Crafts from wine corks do it yourself

The history of the appearance of cork is closely related to grape alcohol. When people learned how to make wine, they faced the problem of storing it. The containers into which the alcoholic beverage was poured needed to be plugged. At first, the planed pieces were used. Of course, they did not repeat the shape of the neck of the vessels to the nearest millimeter, therefore the wine spoiled quickly. However, it was noticed that when hermetically sealed, the drink not only retained its taste qualities longer, but also improved them over time. Conventional wood was abandoned in favor of softer. It was easier to cut and fit to the desired size. However, when wet because of the swollen "cover" burst neck jugs and bottles. The plugs were sealed with resin.

Much later, they began to make oak bark. The cone-shaped form was recognized as optimal at that time. It was easy to fit such a cork under different-sized necks and it became quite easy to uncork a bottle. Only with the invention of the corkscrew, its shape became cylindrical. The cork itself was driven into the neck to the very edge, which ensures excellent tightness. It is still made by the cortical method of oak, although cheaper plastic analogues began to appear. Wine cork décor can look stylish and expensive. From this, in fact, already unnecessary things, they make toys, charms, stands, frames, pens, decorate vases, chandeliers and boxes with their own hands. There are lots of options for using traffic jams, let's try to understand their diversity and consider the most popular workshops.

Key rings

Charms, perhaps the simplest that can be made from unnecessary wine corks. To get a creative decoration instead of a housekeeper, it takes about five minutes. For work you will need:

  • Anchor bolt with loop;
  • Metal ring;
  • Bung.

In the middle of the last methodically screw the bolt. Then a loop is threaded into the loop. In fact, the key chain is already ready, but you can additionally attach an even smaller trinket on a chain, glue its surface with pieces of fabric, paint it. In more complex cases, metal plates, beads or buttons are strung on the anchor bolt before screwing.

Some skilled workers, instead of a bolt, use a safety pin with a similar loop at the end. This is not recommended, as it will quickly fall off and may even injure the keyring holder. Vkruchenny bolt will sit in a traffic jam tightly.

    

Framework

From wine corks they create such an original frame that it is not a shame to present such a thing even as a present for a special holiday. For work you will need:

  • Corks from champagne or wine;
  • Glue;
  • Wooden or plywood base.

You can cut the base yourself or purchase a cheap, homely frame, which in the future it will not be a shame to close with cork magnificence. So, first you need to decide which side of the cork will “look” at the guests: the lateral cylindrical or lower round. The second option is used less frequently. To create an original frame design and decorate it with “almost honeycombs”, the cork will have to be cut into 4-5 pieces of the same height. If she falls sideways, then simply split. Then the base is smeared with glue and corks are pressed against it. Their location does not have to be strictly horizontal or vertical. Use the combined options when part of the traffic jams looks in one and the other part in the other direction. The variants look original, where from the base material they “weave a pigtail”, that is, they put it in two diagonals, which are located at a right angle to each other. You can complement the almost finished frame with an artificial bunch of grapes, miniature sacks with ties or a tiny straw hat coquettishly hung on a corner. Such crafts will decorate the house and perfectly fit into the French Provence.

Particularly vividly look the framework in which the cork part is “pressed into” the base. To make such beauty, it is necessary to additionally glue on top a thin wooden edging and a central part (PART) under the photo. They should be in front of the cork background, as if with a 3D effect. Such a frame will perfectly fit into the interior of the kitchen and will look original on the wall.

    

Candle holders

You can make candlesticks from caps in several ways. For the simplest of these, only glass packaging and base material are required. Stoppers simply fill the container in half, and on top set the aroma candle in its own metal stand. This way for the "lazy" is devoid of grace, so consider another master class:

  • Take 6-7 plugs and stick them on a round base;
  • In advance, it is necessary to make measurements so that the candle accurately entered the center of the composition;
  • Additionally, so that the cork part does not fall apart, it is tied up with a neat satin ribbon with a flirty bow.

The candlestick is additionally decorated with animal figures, tiny balls, and spruce branches (if it stands next to the Christmas tree for the new year). Traffic jams can be painted in the desired color.

