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Plastic Bottle Earrings


An interesting solution for the partial disposal of plastic bottles is to make ... earrings out of them. Such jewelry looks no worse than ordinary plastic jewelry, and if everything is done carefully, then perhaps better.

We will need:
Shvenzy - 2 pcs.,
Beads - 2 pcs.,
Plastic bottles of different colors - 2-3 pcs.,
Wire,
Scissors.

Plastic Bottle Earrings


Wash bottles, remove caps. Cut the tapering neck from the bottle, fold it so that the walls are in contact and cut into strips of the same width.

Plastic Bottle Earrings


The width of the stripes is arbitrary, but keep in mind that the thinner the strip, the more “openwork” earrings will turn out. Each earring requires 2-3 strips. Colored plastic (brown, dark green) looks best, but you can add transparent stripes to it.

Plastic Bottle Earrings


Combine the cut parts, fold them with an eight (or an infinity sign, as you like) and fold them so that the edges are together.

Plastic Bottle Earrings


Secure the edges with wire. Holding the wire hold the plastic over an open flame, for example, above a gas burner. Do not bring close to the fire! It is enough to keep at a distance, the plastic will still begin to curl. For uniform melting, the wire with the future earring must be turned. Compare the blank “before” and “after”.

Plastic Bottle Earrings

Plastic Bottle Earrings


Remove the wire from the obtained blanks and replace it with a thinner, decorative one. String a bead on the wire and attach the end of the wire to the stud. Shvenzy are usually sold in sets with beads. They can be removed from old catkins or made independently from wire.

Plastic Bottle Earrings


Non-standard earrings are obtained, to which beads can also be made. You can cut the plastic and fold it in different ways - as you like. For example, you can melt the middle or only the edges. In addition, when hot, plastic blanks are very pliable, they can be formed at your discretion, twisted into a spiral, straightened in the shape of a flower, etc.

Plastic Bottle Earrings
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Comments (1)
  1. Angelinka
    #1 Angelinka Guests August 22, 2017 23:37
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    Cute earrings. I immediately thought that they were made of tubes for droppers, as it was before, in ancient times. And then the plastic bottles went into use, how many of them have already been invented interesting and useful.

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