Hi new member here

BunnyBooBows · **Joined:** Nov 06, 2011 **Posts:** 5

Hey everyone! My name is Christine & I recently started making bows, tutus, top hats,etc! I named it after my daughter Bunny Boo. I am here to try and get some help on bottle caps! I basically have it down, but I dont know how to make the ones with circles or other cool shapes

Any advice or help would be great!!!

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Hi Welcome to our friendly forum. Here is a link here you can start with. Hope it helps.
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1703

Ana · **Joined:** Jul 08, 2011 **Posts:** 285

Welcome to GimpChat BunnyBooBows

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Draconian · **Posted:** Sun Nov 06, 2011 8:03 am **(#4)**

Welcome Bun'. Lots-n-lots of folks here to help if you need it. Can't wait to see some of your work.

2-ton · **Posted:** Sun Nov 06, 2011 8:55 am **(#5)**

So what are these 'bottle caps' and what are they used for?

MrBiggz · **Posted:** Sun Nov 06, 2011 10:43 am **(#6)**

2-ton wrote:

So what are these 'bottle caps' and what are they used for?

Welcome Miss Bunny! :welcome

2-ton I asked myself the same question and Molly tagged the same thread I was going to last night but decided not to. Note: I be trolling the forum late late late at night!

Cause somebody wanted to actually print images to adhere to physical bottle caps and then somebody came up with a fairly realistic looking cap. To bad it couldn't be angled .. or maybe it can!

Regards less .. welcome Bunny you ask and you'll get a whole bunch of answers! :grooving

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 14709 **Location:** USA

Welcome to Gimp Chat Christine.

BunnyBooBows · **Joined:** Nov 06, 2011 **Posts:** 5

Thank you everyone for the warm welcome <3 I can already feel the love!!

Molly thanks for the link!! I will be reading up on this today. I have a local craft show next Sunday and need to make a local HS football team logos and I dont just want the logo on a white back ground, ya know? Its so plain!

PS you can see our work here Draconian :
http://www.facebook.com/BunnyBooBows2011

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 14709 **Location:** USA

Inkscape has a real cool tutorial on creating a bottle cap here too.

Inkscape is a very nice (like Adobe Illustrator), free vector art program that goes perfectly with Gimp.

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12531

Sorry for the belated welcome. Was going to do so earlier and got on to other distractions. Many ways to skin a cat with GIMP. If you have an example of a bottle cap that you are trying to emulate, please pass on a link; many here will be quite willing to help you on your quest Christine. Just wish you didn't feel the need to purchase a template (from your other post), but if it helps to automate your flow, then the better.

BunnyBooBows · **Joined:** Nov 06, 2011 **Posts:** 5

I was new to gimp & had nooo clue how to even attempt anything like this. So I was suckered, LOL.
Only issue is, once its made, thats it, no changing it. Ive seen where people change the caps within minutes. What are they doing??

I'll find a link.
Thank you Lyle

BunnyBooBows · **Joined:** Nov 06, 2011 **Posts:** 5

Im looking how to make something like this...
I need gators & fsu.
How do I make that border & write on a bottle cap??

http://www.etsy.com/listing/81327648/au ... t=handmade

2-ton · **Posted:** Thu Nov 10, 2011 10:50 am **(#13)**

I don't know much about bottlecaps and how they should be done, but I think it would really help if you went through AlexStandiford's beginner tutorials, and it would really help us to be able to describe how to do stuff.
http://gimpedblog.blogspot.com/
Of course, it would be great to see lesson 1 and 2, but lesson 3 is how to utilize layers, and I think that will help you a lot with making these designs.

mikethedj4 · **Posted:** Sat Nov 12, 2011 10:20 pm **(#14)**

Welcome to GimpChat!