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Give everyone something to tweet about with a silhouette birdie necklace!
I dreamed about a necklace like this a couple of nights ago and decided to give it a shot.
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Step 1Find some bird images you like and trace the silhouette on to paper.
I googled some and then traced them straight from the screen - it works well like a lightbox.
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Step 2Carefully cut out the birdie templates.
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Step 3Place lots of little dots of blue tack on the back of the templates.
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Step 4Stick the templates down on to black shrink plastic.
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Step 5Carefully cut out the shrink plastic bird, cutting around the paper template.
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Step 6Lay out the birds like you'd like them on your necklace and work out where you need to punch holes. Remember you will need holes to attach them to each other and to attach them to the ribbon.
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Step 7I punched a small hole on the middle bird's beak so that I can add a charm.
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Step 8Shrink down your birds in an oven until small, making sure to squish them flat after.
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Step 9Attach a small length of wire through the wing of your first bird.
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Step 10Thread on some red seed beads and attach to the second bird.
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Step 11Attach the third bird in the same way and slip two jump rings on to the outer rings.
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Step 12Add a small charm to the middle bird's beak if you want.
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Step 13You can now attach this to a necklace chain but I decided to make two small cord loops and then attach it to a ribbon, as I'm allergic to nickel.
Thanks for the idea!