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Blinging Name Choker

Make your own cheap bling and everyone will know your name!
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I calculated the cost of my materials and this necklace cost around 50p / $1 to make, so this is very very very cheap bling.

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You can do this by hand, or go for the easy option, and use an image editing or word processing program to write out your name. I didn't have any fonts that looked exactly the way I wanted them to, so I joined up the words by moving the letters closer together.
Print this out. Remember that you want to print / draw it a lot bigger than the final charm, because you will be shrinking it down soon.
Place small dots of sticky tack around the letters.
Place a sheet of clear shrink plastic on top, pressing it down at the sticky tack on to the letters, so that it's secured tightly.
Carefully cut around the letters, through the paper and shrink plastic with a pair of scissors. Use a Stanley knife to cut out tricky detailed areas and in between the letters.
Punch two holes out of the top corners at either side of the name.
Remove the paper backing and sticky tack from the name.
Shrink down in an oven.
Cover the backs of the crystals in clear glue, I used nail varnish, and carefully place around the letters using tweezers.
Cover the whole necklace so that it sparkles.
Slip jump rings through the two holes you made earlier and attach your name pendant to a chain. Voila, you're ready to sparkle!

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PorcelinaZero

Jan 20, 2008 9:51pm

I <3 the Necklace!!!!
What font did you use???

'Gemyz

Jan 20, 2008 10:32pm

OMG i love it!! :D

LaLaHappy

Jan 20, 2008 11:32pm

I love this! You never fail to amaze me. :)

Astronaut Carol.

Jan 20, 2008 11:59pm

Omg, this is sooo good! :)

Melanie (The Coma Girl Designs)

Jan 21, 2008 12:01am

luv, Luv, LUV it! xoxo

Mia

Jan 21, 2008 12:03am

Awesome! Great idea!!

Cat Morley

Jan 21, 2008 12:08am

The font was Bookman Old Style Italic, but I joined up the letters.

kate e.

Jan 21, 2008 12:56am

i was just looking at the nameplate necklaces and how much they were.. i love this idea so much more!!!

That is so awesome Cat and so easy to make- when I first saw the picture i thought "There's no way i can make that" but really it's so simple!!!! I just need to get some shrink plastic- haven't seen anywhere that sells it.
You rock girl!

Shivi

Jan 21, 2008 1:03am

I forgot to mention- my real name is Siobhan(Irish) and there is no way you can find a necklace like that in the shops with my name so now I can finally have one plus it has bling!!

Darling Niki

Jan 21, 2008 2:32am

Oh super cute!!

aya R.

Jan 21, 2008 4:50am

Really cool idea - and I like the result to!

Caro

Jan 21, 2008 6:36am

very cool idea, I am totally doing it.

opposites-girl

Jan 21, 2008 12:56pm

This is sooo cool Cat!

dee maria s.

Jan 21, 2008 11:50pm

that's kind of amazing. shops should have them instead of humiliating nametags.

Erika A.

Jan 22, 2008 1:17am

Wow, this is awesome.
If only I had shrink plastic.
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PJ F.

Jan 22, 2008 1:00pm

WOW! That is SO cool!!! Everyone needs a shiney bling Bling!!
Did the tacky stuff you used to keep the shrink plastic on- was it hard to get off of the shink plastic?
I'm going shopping today for bling stones!!

Great project!

Great idea, Cat!

Posted By:
Cat Morley »
20 Jan 21:37

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