Disclosure: My family owns the brewery featured in this post but the concept, opinions and promotion shown in this post are all my own thought and design! This is not a sponsored post.
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Spot of Tea Designs readers have already met my dad, a laid back guy who works in the craft beer industry. (and the best daddy in the world)
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Last year I asked him to save me some used beer caps for an art project. Instead he gave me these:
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A few brandy new beer caps. With a clock kit ordered from ebay, I got to work turning these pieces into a clock for his office at the brewery, a gift for Father’s Day!
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Supplies:
- 12 x 12 inch white canvas
- Clock kit
- Acrylic Paint and Paintbrush
- Scrapbook Paper
- Mod Podge
- 12 beer caps
- Glue gun (not pictured)
- Ruler
- Pencil
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I first started by painting the edges of the canvas with green paint.
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Next I realized I don’t know how to use Mod Podge. haha. I messed up with the first sheet of paper (shown in the supplies shot). Take two! I applied a generous coat of decoupage glue on the back of the paper and laid it on the canvas. I tried to push out all the air bubbles but it began to curl. After semi drying (did I need to dry it more?) I applied another coat on top of the paper to seal it onto the canvas.
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When it dried, there were some wrinkles in the paper on the canvas. It wasn’t all over (which might’ve looked cool) but only in a few spots on one side. To distract from this error I decided to try to blend that mishap in with a little dry brushing technique. I like how it came out!
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Next I used the grids on my cutting mats and a ruler to determine the center point of the canvas. I made a hole to insert the clock parts.
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You can see the clock base on the back here. I used hot glue to secure this piece in place and ensure that it wouldn’t spin and keep more accurate time.
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Next I assembled the clock pieces. I arranged all the beer caps on the front in a large circle at the designated areas for each hour then glued them down using hot glue. After inserting a battery into the device, this baby was ready to tell time. (side note: I didn’t think about it later but I probably should’ve photographed the clock at 5pm, as you know “it’s 5 o’clock somewhere.” :)
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Looking for another fun beer craft? Buy him a 6 pack of his favorite brew and dress it up with some pasta bowties!
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Or turn the 6 pack holders into coasters to hold their brew!
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And when it’s Christmas season, make dear old dad or your craft beer loving man a bottle cap ornament!
Smart idea with the caps!! Maybe I can collect different sort of caps from soda and make a vintage looking clock! Thanks for the inspiration :)
Yes! That sounds like a great idea! Email me if you make one! I’m open to sharing reader features based on something they saw on my blog! :)