Reclaimed Material: aluminum can, beads from SCRAP, old wire
Other/New Material: bobby pins
Tools: small flower punch, straight pin
How I did it: I used the flower shaped craft to punch out four flowers from the aluminum, two blue and two silver. I put one blue flower over a silver one and used the straight pin to poke holes in the centers of the flowers. Then I cut a piece of the wire about 2" and threaded the bead onto the wire and pulled the two ends of the wire through the centers of both flowers. I wrapped the wire around one side of the bobby pin, trimmed the excess and tucked in the edges. I repeated it the steps with the second bobby pin. What I would do differently: I thought I was being clever by reusing a piece of wire from a string of beads I purchased, but this only made this project take about 10x longer than it should have. I was happy to reuse wire, but I would have saved myself a lot of time by using jewelry wire which is more pliable. I will try this again using other shapes and material like colored plastic bits from lids or laundry soap bottles.
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