Shrink Plastic Earrings

 Hi There! There were some lovely comments last week about the earrings, so I thought you might like to see a step by step for them. 

First I stamped the mandala twice onto sanded frosted shrink plastic and, once dry, I cut them out. I used black brilliance ink for this, or you could use stazon. I punched a small hole in each one.

I used colouring pencils to add a bit of colour to match the beads I had chosen.

Next I shrank the mandalas with a heat gun, turning regularly and then flattening with an acrylic block once fully shrunk. 

using pliers I added silver jump rings through the holes I had made.

Next I threaded three beads onto each of the eye pins and bent the end round with the pliers to make another loop.  

I attached each set of beads to the jump rings 

Finally I added an earring hook to the top of each set of beads. 

I use the largest of the tag dies as a presentation card for the earrings. I made two holes in it with a pokey tool.

I used:

Doodle Art Mandalas set two

Shrink plastic

Brilliance ink (or Stazon)

Sandpaper

Coloured pencil

2 jump rings

2 eye pins, 

6 beads 

2 earring hooks

Heat gun

round nosed pliers

Tweezers

Tag dies

Hole punch

 

Thanks for looking!