Bottle Cap Medallion Ornament

I wanted to make an ornament for my sisters (3) and my bother (1) plus me as a remembrance of our dad who passed away a year ago.

I took a non used non crimped bottle cap (thanks Pete!) and ran it through my Cuttlebug to flatten it out. You get a wonderful flare ridge.
Took my Crop-a-Dial and punched two holes in the top and bottom. The top hole is for the hanging string/ribbon. The bottom hole is for a dangle of a charm.
I printed pictures of our dad from last year Father's Day and cut them our with a circle punch. Perfect fit! Glued them to the center.

Now to make the medallion - I saw numerous folks making this as flowers for cards - but I wanted to put it under the bottle cap as I thought it gave it the right above of flare.
I cut a 1" x 12 inch piece of double sided card stock and use my Martha Stewart scoreboard and scored every 1/4". (Could not do this without the scoreboard!)
Fold back and forth and the ends are adhered together with glue to form a circle.
Smush down in the middle and you have a flower of sorts.
Have a couple punch circles ready to put one in the back to keep it all together. I used a glue gun and worked quickly as they will spring back up.

I added ribbon and a cross charm and handed them out at my sister's gathering on Saturday,

Altered Bottle Caps

I got this idea from easy peasy grandma blog, the girls showed how they make jewelry from bottle caps. I wanted to use them as danglers on mini albums.

Here are some I made today just messing around with the idea. (sorry the pictures are poor quality - must be the night time using my poor lighting in my craft room)
I'll keep in my stash perhaps to hang off an album ring with fancy ribbon or yarn.
As mentioned in the article above blog, they used a quarter as a guide to cut the paper, I happened to have a 1" circle punch from Creative Memories which was easier than tracing and cutting.
I added some glitter on top of the designer paper from SU and then Mod Podge over it. (You can't see the glitter - prettier in person)

The next one I glued down the DSP from SU and added the dragonfly charm (from Hirschberg Schulz & Co, (I bought these at Micheal's clearance section some time ago - 12 for 1.99 USD.)) covered all of it with Mod Podge. (This is my favorite)

The last one I added a flower bead and added frosted seed beads and seals it with Mod Podge. (I may be tossing this one in the trash!)

You can add buttons, stamp images, photos. The ideas are endless! I will be getting some unused bottle caps and will be making more. (My BIL has some from a local brewery)

FYI I used my Crop-A-Dile to punch the hole on the side, you can use a nail and a hammer as well. Then slip a jump ring through the loop and use for whatever