Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Shrink Plastic Earrings

I found a really fun book from the library last week about shrink plastic jewelry! I had seen many a kids crafts from this plastic, but this book was full of cool, trendy, grown-up jewelry. I was inspired. I followed their instructions (almost) and made this pair of rectangles:

I drew the circle design with the permanent marker, then colored it in with a redish pencil taht came with my daughter's Shrinky Dink kit. Then I made them into these:

I must say, I was not impressed with the lack of straightness to the sides, but like the organic look of them. What do you think?

2 comments:

G'ma Owens said...

They look really good in the picture. The colors do show up.

tcmoniz said...

I think I like them - if the lines had been perfectly staright, they would have seemed more... mass-produced? I like!