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Dinosaur Bone Necklace

Show your bones, your dinosaur bones!

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Cat Morley


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My friend Emma really wanted a Tatty Devine Dinosaur Necklace so I decided to have a shot at making a similiar one for her birthday, without copying their original design.

The great thing about this is that you can change the type of dinosaur by making a few extra bones and a new head and switching them around a bit. If you wanted to make this really cool, try using glow in the dark shrink plastic.

See more wonderful jewellery on their website at www.tattydevine.com.


Instructions 
  1. 1
    Step 1

    Find a picture of a dinosaur you like and trace around the outline on to paper. Remember, it needs to be 7x the size you want your final necklace to be.


  2. 2
    Step 2

    Use an cutting knife to cut out the inner details. Cut the template up in to sections, to make it look like connecting bones.


  3. 3
    Step 3

    Place blue tack on one side of the template and stick down on to shrink plastic.


  4. 4
    Step 4

    Cut out the shrink plastic dinosaur.


  5. 5
    Step 5

    Decide where you need to connect the bones together and use a hole punch to make small round holes.


  6. 6
    Step 6

    Shrink down the dino in an oven, making sure to press the pieces flat when they first come out hot.


  7. 7
    Step 7

    Use white wire to connect the bones together. I made little loops with jewellery pliers, opened them and then slipped it on to both bones before closing them off.


  8. 8
    Step 8

    Slip a jump ring through the head of the dinosaur and the tail and cut a length of white embroidery thread. Loop it through the jump ring and knot in place.


  9. 9
    Step 9

    Thread the string with white seed beads, long enough to wear around your neck nicely.


  10. 10
    Step 10

    Attach half a toggle clasp to either side.


  11. 11
    Step 11

    All done, Raaarrrrr!


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Panda-Goes-Rawr

Panda-Goes-Rawr Tue, 05 Apr 2011 00:02:36 +0000

So kool great use of shrink plastic :3

 
Chelli B.

Chelli B. Mon, 21 Feb 2011 08:49:40 +0000

didnt think i would like a dinosuar bone necklace but when i saw it i thought it was awesome.

 
bittersweet.

bittersweet. Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:57:20 +0000

Yes, please! A template would be fantastic! :) Love this project.

 
Lei

Lei Tue, 06 Jul 2010 19:20:02 +0000

can you post the template? thank you!

 
Cat Morley

Cat Morley Sat, 19 Jun 2010 18:46:13 +0000

Aww thanks everyone. I can scan in the bone templates and add them as an attachment if anyone wants to make them?

frabjous - I used scissors to cut around the outside and a stanley knife to get the inner details.

 
Jet H.

Jet H. Sat, 19 Jun 2010 16:19:49 +0000

wooow i'm impressed what an awesome great beautiful idea of yours. Love it.!!!!! thank you for the great tute and sharing;-D

 
Amber A.

Amber A. Sat, 19 Jun 2010 06:21:26 +0000

yeah I saw that necklace too, I even saved the picture cause I loved it soo and wanted to make it since it was sooo expensive,but I never got around to trying. so yes this is a very cool tutorial

 
Kathx

Kathx Wed, 16 Jun 2010 05:16:24 +0000

That's awesome! I saw a similar necklace on a website for sale that was like 60 dollars. Really cool!

 

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