Wine Glass Charms (Stamped Shrink Plastic)

These are another project I'll be presenting at one of my CTMH Home Decor Club meetings...shrink plastic wine glass charms!!!  These are super-simple and super-fun and they're inexpensive enough to have a set for every occasion!

To make the charms, I stamped a flourish from the "You've Got Flair" My Acrylix Stamp Set in Staz-On ink onto a shrink plastic sheet.  I turned the stamped sheet over and colored in the images with colored Sharpie markers.  Then I cut out the images and used a Crop-a-Dile to punch a small hole in one end of each one.

Using my heat gun, I heated the image until it shrunk and became hard (about 30 seconds).  Once cool, I attached a silver ring to the charm.  To assemble the wire hoops, I put six beads on the wire and attached the metal ring with the charm on it in the middle.  Then I looped one end of the wire and then bent the other end of the wire so it would hook into the loop.

You can make different colored charms for each guest in your party and no one will confuse their drinks!  Just a note, though:  darker colors (greens, blues, purples) don't turn out...they appear almost gray or black once shrunk, so stick to lighter colors like red, orange, yellow and pink.

Thanks for looking!!!  :)

Shrink Plastic Charm Bracelet-CTMH

I decided to try my hand (hah...no pun intented) at making a bracelet using shrink plastic charms!  Using my "You've Got Flair" stamp set from Close To My Heart, I stamped the images using Staz-On black ink onto shrink plastic (Hobby Lobby).  Then I turned the sheet over, colored the images using colored permanent markers (Hobby Lobby), then cut them out.  I used a mini hole punch to make a small hole in the top of each charm.

To shrink them, I used my heat gun (I protected my work surface by putting the pieces on a small cookie sheet with a pot holder underneath).  I held each one down with my craft tweezers and heated until it shrunk and became hard.  I let it cool, then lifted from the cookie sheet.

I bought a premade bracelet and little silver rings (Hobby Lobby) and attached the charms every four holes on the bracelet.  And that's it!  I love the personalized look it has and plan to make more.  I think my next one will be with some jumbo letter stamps, for the Mess Maker's teachers at preschool...  :)

I wonder if the Cricut markers would work on shrink plastic???  Off to the Cricut Message Board to find out...