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DIY Tutorial - Bottle Cap Pins

I was asked to show how i make pins so this is what i do to make a pin from shit around my house. If youre a can tab collector like me, you’ll like this one too. (Ps, in the photo above, mine are a lil scuffed because i wear these on my every day jacket so that can happen too so beware)

Supplies

- Metal bottle cap, you can get those from beer bottles or sodas, usually theyre found on a lot of glass bottled drinks, ive also found them discarded on the road and sidewalks

- Can tab, any works for this really, as long as its not like huge or somethin

- Safety pin, you can use whatever size for this part really, i would think the only issue is if the safety pin is too small. Mine are about an inch

- Pliers, it doesnt have to be needle noses or anythin, just pliers

- Superglue or hot glue, this is entirely optional for makin this more stable

- Paint/paint marker, mod podge/varnish, nail polish and clear nail polish, etc, this is technically optional but thats the stuff you would use to customize said pin

The steps

1.) Use your pliers to flatten down two of the back edges of the bottle cap, if you wanna keep the design upright, do this on either side of the design on your cap.

2.) Bend your can tab slightly in half, very slightly, not too tall.

3.) slide your can tab into the back of the bottle cap vertically, the bent edges should be on the left and right of your tab.

4.) Slide your safety pin with the pin/pointy side facing up into the can tab with either end of the safety pin nesting in the flattened edges from before, you can do this through that middle rung on the tab if you want, i never do.

5.) bend all the edges of your cap down and around the tab in the middle, you can sorta control the shape here if you choose to. Also beware that this might scuff up the front, it typically does for me

6.) Now you have a pin, at this point you can glue it for extra hold on the can tab or the back of the safety pin if you want or you can design the front of the pin with paint or markers, id imagine you could even print a design to glue onto the front if you want a pin with a certain photo but ive never tried it personally.

After that youre done and have the ability to make pins with anything you want on them now !

LOTS OF PUNK STAMPS! (part 1)

Here we are with another part of music genre stamps. Just like the goth stamps i made, its a "my favorite genre is in this stamp" + aesthetic stamp combo.

Punk genres listed for this batch, because theres so many punk genres

Anarcho-Punk (i.e. Crass, Rudimentary Peni, The Mob, Lost Cherrees)

Celtic Punk - punk + celtic music (i.e. Dropkick Murphys, Flogging Molly)

Chain Punk - from the meme involving "chain vs egg punk". Has more hardcore punk roots, aggressive

Egg punk - from the meme involving "chain vs egg punk". Quite similar to synth punk due to usage of synths.

Crust punk (i.e. Nausea, Axegrinder, Doom, Deviated Instinct. Aus Rotten)

D-Beat - artwork inspired by those "d beat album covers that has band members censored eyes". Bands like Discharge (where the genre name is from), Anti Cimex, Driller Killer

Emo/Emotional Hardcore (more focused on bands like Rites of Spring, American Football, Jimmy Eat World, and all of those stuff. I'll try to make a different emo stamp for the likes of MCR, Fall Out Boy, and Paramore)

Folk Punk (i.e. Pat the Bunny, Days n Daze, Mischief Brew)

Grindcore - even it's more related to metal. I decided to include here since it was rooted from hardcore punk. Example bands: Napalm Death, Extreme Noise Terror

Digital Hardcore - electronic music + hardcore punk. Some mostly use guitars (i.e. Rabbit Junk) and some will have mostly electronic sounds than guitar (i.e. Machine Girl). Decided to have more cyberpunk aesthetic for this, 'cause it sounds like stuff you play in middle of a fight in a cyberpunk world

Hardcore Punk - apparently "hardcore" can mean different music genres (Beatdown hardcore is one of it but theres also hardcore techno), but lets focus on the punk. Bands like Bad Brains, Black Flag, Dead Kennedys, and Minor Threat.

Horror Punk - spooky punk music. (i.e. Blitzkid, Misfits, Calabrese)

Oi! (i.e. Oi Polloi, Angelic Upstarts, Camera Silens)

Punk Rock - supposedly for the classic punk rock sound but stamp can be used for punk rock in general. Example bands: The Clash, Ramones, Sex Pistols

Ska punk (i.e. Operation Ivy, Less than Jake, Against all Authority)

Skate Punk - something you have heard on Tony Hawk pro skater games. Anyway... bands like NOFX, Suicidal Tendencies (also metal), Pennywise

Street Punk (i.e. GBH, Varukers, UK Subs)

Synth Punk (i.e the Screamers, Suicide, Devo)

feel free to use it to your personal page, carrd, neocities, strawpage, toyhouse, sheezy, deviantart, etc. No need to credit when using the stamps (like putting html embeds and stuff) but linking any of my pages is appreciated when reposted, reblog, or reupload on different places.

Step into the unknown 🍂

“The past doesn’t need you anymore. Your future does.”

— Unknown

Perhaps one of the biggest fish tragedies of all time is that tunas, the large, fast, powerful apex predators of the open ocean that have evolved to be perfectly hydrodynamic thanks to millions of years of evolution, with fins that can be retracted into grooves in the body for maximum smoothness, which can heat up their swimming muscles and brains and eyes to become even more efficient hunters, who are in fact several species of fish, the largest of which (Atlantic bluefin) can reach four meters in length and rivals the marlins in being the largest perciform fish.....

....are just kinda known as a food item by most people. Like cod, this animal should be a symbol of raw power and speed, not fish dinner time

Did you know, that like snakes and lizards, most sharks are ectothermic? This means that, normally, they’re not capable of regulating their own body temperature. However, sharks that live in frigid Arctic waters have adapted an ability called counter-current heat exchange. This method of keeping warm, allows these sharks to survive in even the coldest of the world’s oceans.