YEEHAA! (Sorry, I couldn't help myself!)
Today's project is a cute bracelet with icons that represent our cowboys - boots, hats and horse shoes!
These cute decorations were made using shrink plastic, Spectrum noir alcohol ink pens and Frantic Stamper Precision Dies (Here is the set that I used if you are interested: Cowboy Accessories - three die set FRA-Die-09123) .
These dies were a little trickier to use with shrink plastic. I found that I needed to hold my heat gun over the individual die cut 3-4 inches and heat the entire piece at once in order for it to turn out really well. Although I did use the alcohol ink pens before I heated my shrink plastic, I also usd them for touch ups afterwards. Also, since this is alcohol ink, I didn't bother to sand the shrink plastic before I colored it.
Once I finished the shrinking and coloring, I took some gold tone jump rings and used them to attach my charms to my bracelet. Since the die cuts already had holes in them I didn't need to punch any beforehand.
I really like the way that the boots turned out. The colors and the look of long wear really fit these boots!
I wanted something colorful on my bracelet o I chose to make the horseshoe blue. The horseshoe didn't really have any holes bigg enough to string a jump ring through so I wound some gold tone wire around the horseshoe and created a loop to attach to my bracelet.
I hope you enjoyed my cowboy bracelet. Now go make one of your own!
Thanks for stopping by!
Lis
