A beautiful box of plastic bottles with your own hands

Now various types of needlework are very popular. It will never go out of fashion to do something beautiful from improvised materials, in other words, from what some throw into garbage, and others use to create real masterpieces. For example, a box of plastic bottles is made quickly and simply with one's own hands. Having mastered the technology, you can make a variety of products: from everyday containers for storing small items to gift souvenir options.

Possible types of products

Any casket of plastic bottles with their own hands is made by a similar technology. The design is made up of individual elements, for example rectangles, connected together by crocheting simple pillars without a crochet. Accordingly, in a plastic base, holes are made along the edges.

According to this technology, boxes of different shapes can be made:

• Rectangular;
• Square;
• Oval;
• Cylindrical.

It is also interesting to use the figured bottoms of bottles.

Interesting ideas

Design caskets also choose any:

• Open;
• With a lid;
• With several compartments;
• Completely transparent or of colored plastic;
• Painted with acrylic, stained-glass paints, nail polish;
• Decorated with paper applications, including quilling techniques;
• Decorated with Kanzash elements;
• With colored patterns from the scraps of the same plastic bottles.

There are a lot of options, as you can see. On the basis of any one is able to develop their own unique souvenir.

Materials and Tools

In order for you to have a beautiful casket of plastic bottles with your own hands, you will need to prepare the following:

• Transparent or colored blanks;
• Means for removing dirt from the bottle (soap, water, sponge);
• Marker for markup;
• scissors;
• hole puncher;
• Color paper and paper clips (for some options);
• Crochet hook;
• Yarn or nylon thread (the latter is stronger);
• Paints, nail polish, patterns of patterns and other decor, if you decorate the product.

There is nothing complicated and unusual. All that is needed is in the house of each needlewoman. And if not, then it will not be difficult and expensive to buy.

How is the casket made of plastic bottles made by themselves step by step?

So, the work will be done in the following order:

1. Preparation of bottles (wash, dry, remove labels).
2. Making plastic blanks of the desired shape and size.
3. Straightening of parts.
4. Making holes around the perimeter of the elements.
5. Crocheting the edges.
6. Connecting parts.
7. Decoration of the product.

Action is not so much, but at every stage there are nuances. Detailed recommendations are placed in the next section.

Caskets of plastic bottles with their own hands: a master class

Try to start to create a souvenir of simple rectangular shape, for example, with a lid.

Proceed as follows:

1. Prepare those bottles from which you can cut out straight rectangles, and do it. For a product with a lid, you will need two bottom parts and at least 7 or 8 side walls. This is if you make an object transparent single-layer. There is a variant of a two-layer casket, when to connect one piece, for example a lid, a bottom or a side wall, two identical rectangles are connected, and a sheet of colored decorative paper is placed between them. For the second method of parts, you will need twice as much.
2. When the elements are cut out, straighten them with a force on the curved side, for example, with a knife. Double-layered parts must be folded concave sides inside.
3. Process each blank in turn with a punch along all sides. First you need to practice on plain paper of the same size.
4. Tie the crocheted columns without the crochet perimeter of each workpiece, leaving a thread about 20 cm long after securing, to sew the elements together. It is worth noting that in the corners will have to do two bars in one hole to go to the next side of the rectangle.
5. Sew the elements sequentially into a three-dimensional construction.
6. If you make a lid, you should start to sew to the box with a large part, and three side parts - in the second turn.
7. That's ready your casket of plastic bottles. With your hands (photo above) you can make absolutely any decor, or leave it as it is. If you decide to decorate the product, read on.
8. Prepare templates with patterns for souvenir surfaces. Draw them on paper or print them from the Internet. If your casket is transparent, simply place the workpiece and circle the drawing with a marker.
9. Lay the contour in a second layer (volumetric decorative), using nail polish (preferably with a thin brush) or a special composition for stained glass from sets for needlework and children's art.
10. Draw the pattern in different shades of nail polish, acrylic or stained-glass paints.
11. After drying, you can decorate the surface with varnish with sparkles, and also paste beads, patches, small decor.

Your masterpiece is ready.

So, you have learned how to make a casket of plastic bottles with your own hands. Having mastered the basic principles of work, you can easily make many such souvenirs of different shapes, purposes and appearance.