Flower Power Shrink Plastic Rose Earrings

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Inspired by the shrink plastic rings, here is a tutorial on how to make shrink plastic earrings.

You can view more photos of each step on my blog article.
Step 1: Stamp the image of your choice using Staz-On ink pad. I used a rose stamp with black ink.

Step 2: This is optional, but I find it easier to get the position of the hole (to put a c-ring through later) if I use a eyelet puncher to mark the position first. You just need to twist the puncher a couple of time on the plastic to make a mark. If you don't have a puncher, just use a permanent marker to mark the position.

Step 3: Take the back off your (normal, office) hole punch, and hold it up side down. Using the mark made above as a guide, position the plastic and punch a hole.

Step 4: Cut around the image and the punched hole, leaving a 2mm border all the way round.

Step 5: Using a sharpie in black, fill in any gaps on your image. Flip the plastic over (so that the side with the black rose image is facing down) and colour in the image with red.

Step 6: While holding down the image with tweezers, heat the plastic with a crafting heat gun. Once the image has finished shrinking, lightly press it with something flat, like a stamp pad lid.

The image will shrink to "7 times its original size" (that's what it says on the packet, not what I said), as shown below.

Step 7: Using the hole made earlier, attach it to earring parts.
Done!

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Comments (2)

Akiyo_Kano writes: Hi Vicky, thank you for your advice, I will go and add it to the challenge!
Posted: 3:35 am on September 21st

VictoriaNorth writes: You should enter these into the Flower Power Challenge. Just put Flower Power into your title and click choose "a CraftStylish project or editors challenge" instead of "My own design". You will find The Flower Power Challenge in the drop down box. Nice work!
Posted: 11:49 pm on September 20th

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