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Faux Acrylic KeyChain Charm Tutorial Uses Shrink Plastic and Stickers

Graphic artists turn designers when they create enamel pins and such like with their designs. Some of them like theGorgonist also make acrylic charms which are excellent as cartoon style pendants and keychains. I featured Robin's work before, here.
Designers like Robin use printing services like InkItLabs and StickerMule for creating acrylic charms (and more) from their artwork. But the minimum order is typically 50 pieces. That's a lot if you don't know if a particular design is going to sell.

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Hand Drawn Shrink Plastic Earrings by Big Blue Barn Designs

Remember Aims of Big Blue Barn Designs? She is a great friend of mine who lives in Alberta, Canada, who wowed many of us with her unique mobile jewelry design shop a while ago. You can read my post on how she single-handedly repaired and repainted an old fibreglass trailer of hers to use for her summertime outdoor craft shows. She also sells through her online shop as well as her local hair salon.

Aims was wondering what her next collection would be when her husband suggesting drawing on shrink plastic because she so enjoyed painting her trailer!

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Fun Lemon Slice Earrings Tutorial Uses Shrink Plastic and Resin

Shrink plastic jewelry has come a long way. Crafters like Californian AmyMade on Youtube are showing beautiful examples such as for her fun juicy lemon slice earrings tutorial (click through for her list of supplies).

The three key colorants she uses are Posca markers, alcohol ink markers and pastels. She uses a printed image for the shape.

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Adorable 3D Mushroom Earrings Tutorial | How to Mold 3D Shrink Plastic Charms | Amanita Mushrooms

Using shrink plastic is a great way to make your own charms. They do not have to be 2D either! Watch this adorable 3D mushroom earrings tutorial by crafter, Binc Bonc.

The pattern for this particular charm is available by clicking on the title in the crafter's free pattern section here. You will see other fun shrink plastic ideas there too.

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Artful Shrink Plastic Jewelry Classes, Kits and Tools by ArtMaker58

Tucson based Julie Isaacs Haymaker is a full time artist whose small business is her wonderful Shrinkets line of specialty tools for making shrink plastic charms, beads and trinkets on ArtMaker58 . She also teaches through her online classes and offers kits.

Formally trained in art, Julie explained on her website she gravitated to mixed media work after losing her husband when he was just 44 from a rare cancer. She said :

Making art is my saving grace.

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3 Beautiful Shrink Plastic Flower Earrings Tutorials Uses Different Colorants

Shrink plastic is a wonderful medium for jewelry makers who can draw. Here are 3 beautiful flower earrings which which shrink plastic. The colorants are different for each of them. In general, you have to draw flowers about 3 times (this could vary depending on what you use) the final size you want. Also the colors intensify when the plastic shrinks so start with lighter colors.

First up is the lovely orchid earrings tutorial (shown above) by one of my favorite crafters and amazing polymer clay artist, Victoria of @SunDIYDay. She uses pan pastels as the colorant for this one. You can purchase these as separate pans or sets from any art store or online. The bright yellow color was added using Posca acrylic paint markers such as these which are excellent on all kinds of surfaces.

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How to Make Gel Printed Shrink Plastic Earrings | How to Make Your Own Gelli Plate

Can't possibly get into yet another technique? You might well think again after you watch artist Lucy Brydon transform shrink plastic into art jewelry using the gel printing technique.

Gel printing is known as a monoprinting technique as you can only get one impression as opposed to say, a rubber stamp where you can use it to print many times. Gel printing is a wonderful way of creating prints without having to use an expensive printing press.

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Beautiful Shrink Plastic Gingko Leaf Earrings Tutorial

This beautiful gingko leaf earrings tutorial (no longer available) by Stephanie of wellnesting is a marvelous example of how you can use ordinary shrink plastic and come up with something so striking.

She drew the design about 3 times bigger than what she wanted as the plastic will shrink down. I like how she also used a metallic gold leaf kit to add that dash of glamor.