Wine Cork Angel Ornament

I love, love, love these ornaments! Seriously, how cute is this angel made from a wine cork, wood ball, ribbon, and a shiny pipe cleaner? I know, I know...I say I love things all the time - but look at this! Adorable.

I made the face just like the pinecone angel  - add a little blush for the cheeks on the wood ball, then draw on a face using a thin black sharpie. Hot glue the ball to one end of a wine cork; wrap the neck with a piece of twine or ribbon; hot glue a short length of twine (or whatever you want to hang these with) to the back, then glue a pretty ribbon bow over that for the wings. Lastly, hot glue a small coil of pipe cleaner to the top for the halo.

Silly, but these just make me happy!

12.17.17: cream of mushroom soup
12.17.16: chocolate dipped pretzel rods
12.17.15: homemade dog cookies

Paper Sunflower in a Wine Cork

The cute artificial flower in a wine cork (click here for that post) I made recently to hang in our RV inspired me to make this little decoration for Ronda's display table. Using her Stampin' Up daisy punch I punched flowers out of orange and yellow cardstock, stack three on top of each other to look like a sunflower and glue together. Hole punch a few circles out of brown cardstock and glue to the center of the flower. Tape a short piece of green wire to the back and stick down into the hole made in the top of the cork from the wine opener. Glue to a piece of chip board or cardboard, something strong enough to keep the flowers from falling over.

Wine Cork Flower Holder

This is super fast, super easy, and super cute... crafts don't get much better than that! I made this to hang in our baby RV - I hung a magnetic board with Command velcro picture hanging strips and thought it needed a little flower :)

All I did was put a wooden skewer into the hole in the top of a cork (where the wine opener went in) to make the hole a little wider and deeper. Then jam a fake flower into the hole (you could glue if necessary but mine stayed in just fine) and hot glue a small magnet on the backside. Done. Seriously it didn't take 2 minutes. And look how cute!

on the magnetic board in the RV

Cork Wall

Let's see...after all of the cork projects I've made you'd think I would be running out, right? Uh yeah, no. This cork wall took about 250 of them and I still have like 5 big bags left!! Yikes ;)

This is pretty easy to do, just time and hot glue consuming. Make sure you have LOTS of glue sticks on hand to do this. I measured the space I wanted to fill with corks and cut out 2 pieces of cardboard that measure half the length plus an inch or so - I didn't have one big piece of cardboard long enough, if you do then just do it in one piece if you want. You want to cut the cardboard just a bit bigger so when you're done there is a little excess cardboard around the edges to help wedge it into place.

In order to keep the rows straight I made some lines on the cardboard as a guide. Not all corks are the same length and width so before I glued down a row I made sure they were all the same size - lay them out on the board to make sure they will be even and that you have enough to cover top to bottom.

When glueing the corks to both boards I left a little space on one end so the 2 boards would fit together in the middle and sort of interlock (see the picture for example).

For my board I used 15 corks for the horizontal rows and 7 for the vertical - since where I put the finished cork wall is in a big cubby hole I didn't have to have the top edge completely straight which helped a lot, you can't see the top of the board once it's in place. Once you've covered the board push it into place - if you made it the right size it will hold itself in, I didn't need to anchor it at all. 

Wine Cork Pumpkin

Have you seen the blogs Facebook page? Right now there is a picture across the top that says "Drink your wine. We have crafts to do" -  hahah! You know how many corks I have saved up for projects and here is a very cute fun easy one to do with a few of them.

Try to find a bunch that are the same length, for this size pumpkin I used 25. Paint one end orange (or whatever color you want your pumpkin, you could even just leave it unpainted and have it be natural cork color) and let them dry. Lay out what your pattern is going to be to create the pumpkin shape, I did 4 on the bottom, then row of 5, row of 6, row of 5, and the top row 4. One cork is them stem, I didn't bother painting that one. Hot glue the corks together, I found it easier to glue it while face down, that way the front of the pumpkin stayed completely straight - versus trying to build the pumpkin from the bottom up (make sense? see the pics). After the 5 rows are glued together, stand it up and decorate the top - I cut out a couple leaves from leftover patterned paper from Ronda and Stampin' Up and glued them under the stem cork. Tie a piece of twine, burlap, or ribbon around the stem. So cute! You could also use this as a trivet if you lay the pumpkin down - click here to see a different version of a cork trivet that I made last December.