Cowboy Bracelet

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