 Hello and welcome back to Bohemian Crafting Channel, it's Eva here and today I'm coming to share with you my passion for coffee I do love coffee very much, and I do love coffee Where I am making my coffee using these coffee pots. I also love planet Earth and To make sure I will don't make too many trash I Was thinking very hard how I can Reuse or recycle those little coffee pots, and I think I came up with very cute idea And I hope you will join me with this upcycling craft. I decided to make Very little and very cute Christmas bells first I had to take off the plastic from that Larger open area and then I had to make kind of like Hole in the top of that coffee pot or maybe in the bottom of that coffee pot depends on how you will look on that For that I've been using players which I am using for making jewelry It helped me quite a lot to create kind of like hole You have to be careful because these coffee pots can be very fragile. I Destroyed few of them until I was successful and I found that right amount of Smush to make a hole through to that through to that opening here. You can see how it looks like and as a heart of my bell I decided to use paper clip and Also small jingle bell That paper clip will be also as a hunger So I will be able to you to hunk my bells or a Christmas bells on Christmas tree. I unfolded that paper clip and Then I decided to cover one half of that paper clip with Utah string I think the Utah string can match with many styles of Christmas decorations so I decided to go with this and To glue that string around my paper clip. I used hot glue gun. I glued that string on on the Middle part of my paper clip and then I wrapped it or wrap it around that open edge of my paper clip and On the end of that Paper clip I also glued that string to make sure it will don't slide down and it will hold properly And then I wrapped that string back again to that middle of my paper clip to make sure it will hold nicely it will be covered through the way and That was the start of making the heart of my bell then on that open metal I will be hanging my jingle bell and all this heart of my bell. I will slide through to that coffee pot As you can see in the video To make sure this heart of my bell will be holding nicely I slide it through to that open hole a little bit and then I glue that that open part with hot glue to make sure it will be holding nicely and I will be able to use this coffee pot as my decoration on a Christmas tree I had to wait a little bit till hot glue will dry once it was dry and holding well I folded or bundled that paper clip again to make a hook and That moment I was able to start to decorate my coffee pot Before I will glue any kind of decoration I decided to kind of like brush the bottom of that bell to make sure there will be no any Sharp edges for that. I've been using my nail file For gluing decorative parts decorative elements. I'm gonna be using clear Glossy gel and for making those decorative parts. I'm using air dry clay I bought on Aliexpress beautiful silicone molds and one of these molds has very beautiful border as you can see now and that border I decided to use on the edge of my bell because I think it will make it very beautiful. I will try find the link for this silicone. I think I bought it on Aliexpress I will have a look and if I will find the link I will definitely put the link for this silicone mold down below I do believe I do have a link for that second one which has holly leaves and ivory leaves which I used for decorating the top of my bell Here you can see that I'm using that gel that glossy gel for gluing my decorative border I really like this border because it makes that bell very beautiful and cute and it's It's just a very Christmassy feeling already now So once I had glued this border on the bottom of my bell I took a brush and I kind of like spread that gel I used for gluing My border so I spread that gel on the top of my bell. It will also help When I will start to paint it that gel will also help to hold my paint properly then I created other decorations using that air dry clay I created these holly leaves and I also used few of these ivory leaves. You will see that in the video I'm gluing all these little parts before they will dry That way I am able to Kind of create the right shape and to lay them down Down around my bell. So once the clay will dry All these parts will hold nicely will have The shape I need So they will cover the bell really beautifully So all these decorations I'm gluing Straight away straight away on that on that coffee pot to make sure they will hold beautifully and they will sit nicely I'm not waiting to to let them dry on the earth before I will glue them down. I'm gluing them straight away As you can see and to make sure my holly leaves will have also those holly berries I will be creating them Just by hand just by rolling those little parts I wanted to have there so many leaves so as you can see I've been using different sizes and glued them all around of that bell And it's already have a really cute look and I'm so happy I decided to do so because I believe Till next Christmas I will have bells for all house So here you can see how I'm making those holly berries And again, I am gluing them using that gel And all this creation it was such a pleasure to create this here. You can see how the bell looks After I glued all these parts on it I had to let it dry and after everything was dry Pardon me I decided to use a homemade gesso for first First coat So after this homemade gesso will dry My acrylic paint will hold much much better There is so many videos on youtube how you can make your home homemade gesso So go to have a look if you will don't find any kind of link. Just let me know I