Good day everyone! I was kinda busy these past
few weeks (as always!) and lot of my projects have been held up because of
that. So I decided to make something simple instead. This is another up-cycling
project – turning a plastic soda bottle into a vase. Yep, nothing new here.
It’s just a simple and easy project. However one of the step is new to
me and I’m a bit struggling about it. We’ll get into that soon.
First of all, the material. I chose the
standard 1.5 litre soda bottle for the job. The idea is to cut the bottle into
two-third of its height and cut out a flowery pattern on it. I drew a simple
flower motif with four equal length “petals” with additional flower and leaf
hole patterns beneath it.
Cutting the flower petals is a daunting task
but doable with a small scissors. The problem is with the hole patterns.
Plastic bottle is quite thick and I couldn’t use cutter or craft knife to cut
it, like, at all. The only solution is a youtube video that I saw where someone
crafting the similar plastic bottle using a heated soldering iron.
With that solution in mind I grab an unused
soldering iron, heat it up and start melting the plastic. A word of caution
here, burning plastic is hazardous, I did it outdoors as it produce fumes. This
is where it gets tricky, it is difficult to draw a pattern with a soldering
iron. Lol. First you need a steady hand, and press just enough pressure to melt
the plastic and create a hole. And then I slowly drag it over to create a
pattern. Even when all of this is done successfully you still have those excess
melted plastic all over the pattern you just made. In other word, it’s a bit
messy.
I was thinking of heating the plastic (with a
lighter or something), let it melt and tidy up the mess with a cutter. In the
end I abort the idea as it might make it worst. So I just make do with trimming
the plastic with scissors and cutter instead. The end result is not that pretty
though, but I take it as a free hand-style type of pattern (keep positive!).
To finish it up I add two layers of coating –
a top white with a gold bottom. I thought that making two tones of color would
make it more appealing. See below for the end results:
ardee
October 2017
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