How do you think it would work if, instead of using a candle to soften the plastic, you used a embossing heat gun? It would eliminate having black on the spoons caused by the candle. Just a thought. I'm anxious to try this craft. Love it!!!!! oops! I hit the wrong keyon candle.
How do you think it would work if, instead of using a cancle to soften the plastic, you used a embossing heat gun? It would eliminate having black on the spoons caused by the candle. Just a thought. I'm anxious to try this craft. Love it!!!!!
Alyx
Yes it did, it takes a lot of time to fuse together but eventually you'll get right. You could try to melt the plastic and try to push the handles together onto something cold and flat like the underside of a cup for example... the melted part will be even, perhaps that'll help but I don't know you'll have to try.
I guess using a hot glue gun would work fine too, the glue is more flexible than the plastic the spoon is made of and using a hot glue gun will certainly safe you a lot of time of making the petals stick together.
Sidney Y.
Plastic or polyethylene plastic only gives off fumes when overheated when the temperature gets over the boiling point. While it won't actually melt, it will soften and lose structural integrity...it'll sag and droop but there is not much sign of fumes.
Breathing in these fumes is not a constant thing. If it happens on a regular basis then you could probably expect brain dammage and lung problems. Kinda like sniffing glue or gas fumes. But as I said in the description you might want to open up a window for ventilation.
I tried a similar thing with plastic forks today just to mess around and i made this awesome spike thing haha my friend stole it from me bc she liked it xD
If you read step 2 carefully it says how you should bend the tip. Perhaps the picture isn't that clear but I couldn't hold the camera, take a picture, hold the spoon with the pliers and shape the petals all at the same time haha...
I'm a little unclear on how you shape the petals in step 2, being you're holding the spoon with the pliers and I would assume the spoon gets hot, what/ how are you shaping the petals?
Beautiful and a great idea, definitly will be giving this a shot.. Great way to reuse spoons you would normally just throw out... something that was once wasted alot now has a use. I'm sure there are other ideas out there to reuse them but this is the first one I have come across besides washing and reusing them...
@ Abby - Beginning with the 10 outer petals simply take two spoons and melt what's left of the handles and try to fuse the two handles together. Fuse placing them next to each other and repeat this step 4 more times so that you end up with 5 fused pieces each having two petals.
awesome , love it, great tute as well,
only don't does this inside and not only by a open window, i have messed up my longs of all the dioxine. it's sooo poisoned.
it's soo cool i want to make them too;-D
(echt gaaf meis!!! en op de top 1!!!! he gefeliciteerd!!!;-D xxxxxxx)
@ Ana P. - Thank you for your comment on my plastic spoon rose I have not tried to make petals and a stem but I guess it would work if you left a little bit of the handle to make the petals. You could use metal wire for the stem and glue it onto the underside of the rose and use masking tape to cover up the melted parts.
CO + K User
http://craft-connection.blogspot.com/2012/01/diy-plastic-rose.html
love it so much...
Yes it did, it takes a lot of time to fuse together but eventually you'll get right. You could try to melt the plastic and try to push the handles together onto something cold and flat like the underside of a cup for example... the melted part will be even, perhaps that'll help but I don't know you'll have to try.
Plastic or polyethylene plastic only gives off fumes when overheated when the temperature gets over the boiling point. While it won't actually melt, it will soften and lose structural integrity...it'll sag and droop but there is not much sign of fumes.
Breathing in these fumes is not a constant thing. If it happens on a regular basis then you could probably expect brain dammage and lung problems. Kinda like sniffing glue or gas fumes. But as I said in the description you might want to open up a window for ventilation.
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Brilliant! Thank you for sharing!
we can use - used plastic spoon
like it very much
CO + K User
only don't does this inside and not only by a open window, i have messed up my longs of all the dioxine. it's sooo poisoned.
it's soo cool i want to make them too;-D
(echt gaaf meis!!! en op de top 1!!!! he gefeliciteerd!!!;-D xxxxxxx)
I can't wait to start making this
@ Elle V. - It does!!!