I'm Tiffany Windsor and I'm Heidi Borchers today we're on a crusade to save the soda cans for crafting of course and i'm using the aleene's tacky dot singles I'm gonna show you how to make a flower from a soda can i'm using the aleene's tacky dot singles today they're easy to use the quick that mixes projects so fast to put together we're using soda cans today all kinds of soda cans different sort of cans they all have wonderful colors and just simply use a craft knife to cut them apart you just push it in cut it all the way around turn the other side it is a little bit stronger here so come in about a quarter of an inch and cut it off but right at the end when you're done it actually is like this and then you cut it open and you have your material to work with now I usually work from the color side because I want to know what color I'm going to use like I don't always use all the color of it I love right here on this one this pink color so I put my template just a circle template right over the color area use the stylus and just simply mark where you want your circle then just use old scissors to cut out don't use your very best ones and I found that as long as you do everything with a rounded edge on a soda can it does not it's not sharp everybody always asked me well isn't that sharp to wear or use as long as all the edges no matter what you do are rounded it is not sharp now I cut my patterns or my little templates out of cereal box and I just this has an eight-pointed flower I put it down onto my piece and I simply mark it with my stylus I have 8 points 8 petals sometimes I need to know where the center is so I put a little dot and then just again to do the rounded edges I'm going to do rounded quite a petals and then turn it over and do the other side now that I've cut my flower shape we want to emboss it take your stylus and go on the back on each petal and also notice I'm working on a piece of craft foam it really embosses really well on a piece of craft foam turn it over and just put a circle right there and one of your petals is ready now we have several different sizes of petals that I've cut I've done them all the same way the last little Center petal is actually a circle that I've cut in or fringed around the edge and that's going to be the very center on the back of each piece I have put a aleene's tacky dot I've removed the top layer and so now the tacky dot is there and I've removed the back layer I just start to build them and you can see my flower starting to take shape and then the very center we're going to put one more I'm going to put a little bead in there and wrap that little Center I'm just taking my fingers but just like fingertips and wrapping it around the bead super simple you can shape these up a little bit up and let's take a look at my box with hid tacky dot on the back of the flower I put it on to the box to get the background on the flower plate a box I cut some little pieces of those square pieces use my aleene's tacky dots and just do a mosaic on the side super simple easy to put together and it's eco-friendly my sister eco Heidi has been making flowers for jewelry out of soda cans for years and they're so easy the aleene's tacky dot singles are available at michaels is terrifically tacky and creatively cool you