Awesome tutorial, it's really straightforward and the pictures are clear, but you also explained some of what you had to do to make it work (the 14 minutes in your oven)
Great job with the how-to! I love the idea-I used to melt those clear prescription bottles way back when. I would put a marble in the bottle then melt it-instant pendant. Alas, the clear bottles don't exist anymore, but the melting goes on....
I made these little flowers into pendants by putting a jumpring under onme of the beads in the flower. This seemed to work and now the jumprings and flowers are fused together!
Scarlet... Have you tried washers or eyelets? I make necklaces in this way and use different coloured eyelets to make a hole for the cord to fit through. Hope this helps =]
It did "melt" into a gooy glob on one side more than the other - I use a toaster oven and it's a cheap one, so that certainly could be the problem. There are so cool though.
I'm glad so many people enjoyed my "flowers".
To Jeri, I'm sorry you have been having trouble with your flowers keeping their shape. The only thing I can think that may be going on is a "hot spot" in your oven. While making some other melted pony bead projects I noticed that some pieces melted much faster than others,always on the same side of the oven. The things in this area melt too fast and are harder to control. I hope this helps. As to putting holes in them..I have successfully reamed a hole using a bead reamer. I tried using a nail to put the hole in the flowers while they were still warm and it doesn't work.
To get a hole in the flower to use it on a bracelet, have you tried putting a hole in it while it's cooling? Maybe with a toothpick or a piece of wire? Putting a hole in it while it is still soft will be easier than when it's cool... I haven't tried this yet, but I am going to this week and I'll let you know how it turns out.
To Jeri, I'm sorry you have been having trouble with your flowers keeping their shape. The only thing I can think that may be going on is a "hot spot" in your oven. While making some other melted pony bead projects I noticed that some pieces melted much faster than others,always on the same side of the oven. The things in this area melt too fast and are harder to control. I hope this helps. As to putting holes in them..I have successfully reamed a hole using a bead reamer. I tried using a nail to put the hole in the flowers while they were still warm and it doesn't work.
Do you know if there's any way to put holes in them though? Since I don't have any ring bases, I wanted to make a bunch and put them on a bracelet.
<3!
Sorry we don't get all these things here in Malaysia ( shameful but true! )