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The "world's first animated GIF" lenticular necklace with audio for Lauren Out Loud!
For this week's Crafter To The Stars I'm making the "world's first animated GIF necklace" of Nyan Cat (with audio) for professional Interneter, TV presenter, blogger and geeky blondebot Lauren O’Nizzle. I'm also giving you the chance to win your very own Nyan Cat necklace on my blog, so make sure to enter!
Lauren is amazing at finding the funniest GIFs and posting them by the bucketload on her hilarious blog, so the idea of making her an animated gif necklace came pretty quickly, though figuring out how to do it was a little more complicated. I used a lenticular sheet for the body Nyan Cat, so he runs when you move him from side to side and if you push a little button, the theme tune plays from a sound recorder glued to the back.
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You Will Need
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Step 1For this project, you'll need a lenticular sheet. I got one free with a photo and just peeled the original picture from the back and used WD40 to remove any left over stickiness.
The trickiest part is getting your image just right. Measure the spacing on the lenticular sheet and then use Lenticular Software ( I used Lentikit at http://lentikit.sourceforge.net) to create an image to match. Play around with the number of frames and the size of your image until you find something that works perfectly!
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Step 2Cover the image with double sided sticky back plastic.
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Step 3Carefully line the lenticular sheet up with the image and stick on top.
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Step 4Neatly cut around the outline with a pair of scissors, being carefully not to cut any of the moving pixels off.
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Step 5Use a cutting knife to cut out the trickier bits.
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Step 6Keep going until you're left with just the frames of Nyan Cat and nothing else.
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Step 7Punch a hole through the top of Nyan Cat with a small hole punch.
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Step 8Punch an eyelet through the hole, to give it a neat finish.
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Step 9To make the rainbow, we're going to use lots of plastic strings. These used to be know as scoubidous and really popular a few years ago.
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Step 10Clip the strings together in order of the rainbow. I used two strings to get the right height on my rainbow.
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Step 11Place some waxed paper over top and iron.
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Step 12The strings will fuse together nicely.
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Step 13Cut a piece of clear plastic to match the size of your rainbow.
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Step 14Glue the rainbow on to the plastic.
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Step 15Now for the fun part. Record the Nyan Cat theme tune on to a greeting card sound recorder. I found mine on eBay and it was really cheap.
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Step 16Glue the rainbow and sound recorder to the back of Nyan Cat with a hot glue gun.
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Step 17Glue the speaker and the play button on top. You can just cut off the extra cables.
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Step 18Attach a jump ring and clip on to a necklace chain and you're all done!
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Step 19
Here's a video of the necklace in action.
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Step 20
And here's what Lauren thought of it!
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