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Make your own cheap bling and everyone will know your name!
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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Step 1You 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.
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Step 2Print 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.
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Step 3Place small dots of sticky tack around the letters.
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Step 4Place 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.
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Step 5Carefully 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.
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Step 6Punch two holes out of the top corners at either side of the name.
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Step 7Remove the paper backing and sticky tack from the name.
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Step 8Shrink down in an oven.
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Step 9Cover the backs of the crystals in clear glue, I used nail varnish, and carefully place around the letters using tweezers.
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Step 10Cover the whole necklace so that it sparkles.
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Step 11Slip jump rings through the two holes you made earlier and attach your name pendant to a chain. Voila, you're ready to sparkle!
I'll have to try it this weekend.
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