Find of the Week #5

A huge plastic bag with a ball of zipper tape was 

my find of the week! It is a great burnt orange 

color. See my "This into That" post for what I did with the ball

of zipper! A find at SCRAP.

"This into That"

This is a new feature to this blog called "This into That".

It also happens to be made with my find of the week. The "this"

is a big ball of zipper and the "that" is the zipper brooch 

I cut 13 pieces of zipper and used a high temperature glue 

gun and made the "petals". I trimmed the zipper tape and 

made a swirl for the center of the brooch.

Big ball of zipper tape =  zipper brooch

This into that

This brooch is quite large measuring in at 5 inches in diameter. I love it this big even if it is a 

bit floppy. The zipper was not stiff but nice and soft. I plan to make a lot more brooches! 

Valentine Zipper Pins

I always have a lot of zippers in my studio for various projects. I went through them and pulled out the red, pink and white ones for a valentine craft. I used a glue gun and shaped them into hearts. All the lengths of the zippers were different so I was able to come up with a lot of different designs. It was a lot of fun. You only need a glue gun, different lengths of red, pink and white zippers and some pin backs. SCRAP, my favorite art supply store is where I got a lot of my zippers. I also keep my eye out for zippers on sale at the thrift stores where you can get some vintage zippers with brass teeth. And of course the fabric stores also have them in a variety of colors. Yard sales are also a place to look for zippers as well.

Here is just part of my stash of zippers ready to be repurposed into Heart pins.

The simple heart pin. Turn, fold and tuck, glue...add pin back and wear it!

Here are more  of the Valentine Heart pins from various size and colors of zippers.