Kids Cork Crafts on Pinterest

Also, I wanted to share what one of my daughters has been doing with corks this week!

A is for apples. The three year has been learning her letters and enjoyed painting with corks.

F is for Frog. Pipe cleaner, champagne corks, and googly eyes, and we were hopping around.

Even our new kitten has been playing with corks!

So save the corks and get crafty too! ~Bee

Special note: I had decided to stop writing Corky Wednesday posts due to time, orders and family!   Some sweet customers and followers have been asking about them, so I am bringing it back. Instead of weekly, it will be monthly postings now. Thank you for the support!

Previous Corky Wednesdays:  Wine Cork Portraits, Wine Cork Wreaths, and Wine Cork Jewelry

Hello Monday! Our weekend went by too fast, but I was happy to have a chance to spend it in the garden and getting organized at home.  Last week while out shopping I couldn’t find some of my rewards cards at checkout. Every store you go into now days has some sort of customer rewards program, and I can never find them in my wallet or purse.  With two little munchkins with me at checkout I usually give up.  Not anymore!  I designated a wine cork key chain just for my reward cards!

Now I will be able to close my wallet AND find them every time.  See our tutorial on making a wine cork key chain:  Wine Cork Key Chain Tutorial This one was even easier, just a cork, a screw eye, and a split ring! No tools required.

Jewelry / Small Item Display Idea

Materials: old wood stair spindle, wine corks, wood glue, sand paper, stain, painters tape

Tools: saw, drill

When Artistry Day Spa & Salon asked to have a display of our wine cork key chains, of course I said yes!  Now, I have never made a key chain display before but I wasn’t going to say no. How exciting someone wanted to display our cork key chains in their shop!  I drew up some ideas and showed them to the quiet half of The Wooden Bee, my husband Kyle.  We collect a variety of materials in our recycling efforts and I always like to consult him on new projects. After discussing several materials, we settled on an old stair spindle.

I cut it up before I thought to take a picture, but here it is pieced back together.

We made three cuts for three jewelry displays and an extra wood block (that I’m sure will be reused for another project).

Then we drilled a hole through the stair spindle. We used a wine cork as grommets to secure a wood pole.  Simply drill out the middle of a wine cork and cut it in half to make the grommets. You can use a little wood glue to help secure the grommets (& pole) as well.

Next, I sanded and stained the wood display and wood pole, after covering the wine cork grommets with painters tape. We should have waited to fit the cork grommets until after staining, but we wanted to make sure we could secure the wood display pole before we got any further in the process.

I added little cork “caps” to the wood pole so nothing could slide off. Simply use cut and hollowed ends of wine corks. We have three more displays to make, so I get more detailed with our new idea in future posts!

I loved this project… just another reason to save the wood!!!

Happy Upcycling, Bee

For Corky Wednesdays this week, I wanted to share those entries and my selections.  We had wine cork jewelry, cork hair bows, wine cork boats, and toy cork snakes to name a few of awesome creations!!!

First Place

Second Place

And she didn’t win anything, but I have to give a shout out to Sweet Someday!
Sarah’s idea to adjust the color on the ends of her wine corks was really cool!

Hope you enjoyed your weekend, and remember our giveaway and coupon end Monday at midnight! This week on the blog look for our Corky Wednesdays post, and then a St. Patrick’s Day wine cork tutorial next week!  If you’re in need of a craft fix this week, we posted a how-to on our gardening blog.

Thank you, Bee

If you’re like me you’re just putting away holiday decorations! However, Valentines Day is around the corner and if you want to get crafty you have to plan a head, just a little.

Here’s some corky ideas to get you in the mood…

Allison Shaw’s photostream on Flickr.com has several great photos showing how to make the above cork hearts!

Get crafty and create your own heart cork stamp for your Valentines cards this year!

This post offers a quick cork stamp tutorial using foam hearts and synthetic corks.

Don’t have time to get crafty before February 14th this year?! Well you can purchase the above heart from uncorked on Etsy! I love the theme… Alice in Wonderland!

In November I wrote about Wine Cork portraits and this unfinished Marilyn Monroe portrait…

by artist Conrad Engelhardt

Well check out this amazing video on how he finished her cork portrait!

Marilyn Monroe Portrait Made of Wine Corks

Happy Wine Corking! Look for our January wine cork tutorial later this week!

~Bee

Win a set of 18 Red & Green Christmas Craft corks!

and get crafty this holiday season!

Winner announced on 11/28/12.  All entries will receive a private email message with an exclusive coupon.  Good Luck!

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Paperclipping is neat site that inspires you to tell a story with your home decor. Here is their wine cork frame (and article with before and after photos).

This artist on Etsy made a chevron pattern frame.

This idea uses a traditional frame mounted to a wall (or door in this case) and then they just glued the corks to the wall!!!

Our shop creates most of our wine cork frames locally here in the Daytona Beach area.  Here are two (of many) that we use the reclaimed wood to frame the wine corks into the frame.

Here’s another unique wine cork frame that uses reclaimed wood on Etsy.

Here’s a pretty mosaic and wine cork frame…

You also could upcycled an old frame by simply gluing the wine corks on to the frame for a quick makeover. Like this one on Etsy that cut the wine corks…

Or like this one that used cut champagne corks…

Hmmm… I think this would look great with our colored champagne corks. I might have to make one!

Have a great rest of the week and make sure you take some time to get crafty!  And if you can’t, shop Etsy and support handmade artists this holiday season.

Thank you, Bee

October is here!  Fall gardening is starting up and Halloween crafts are under way in our house.  So, this week I’m dedicating our Corky Wednesdays post to October’s ghoulish holiday!

Make a statement with your corks!

There are a number of sayings and words to choose from. I used scrapbook sticker letters and some synthetic corks I had on hand.  I chose synthetic corks since they offer a super smooth surface and always stand up straight.  Corks with or without a design work well for this easy project.

Our HALLOWEEN corks ended up on our foo dog (a Chinese guardian statue) this season.

Colored Corks

Colored corks would make a great Halloween wreath or would look good in a spooky vase with some spider webs.  Our orange and black wine cork supplies have been popular on Etsy this month. They have been featured in dozens of treasuries and we have just one all black set left.

And how fancy are these handmade artists on Etsy…

Tiny pumpkins made from a variety of recycled wine corks, acrylic paint, and wire.

Adorable candle holder made from a thrifted glass bowl and sliced recycled wine corks!

Hope you find time to enjoy a little wine cork crafting this season!

~ Bee

Our next giveaway starts this Thursday, September 13th! Look for details soon!