    

Toys

From traffic jams create interesting toys. Technician performance weight. To make a simple man, you can stick tiny handles, legs and neck into certain zones. In some cases, these limbs are not decorated and left in its original form. So the odd job sometimes looks even better. In other cases, they can be wrapped with a cloth or wrapped with threads of different colors. To make a snake fit even plastic plugs. Each of them will play the role of a separate part in the segmented body of the reptile. Between themselves, they are connected with needles, chains and bolts.

To make a giraffe or a deer, you need to stock up with glue or all the same needles / wire. One cork will be the little body to which the cut parts of the other are attached, which serve as legs. Another half will be a muzzle. To give the craftwork a resemblance to a giraffe, you need to add a wire neck. Some skilled workers simply draw funny faces on a cow-based, and then tie up the body, creating body parts from threads. To make a cork raft, simply glue a few plugs together and stick a sail with a toothpick mast in the middle. The boat is made of one tube, cut in half. Such a toy ship is excellent on the water and withstand more than one storm in a glass.

    

Glamorous vases

Cork vases are made in two main ways:

  • Stick the material on the glass base;
  • Laboriously connect the plugs with each other without a frame.

You can also plant tiny flowers in the "hole", made with a knife in a pliable material. It is easy to organize a miniature garden out of a pair of corks. You can glue the material on the glass container in different ways: at angles, diagonally, combining squares with horizontally and vertically located plugs. Each plug is pre-cut in half and glued to the glass base with a flat side. You can add the composition of the “circles”, if the pattern allows it. The main thing is not to create gaps through which the base will shine through. Gluing the plugs between them resembles the process of weaving from willow twigs. You will have to work for a long time and very carefully, because such vases are usually "translucent" and curved rows will negatively affect the visual perception of the whole composition.

Extravagant Chandelier

Cork chandelier looks fresh and nontrivially on the ceiling of one of the rooms of a hunting lodge or a country cottage. The principle of creating such a decor is simple: numerous corks are strung on a frame basis. In its role can be threads, fishing line, wire, metal rods. Often corks only decorate the chandelier, but in some cases a tiny light bulb is placed inside each of them. Previously, the core of such a miniature lamp is cut out with a knife. On the frame of an ordinary chandelier, slender cork rows can dangle freely, like crystal “icicles” in retro versions, or be stretched together with a filament (wire) basis between the frame rings. Here only fantasy is used. Bundles of cork-reed "twigs" adorn creative ceiling lamps, which are used in styles that welcome unusual shapes.


    

Letters and words

Letters with a 3D effect are easy to make yourself. They can be made small in size with a palm or as large as almost half the human height. Also, the alphabet can be static if it is fixed to a wall, or mobile. In the latter case, the letters will be attached to the carrying base. The recipe for creating such a decor is obscenely simple: glue the cork with round bases to the wall, plywood or drywall. This decoration is useful for celebrations when you need to display the name of the person being congratulated. In other cases, the wooden alphabet will decorate the interior, decorated in one of the modern styles. Additionally, small flowers are decorated with beads, pieces of fabric, beads, bows, leaves, flowers.


    

Earrings, necklaces, pendants

Earrings made of this material are round. One cork is enough for two or three pairs of jewelry. Earrings are painted or decorated with small accessories. They fix the plugs to the fasteners with the help of a needle with an eyelet-eyelet, or they drill holes in them and thread the wire into them. The necklace is made on the principle of "connect the fantasy." Corks in it can be the main material or only a decorative element. Connect them with each other using fishing line. It is attached to a needle, which is passed through each piece of the future necklace. Beautifully look not "continuous" options, and jewelry with gaps, between which stretch the ribbon, a strip of beads or a chain. Pendants of corks are decorated with color, placed in a metal frame-frame, decorated with beads, bows, figures of insects and metal rings.

Earrings with an empty middle in which the bead is sized by size look original. Also, in rare cases, the decoration is given a rectangular or square shape. The cork is cut in the middle so that the earring is convex, acquires relief.

    

Jewelry Organizer

Organizer for jewelry to make this material quite easy. Take a piece of plywood of the desired shape and stick to it cork from wine bottles. Which side to attach is an individual question. This improvised stand is placed in a frame. Studs or bolts are attached to the cork base. Earrings, beads, bracelets will be hung on them. This stand can be hung on the wall or attached to it a special holder on the reverse side, so that it remains upright on the table. The same crafts, but smaller sizes, can be hung in the hall under the keys.


