Diy Gift: Make earrings from shrink plastic🌸

🔧. Required equipment.

1️⃣ Main material

• Plastic Shrink Sheet

• Pencil (for sketching)

• Waterproof pen / permanent liner (line cutting)

• Best shrink 👉 suitable color: wood color

• Marker alcohol color or watercolor / pastel color is fine, but must be very coated.

2️⃣ Cutting + drilling device

• Scissors

• Pointed steel / needle / awl (used to drill holes, before baking only)

• Tongs (hot tongs)

3️⃣ Baking equipment

• Oven (best) or hot air gun

4️⃣ Earrings

• Earrings hooks (ear hooks / classes)

• Small Jump ring

• 2 flat mouth pliers (on-off loop)

5️⃣ Enamel device (choose one)

• UV resin; or

• Mod Podge / Acrylic varnish (thin, multiple cycles)

🪜 How to do it step by step

Step 1: Draw

• Draw the rough side of the shrink plate

• Draw about 2.5-3 times larger than the actual size

• Except edges. Don't draw closely.

Step 2: Paint

• Paint first

• Really wait to dry

• Cut the black line later → The work will look clean.

Step 3: Drill a hole.

• Drill at the position where the loop will be inserted

• The hole must be a little bigger than you think (because it will shrink)

❗ If forgetting to drill = very difficult to solve after baking

Step 4: Cut

• Cut along the shape. A curved angle looks better than an acute angle (not sharp, not cut).

Step 5: Baking

Oven

• 160-170 ° C

• 1-3 minutes

• It will bend → roll → unroll → flat

Hot air gun

• Blow away

• Blow point by point

• Don't be impatient or twisted.

Done:

• Flat paper + heavy items

Step 6: Glaze

• Specific coating, shrink slice

• Don't stick to metal.

Resin

• Thin 1-2 rounds enough

Mod Podge / Varnish

• Very thin

• 3-5 rounds

Step 7: Assemble the earrings.

• Open the jump ring

• Insert shrink pieces

• Put on the earrings hook

• Close the loop completely

Finished. ✔️

⚠️ Mistakes that newbies often miss.

• Draw small → shrink and look tiny without detail

• Drill a hole after baking → will break

• Coated with Metal → Resin Broken / Slipped

• Use glue instead of jump ring → definitely loose

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