personalized shrinky dink bracelet & silhouette notes
Today I did a billion things, but most importantly, I finished the silhouette notecards for my daughter’s thank you notes! I printed them with a gocco. I think they came out quite smashing. The blue is very brilliant in the real world (I took this photo in the dark).
I also started my next project - a personalized shrinky dink bracelet for a dear friend.
My theme for this week is childhood. Shrinky Dinks were very popular when I was a tot, although I never really got into them because you didn’t draw your own pictures and I did not have much use for the little plastic figures. But I have seen the light. I was inspired by a project in Super Crafty. This book taught me how to make my own shrinky dink beads, but instead of using their images, I decided to use my own.
I have a friend who makes me and my family the coolest knit jewelry, toys, bibs, and dishcloths. (check out her stuff at reine.etsy.com). So I wanted to make her something.
She loves typography so I made shrinky dink “beads” with beautiful lettering. I printed out the images onto shrink plastic (the images came from Fancy Alphabets, then I colored in the pictures with colored pencils and cut 2 inch circles. I punched the holes and then baked! I then coated the front with clear nailpolish to preserve the color. Here are the “beads” as they lay out drying:
I hope to assemble the bracelet tomorrow.
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I love the silhouette of Gloria. I have silhouette’s of my brother and me done at Disney World years ago; my step mom had them framed at the time but was going to toss them a few years ago and I took them instead. It’s a great keepsake. I am intrigued by this gocco thingy. How does it work? I am going to google it. Take care!
wow, super-productive you!
What’s a gocco?
A gocco is an amazing japanese printing tool that takes so much of the mess and stress out of silkscreening. This website explains it very well: http://www.gocco.com/prod.HTM
It’s good for small images (you can’t go bigger than 4×6 inches) but it allows you to print really fast and in multiple colors at once.
The problem is that I think Riso, the company that produces them, may have stopped, but they are still available.