Salt Lick Shop: Christmas Cookies

Set of my finished Bottle Cap Pie Magnets in a cookie tin

I wish I could take credit for this cute idea but I can't. I had never seen any or heard of them before winning an auction box lot full of miniatures last week. And tucked away in the corner was this single, cute miniature little pie that inspired this DIY bottle cap pie post:

Here was the bottom after I tore off a $3 price tag of old scotch tape.

It wasn't a magnet, but I immediately thought it'd be cute as one. So I had to get to making up a batch and see how they will sell in my new booth. Oh, here's a few pics of how it's coming along so far.

And now on to making these adorable bottle cap pie magnets.

YOU WILL NEED:
-Salt Dough (Recipe Link) or Polymer Clay (my first batch I'm trying the clay since I have a lot on hand)
-E-6000 Glue
-Round Magnets
-Craft Paint & Spray Paint (optional) but faster for me for larger batches
-Metal Bottle Caps

First off, gather up some metal pop lids. Oddly, I'd saved these for a while, but I just never new what I'd need them for.

Then take them and lay them out on something, I used a styrofoam plate, and spray paint them the base color you want.

I chose white just because it was what I had on hand.

I'd really have preferred red. But anyways. One coat was good enough, so I continued.

My next step is totally optional but I love the old enamel speck look it gives so I've gotta show it.

Take some other contrasting color, I choose red for one batch

and blue for another,

and flick specks on using an old toothbrush.

Just dip the toothbrush in some paint, and run your finger up and down the bristles to let the specks fly. You can add a dab of water if you must, but not too much or it'll look too runny.

And after they dried good, I got out my clay.

Next time I'll use salt dough, but for right now I have plenty of the clay ready.

I went ahead right now and squirted a bit of E-6000 glue into the empty lids, preparing them for the clay. Here's the type I used that I purchased from ebay:

Just pinch you off a bit and shove it in a dry lid to make the pie.

Here is a bunch of the tops so you can see the various designs I did.

Oh, I also went in while the clay was still wet and cut a slit out to make it look like a piece was gone.

Here's another pic to show how I used the tip of an ink pen lid to push in to make fake cherries or what have you:

And with the same pen, I rolled it on top of the clay to give it a woven texture.

Just look around and find items that you can use. If you notice the edges of these, I took one of the metal bottle caps and rolled it around the edges to give it the crimped look. I really liked that.

Now let them sit to dry. Depending on what type of "pie filling" you used, it depends on the time. But for my clay I let them sit for about 12 hours. And then I did a bit of painting.

As you see, I just used some craft paint and try to dribble on some sort of pie toppings. And I loved the one that I painted white, like a cake, with red strawberry dots on it. I think that one is my favorite.

A few of the others I just played around with. And the one with the chocolaty looking runny topping I was trying to go for a drippy look for the edges, but it didn't turn out so good.

And if you noticed, I've got them stashed in an old cookie tin that someone had given me as a gift last year. I thought it'd be a cute way to transport them to my booth and to display them in.

Also, if you wanted to sell these in a lot of say a dozen or so, it'd be a cute packaging idea to leave them in the tin with the lid! I may do that also.

But here's some pics of how I've gotten some displayed in my kitchen now: