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just fake recycled plastic bottles transformed in mecury expensive one.LOL
i needed awesome cheap big beads for my wind chimney project.
Saw some old used plastic botles and found this tin foil tape and thought this must be it.
i was suprised of the result that you become mecury mirrowed beads of the plastic.
So i thought more of you will like to know how you can make them.
Hope you like this little tute and make some your self.
just have fun and be creative and crafty.

Note:
Do this only outside.
Melting plastic is not healty there will become dioxine gazz free.
so perhaps you can use a face mask as well.
i kept my breath during the heating up.LOL
And be careful those heathing guns can be really hot.
so use pliers to hold the stick on the platic.

Thank you for stopping by.;-D

Posted by Jet H. from Haarlem, North Holland, The Netherlands • Published 15th June 2011 • See Jet H.'s 107 projects »

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Step 1
Cut of the bottem and the top of the bottle and so you become a round part like this.
Step 2
Cut of this part in two.
Step 3
Cut small strips of the parts of the plastic.
Step 4
This is what i have used. If you haven't found this, you can use as well foil tin and glueing it with yel glue on the plastic.
You can find this kind of tape in the hardware for isolation material.
Step 5
Cut of the tape strips of 1cm or 0,6 "
Step 6
Glue the tin foil tape on the beginning of the top of the plastic strip.
Step 7
Pick the little stick put the beginning side of the tinfoil strip on it and wrap this around on the stick.
Step 8
Hold the end of the strip with a plier on the stick in place.
Step 9
the melting in shape.
Warning:
Do this only outside!!!
Be careful those heathing guns are really hot and... Don't use your fingers or feel how hot the plastic is.
Your skin don't like that.XD!!!!!

At first you must kept the stick diagonal towards the heating gun mouth, so the heath can go inside to make a nice closed shape . Watch the pict.
i always start with the nearby side of the top.
Step 10
Turn the stick to the other edge of your bead and do the same.
If you see a not flat part in between just give the bead some more heath on the top like you normaly would do.
Step 11
Your bead is now in shape and just lay it away to cool down.
Step 12
When the bead is cool to pick up with your fingers you can slide the bead of the stick and you're done with one bead,
The rest will be the same steps.
it's take less time to make more.

Hope you liked it and that you will have profite of this.
wish you much luck and fun with this beading trick.
thank you for stopping by;-D
be creative and crafty and have fun;-D