, apply a layer of Matte Mod Podge to the front area of the tub and place the feathered napkin on top. When I did this, I didn't  like how the feathered napkin looked on the front. So I quickly removed the napkin and went to plan B .  .  .

which was cutting the individual flowers out. 

Then adding them on the front of the tub separately. First by brushing on a layer of Mod Podge, 

then gently smoothing the napkin flower design down and .  .  .

                                 using the brush to help smooth the flowers out. 

I also used a clear plastic ziplock bag which I cut open to smooth any remaining wrinkles out.

The individual flowers looked great together, and .  .  .

looked even better after adding a bit of foliage around.

Then I got the cool idea to make the flowers on the front dimensional using foam sheets. So I placed a large foam sheet on my work surface and .  .  .

painted on a layer of Matte Mod Podge. 

Then placed an open napkin (pattern up) down on top of the foam sheet and used an open plastic ziplock bag to smooth the napkin out.

And let dry.

Once the napkin and foam was dry, it was time to cut out the large purple foam backed flowers.

To add to the dimension, a few of the flower petals were cut out individually.

Then heated for a few seconds using a hot iron and .  .  .

pressed on thick foam using a ball stylus to give the flowers dimension.

Hot glue was then added to the center of the flower .  .  .

and seed beads poured gently into the center for added dimension.

How cool does this look!

The center flower!

And with all three dimensional flowers!

I'm really loving this look!

A fun way to store paper napkins!

Contain anything and everything with this cool looking tub makeover! It's deep enough to keep things upright, craft supplies organized and essentials always where you need them!

Thanks for stopping by!

Be sure to visit all of this month's creative Projects by the 

"Do It Over Designers" listed below:

Southern Sunflowers

Sum of Their Stories

Tea and Forget-Me-Nots

Pandora’s Box

Color Me Thrifty

The Apple Street Cottage

Birdz of a Feather

Exquisitely Unremarkable

Little Vintage Cottage

Modern on Monticello

Purple Hues & Me