Wednesday, August 24, 2011

ICC#34- Flying by the Lobes of My Ears

So, was that a lame title?  It was a twist on flying by the seat of my pants.  Nothing makes a joke funnier than when you explain it.


Anyway, the theme for this week's Iron Craft Challenge was transportation.  I decided to stick with one of my favorite crafty materials, shrinky dink.  I made some "paper airplane" earrings modeled after those little wooden airplanes that you can punch out and stick together.  I had no idea if this would even work, but I like experimenting.


I started with a very simple design, just the body and the wing.  The image above is the template I used. I just looked at some designs online and then sketched out my own.  I cut out the pieces from the shrinky dink and then cut a small slit in the body to just fit the wing.  I found that it needed to be wide enough to accommodate the wing size once it had baked.


Then I stuck them together and baked them!  I wanted to make sure the wing wouldn't fall out prematurely so I made a little foil holder to bake it on.  After it had started to shrink, I used some chopsticks to move it off the holder so that it could flatten.



I then glued on jump rings and attached some earring wires.  That's it!  I kept my design fairly simply because this was more of an experiment piece.  You could probably alter the design by drawing on it, adding beads, or whatever.



7 comments:

  1. How clever you are with the shrinky dink!

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  2. You should definitely put these in your shop! Airplanes are just mechanical birds after all ;)

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  3. Oh, these are so awesome! You are indeed the shrinky dink queen.

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  4. That is really cool. It would've taken me several attempts to get the wings straight, to stay in place, etc.

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  5. Those are so fun! I bet if you put these in your shop they'd do well!

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  6. I love these! They're perfect. Shrinky Dinks are so fun.

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