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A cute, cheap swallow necklace
I made this necklace of a cute little swallow by tracing the image that I wanted onto shrink plastic and then making little dots of color with permanent markers. I attached some jump rings, chain, and a clasp and now I love my new necklace. :D

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Amberlynn Reid
Amberlynn Reid · Kathmandu, Central Region, NP · 67 projects
I've never used shrink plasti...does it scratch the neck??
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Sarie
Sarie · Chicago, Illinois, US · 13 projects
I used a piece of shrink plastic that was about the size of a piece of printer paper. And I did attach the jump rings after it was shrunk.
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Momo
Momo · Ayr, Scotland, GB · 2 projects
What size of sheet of shrink plastic did you use? I've never used this before and all the types i'm seeing shrink to much smaller then your lovely necklace. Sorry for sounding like a noob!
momo Happy
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PJ
PJ · Avondale, Arizona, US · 96 projects
That is beautiful, I love the bird.I really like bird things.Good job.Did you attach the
jump rings and such after it was shrunk?
pj
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RustyFish
RustyFish · Derby, England, GB · 21 projects
Fantastic image and jewellery. Could I ask some advice: I used sharpies but how do you stop the colour coming off? I've tried nail varnish, varnish, pva and other stuff but nothing works? any ideas?
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Basketbchic
Basketbchic · U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado, US · 11 projects
Did you do the entire thing with sharpies? or did you use colored pencils for the 1st layer and speckle over?
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Hdoddles
Hdoddles · 46 projects
Its like a tatoo only better !
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Claire M.
Claire M. · Manchester, England, GB · 4 projects
Thank you so much!! It really is gorgeous, I'm going to give it another go Happy xxx
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Sarie
Sarie · Chicago, Illinois, US · 13 projects
I would suggest using white shrink plastic. That's what I used. Happy
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Claire M.
Claire M. · Manchester, England, GB · 4 projects
Its beautiful! I tried this, but the colours just didn't show up Happy
Any tips? I used black shrink plastic and red, blue and green sharpies. I coloured in the rough side of the plastic but they are very dull, dark colours (you can hardly make them out at all). Thanks for any advice you can offer xx
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