Guest Christine Angeli utilizes shrink plastic, stamps, clear embossing ink, and a heat gun to make tiny, decorative book covers. The book covers are combined with sticky-note pads that may be attached to a necklace or pin. Whether they carry inspirational quotes, poetry, love notes, reminders or even on-the-spot journal notes, these miniature primers are easy yet unique pieces of jewelry.
For the show, Angeli sponged paints onto plastic and covered the piece with clear embossing powder.
Materials
shrink plastic*
sandpaper
pigment pads
clear embossing powder
heat gun or oven
assorted stamps
hole punch
wire, pencil or chip stick (to make binding) Post-it or other sticky-note pads, paper, fold-out message (for inside book)
cord, jump rings, and beads (if making a necklace)
* Some shrink plastic comes already sanded. Other types of plastic sheets will need to be sanded to give them "teeth" to grab paint.
Steps
- Punch holes in 2 sheets of shrink plastic for the front and back covers.
- After decorating, place plastic on a tile surface (something that can withstand heat) and shrink the plastic by heating it, either with the appropriate tool or in an oven. Do both sheets, front and back.
Note: While this may be accomplished in the oven, the heat-shrink tool gives more control and is faster.
- Place the sticky-note pad between plastic sheets. Lay pencil, knitting needle, or chopstick between left side and wrap wire through holes and around stick to create the binding. Pull out stick when complete.
- Add jump ring to top of wire binding and add cording and beads to make necklace.
Guests Christine Angeli
Author, Instructor, Designer, CraftwithMe.com
E-mail:
www.craftwithme.com
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