    

Stand for pens and pencils

Stand for stationery is made in two ways:

  • On the glass stick cork. The stand will be very voluminous;
  • The plugs are attached to a round / square base, giving them a vertical position.

Products made by both methods look original. It is possible to supplement such a stand with a soft “rug” of corks or with a holder under the leaves for records. It is created using a simple notch into which the paper will be inserted. The bottom of the cork must be cut down to give it stability.

Board for notes

The board for notes is created by the same principle as the stand for jewelry. The only difference is that they usually try to give it an original form: a heart, a tree, a flower. Photos and reminder notes attached to the board using ordinary buttons. An original solution would be to place the base in an old frame from the mirror.

Simple, but luxurious will look board in the shape of a heart, painted with ombre effect. The bottom of the decor is made in dark shades of tone and gradually move to a lighter one. The color gradation looks stylish and original.

    

Unique stand for mobile phone

Stand for mobile do two main ways:

  • They glue the plugs between themselves and form a “knoll” of regular triangular shape. One of its sides will support the back cover of the phone. To keep the device in the right position at the very bottom, an additional plug is fixed, which protrudes slightly and breaks the geometric correctness of the composition.
  • Three plugs fasten together. In their surface cut a deep recess under the phone. Approximately by the middle of such a "raft" three more plugs are glued, but in a horizontal position. Phone bottom side will go into the groove on the base. Back wall, he will rely on cork support.

Even luxurious “chairs” for mobile phones can be made from this material. Additionally, they are wrapped in velvet or leather, but such options will take a lot of time and effort.

Kitchen coasters

From stoppers glued together, make coasters for hot, which are used in the kitchen. Oak bark poorly conducts heat, so it will protect the sensitive surface of the table from thermal "burns." It is impossible to use plastic plugs for these purposes. Under the action of temperature, they melt and tightly stick to the bottom of a hot pan, simultaneously filling the kitchen with the indescribable aroma of burnt plastic.


    

New Year's decor

The main subject of New Year's decor in the apartment are Christmas trees. If a central conifer tree is installed in the hall, the rest of the rooms may look lonely. Traffic jams will save the day. They are stuck in a chaotic mess on a cardboard cone-base. Then the Christmas tree is decorated with a star-top, a pair of beads, balls and a miniature garland. Tiny spruce twigs are inserted into the corks on the wire. Then they are placed in a bowl with cotton, rice or other substance that simulates snow. A whole spruce alley in the bowl will decorate the window sill. Green tree on the wall can be made of cork and frame. They are glued to a dense base and placed in a frame of the correct, "fir" shape. The design is decorated with a garland and hung on the wall. If the corks are strung on a fishing line, then a volume wreath can be made from them on a door or wall. It is additionally decorated with bows, rain, tinsel and shiny fittings. Cork deer and snowmen hang on a Christmas tree along with balls, and candlesticks made of this material will create an atmosphere of magic on New Year's Eve.


    

Picture for interior decor

A painting of wine corks is a full-fledged art object, which in some cases is even referred to as high art. “Draw” can be a relief, a different color of the surfaces of the material, a combination of these two options or paints. For example, on a background of oak “circles” they glue a “dark” tree from whole traffic jams, the clusters of which imitate the trunk, and the lonely lines - twigs. In a simpler version, they simply paint with colors on a similar background. In order to give the picture a special color, it is not decorated with clear lines, but individual cork "segments" are painted in the manner of a mosaic.


    

Conclusion

From the corks, you can make floats, taps on shoes, moisture-absorbing bath mats, dies, tags, napkin holders (cards with names), and even pens for dessert spoons or furniture. Decorating a room from this versatile material will require only a fraction of imagination and a minimum of additional details. You can move away from conventional recipes and come up with an original decoration for yourself. In any case, you will need a large amount of material, and excessive alcohol consumption is harmful to health, therefore, in pursuit of creative decor, you should not get too carried away with wine parties.

Watch the video: 25 DIY Ideas to Make With Wine Corks and More by Crafty Panda (March 2024).

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