can make I can make short tutorial how you can make homemade gesso Once all this was dry I Took few paints few acrylic paints and started or Yeah started to Paint my little bell I'm using just very cheap acrylic paints from Poundland, which I had in my stuff I couldn't find anything else. So that's why all this but everything holds really nicely So you don't have to have expensive paintings to create your own decoration I did use green Red a little bit of gold and then I put in one Once small my palette pot I put a little bit of yellow because I wanted to have there Two two tones of green. So one will be darker and one I will create mixing By mixing darker green with that yellow. I will create kind of like lighter green color and for For basic paint I decided to use white color as you saw me I sprayed there a little bit of water Just because my acrylic paint was very thick and I didn't want to have that I spread there a little bit of water to make it thinner and then I made two coats using this white paint On all my bell And then I've been waiting to to make sure all this white Painting will be dry And I made two coats of this white painting Once I had all my white painting that base painting done I started to use all those other colors first I took green and I painted all those leaves and Holy leaves and those ivory leaves with that dark green first And I have to say this is this was very Very long process as the bell is very small And I didn't paint for a long time. So to make sure I will don't have smushes everywhere I had to be very careful And here you can see that I'm mixing that dark green with that yellow to create a light green And with that light green I added color To few of my leaves to make there a difference and I have to say that it looks really amazing Once you put there a few tones of of the colors You are creating that perfect dimension to your project. So don't be afraid to use few tones After I had all green done. I started to paint my very Not very very leaves or holly holly berries I guess I hope I'm saying that right that it's holly berries With the red color and with the same red color Pardon me With the same red color, uh, I also painted the stripes of this coffee pot. That was I think the The hardest painting I ever did because those strips In those coffee pots are very small And my hand was very shaking So you will don't see too much in that video Because I had to put many times my head over my painting to make sure I am on the right spot So you will see here just a few of these stripes, but I I managed after I think two two hours To paint all these stripes It was really hard and as a as a last touch very small touch I decided to use a little bit of that gold paint And add here and there just a slight just really very small amount Of that gold paint it will be covered with Another white paint again, but I wanted to have there kind of like gold patina So very softly I'm touching just the edges of few leaves and the edges of that Bottom border I used for the edge of my bell Just really very soft touch not too much of that gold And once all this was dry, I wanted to add there kind of like snowy effect So for that I'm taking my acrylic paint White acrylic paint and with brush with hard Hard hair I'm using that dry brush technique and I'm adding a little bit of that white painting Over all that Christmas bell and as you can see it looks already really beautiful and really cute I'm so happy I decided to use my coffee pots for this creation Because I know I will make a lot of them through the year So next year all our house will will be full of bells So after I made this kind of like snowy effect on my bell I took a bindax from studio PBO studio The bindax works also Like glue so I decided to use this bindax for my homemade homemade mix of Sand and glitter And this I will use for that glittery effect. So it will looks like it's frosty Here you can see that I am editing that bindax on the bottom edge and also all over of my molds It's All this it's dry already all painting I used all these molds are are totally dry I didn't use that bindax straight away. I always wait Till every single layer will be totally dry that way I'm sure that this decoration will hold nicely and here you can see that I am adding That mix of glitter and sand on my bell to make sure that it will looks like Snowy and frosty My camera will don't take it too much, but I hope you will be able to see that That glitter in that sand that sand is by the way very fine sand So that mix makes really beautiful glittery effect And this is how altered coffee pot looks like on Christmas tree. You can paint it or You can make make it white and just with those leaves on the top So there is many options you can get And this is all my sharing for today and for this year 2022. Thank you all for all your support Thank you so much for those who are supporting my channel and who are sharing my videos I do appreciate that very very much. I hope you found some inspiration in this video It is important to help or earth to breathe easily and I do believe with small steps like this when we will Kind of help to transform That plastic trash to something what we can use every year Through the Christmas time what we can save in all boxes and do not True it to the earth Hopefully these small steps Will keep us longer on the earth and I hope you will join me on this ride. Thank you so much for All your support. Thank you so much for spending your time with me today and for upcoming year. I wish you all very best May your year is filled with love strong health amazing friends and wonderful families And year full of Happiness. Thank you so much. Have a beautiful day. Have a beautiful night. And I will see you in 2023 Bye