Monday, December 24, 2007

Button Ornaments

I have some white, brown, and black shrinkable plastic that can't be colored with the paints and pencils that I have. I bought a variety pack to see which kind I liked best (the previously mentioned Frosted Rough N'Ready won out) and have been trying out some projects to use all the different kinds. Anyway, I cut out the tree shapes from the plastic and punched a bunch of holes. Then I used some colored buttons for the "ornaments" on the trees. I guess you could use thread but I used colored wire here.



These pictures show the size of the white tree before and after shrinking. I am still entranced by the shrinking process...

2 comments:

grubekl said...

amazing! that's really cool. did you ever use shrinky-dinks when you were a kid? they performed similar amazing feats.

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