This week's challenge at Fantabulous Cricut is to create a project using a leaf for Fall!
I haven't made wine glass charms in a while, and thought this was the perfect opportunity to make some new ones to celebrate this gorgeous season! They're soooooo easy and really turned out pretty cute! To make the leaves, I used the Storybook cartridge and cut the leaf (shift "B") out of clear shrink plastic at 2 1/2" three times. I inked each leaf using a different color of Adirondack (Tim Holtz) alcohol ink with a sponge dauber. Then I punched a hole at the top of each with a standard size hole punch.
To shrink the plastic, I used my heat gun. The two sides of the leaves wanted to overlap a little while shrinking and not lay completely flat, which actually made them look a little more "realistic" and less one-dimensional. One shrunk, I added them to a silver ring and added some coordinating glass beads and the ring of leaves to a metal charm loop.
That's it! Hope you check out Fantabulous Cricut's FANTABULOUS prize for this week and enter your own Fall leaf project for your chance to win!
Have a creative day! :)
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ReplyDeletewow, what a great idea. now I just have to find me some shrink plastic !
ReplyDeletevery pretty Lori, I have bought the shrinky dink but havent used it yet. Yours turned out beautiful!
ReplyDeleteI loved this as soon as I saw it on photobucket! It's simply beautiful and looks more like glass than shrink plastic. Gorgeous work, friend!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great project...and it could be adapted to any holiday...or celebration!! Wow, ideas running through my head
ReplyDeleteSuch a cool project! Love the rich colors from the alcohol inks!
ReplyDeletenow that is a fantabulously creative idea! i never thought to do something like that!! thanks for sharing
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