Can you hear buzzing?

 

Hi there! I made these cute earrings at the weekend using Bee Crafty stamps and shrink plastic. Here's how I made them

I began by stamping the largest bee twice onto clear sanded shrink plastic. 

Next I used a hole punch to add holes between the antennae.  

I cut around the bees leaving a small border, and the holes at the top to attach them to the earrings. 

Once the ink was definitely dry I coloured them using coloured pencils.

 

Using tweezers and a Heat tool I shrunk the bees. You can watch the video of them shrinking here

I added jump rings through the holes and threaded 3 beads onto each of the eye pins.

using round nosed pliers and wire cutters I created a loop at the top of the eye pin and fastened the ear hooks and bees to either end.

Here are the earrings again

I used: 

Bee Mine stamp set

Brilliance ink

Clear shrink plastic, sanded on one side so it can be inked and coloured

Coloured pencils

Heat tool

2 eye pins

2 ear hooks

2 jump rings

6 beads

round nosed pliers and wire cutters

Thanks for looking! 

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! 

Facebook live Earrings for Crafty Individuals

 

Hi There! 

Last week I was asked by Jean of Crafty Individuals to step in and do her facebook live on Wednesday. It was a pleasure to help out and I made some shrink plastic earrings. You can watch the video on the Crafty Individuals Shop facebook page here:

Crafty Individuals Facebook live from Wednesday 12th January 2022

The Stamp I used can be found here 

I did a test to see if the size would be suitable first

I have made a few pairs of Earrings using Crafty Individuals stamps over the past couple of years....

I have discovered that there are some lovely starter kits on Amazon if you haven't done anything like this before, that aren't too expensive. 

All of Jean's lives can be found here on the facebook page - If you are stuck for inspiration or mojo, it is a great place to start x 

Thanks for looking!