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Cool Shrinky rings
I had seen somewhere rings made from shrinky plastic that were stamped. I wanted to do something a little more elaborate. So this is what I came up with. I especially love the skull rings. Cool!!
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You Will Need
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Step 1First cut a piece that is about 7 inches long with either regular scissors for a straight edge or the decorative cut. The width you can size to whatever you like. I cut mine about an inch or so wide. Then using a hole punch, put a hole right in the center.
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Step 2With your sharpie, draw a skull or any picture of your choice about 1 1/2 x 1 inch and cut out either directly on the edge of the image or a little beyond and then punch hole in top center.
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Step 3When the band has been in oven the appropriate amount of time, you have about 10 seconds to work with before it cools. Quickly wrap around dowel (or whatever you found to use the approximate the size you want your ring to be) and hold in place for a few seconds. The piece will be hot so you may want to use oven mitts or something. If you at first or second or fifth try to get the perfect round shape to your object, just put the piece back in the oven until it lies flat and try it again. Note: the more times you do this it will get smaller and smaller, so it may not completely wrap around your dowel by the time you get it right.
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Step 4With the hole punch confetti left over from when you put the hole into the ring base, use X-acto knife to put a little hole through it. First lay the piece on a protected surface and make hole with the knife then twist around to make it big enough for the flat head pin to fit through.
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Step 5It's better to use gel super glue because it's not runny, apply glue on inside of confetti on opposite side of head pin and put through back side of ring base.
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Step 6Put the ring back on your form (dowel) to hold in place until it dries.
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Step 7Bake skull while other piece is drying.
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Step 8Add metal spacers and use pliers to bend pen at a right angle. Cut to about an 1/4 or so. It is easier to do this with it still on your form.
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Step 9Bend pen to curve at base of spacer to hold tightly into place.
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Step 10You can either add a jump ring to add skull, or reopen pin to attach it as I did.
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