To stand out from the crowd and make your image more original, it is not at all necessary to buy expensive jewelry. Even from ordinary plastic, you can make beautiful accessories. This will not require special equipment and professional tools - just a few minutes are enough, and you will become the owner of unique badges or key rings that will accompany you everywhere.
How to make a trinket in a plastic oven
To make do-it-yourself badges for a backpack or denim, as well as original and stylish jewelry for everyday wear, you will need ordinary disposable plastic dishes of any shape (for example, packaging from cakes, cookies and other sweets, food storage containers, empty bottles, etc. .).
To beautifully decorate a backpack, jacket, bag or outerwear, you can make charms in different styles, depending on the desired image: romantic, free, rebellious, etc. Moreover, note that for the manufacture of plastic trinkets in the oven at home, it is advisable to choose the most transparent products with a flat and smooth surface.
Tools and materials
For home "experiments" with plastic, you will need to prepare a basic set of tools in advance:
- scissors or clerical knife;
- hole punch to make holes;
- color markers for drawing;
- brushes with acrylic paints.
In addition, it is recommended to purchase metal chains on which you can then hang your own hand-made masterpieces from plastic blanks.
As a future ornament, it is allowed to use any ready-made template with an interesting pattern. It can be an image on paper or even a photo on the phone. You just have to make a plastic blank of the required size, attach it to the “object” of copying and circle the drawing.
To copy and stroke the outline of images, it is best to use special permanent markers of various colors that are not erased. Do not forget to make holes in the hole for a rope or chain.
Please note that the pictures to be used as a stencil should be large, since the size of the trinkets, badges and other home-made jewelry made of plastic will be reduced at least three times after “cooking”.
What kind of plastic is needed
In order for the badge from the plastic container to turn out beautiful and original, and most importantly - high-quality, you need to use only smooth surfaces, corrugated for this purpose will not work. And, of course, the packaging should be transparent.
If there is no suitable container at hand, use the most ordinary plastic bottles to make key chains. By the way, to quickly and reliably stick pins for badges, use hot glue for this.
The better to colorize
As already mentioned above, to paint a blank of badges cut out on the basis of a template or a stencil of the right size, it is best to use not ordinary school felt-tip pens, but permanent markers that are not erased with a simple flick of the finger. While finished key chains can be painted with acrylic paints or nail polish.
Temperature and baking time
One of the important stages in the manufacture of plastic key chains with their own hands is their mandatory “baking” in the microwave. After all the models of the badges and key rings are ready, simply shift them onto a baking sheet, which must first be covered with parchment, and send the baking sheet to bake the oven in the oven or microwave oven.
The baking temperature should be about 150-160 degrees, and the time of "cooking" - no more than 2-3 minutes. If you overexpose the badges, they will become brittle and will quickly become worthless. After baking, plastic decorations look very presentable and original. As you can see, there is absolutely nothing complicated in how to make a keychain from plastic at home.
Plastic container bracelet
Not only badges with key chains can be made of plastic, but also more refined jewelry and jewelry - for example, a wrist bracelet. You just need to cut into small rectangular blanks (35x45 mm), paint them, and then bake in the oven, as described above.
Before baking with a hole punch, holes must be made in the corners of the plastic rectangles, and the edges can be rounded. Finished products are connected using conventional metal jewelry rings.
Plastic Bottle Bracelets
Crafts from plastic containers can be very different. Badges, trinkets and pendants are just a small part of what you can do with your own hands. For example, from a plastic bottle, as well as improvised tools and materials (scissors, iron and stationery tape), you can still make original bracelets and rings.
