MONDAY

I know it is a little early, but I am going to begin the TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS posts starting today.  That way, if you see anything you would like to have or make, you will have time to do it before Christmas actually gets here.

I will be posting 3D projects, tags, gifts, etc that you might want to try making yourself.

DAY 1

Today's post is wine glass markers made with stamps and Shrinky Dink Paper.  I LOVE doing these.  They are so much fun.  Even your kids can do them, which would be a fun project for you to work on together as a gift for someone, for them to use themselves, or for them to help you make for guests that you might be having over the holidays.

Here is a set of rings I made as a gift.  I made 4 sets for 4 couples we exchange gifts with.  I just needed something inexpensive, yet nice.  I think this fits the bill!

You can make any image you want that is not too big.  I used a deer, a crab, and a butterfly from retired sets.  I used the puppy from the Bella & Friends set (pg 30 AC), and wine glasses from the Half Full set (pg 22 AC).

Stamp your image on the smooth side of the Shrinky Dink paper using Staz On. Turn over to the rough side and color with colored pencils or alcohol markers.  I used our great Stampin' Blends.

Punch a hole where you want the ring to go through.  Make sure it is large enough.  It will also shrink and you want to make sure it stays the right size.  I used the large punched circle on the Crop-o-dile.  On some of the  finished products, it still shrunk a little too much, but the marker did go onto the skinny part of the ring - it just wouldn't slide onto the larger part. 

You can then place them in the oven to shrink them.  OR, I like to lay them on a heat resistant surface, hold the Shrinky Dink down with a pointy object (like scissors or your pokey tool) and heat them with your heat gun.  It is so fun to watch them curl up and then straighten back out.  Don't panic as it curls!  Keep holding your heat gun on the marker until it gets flat.  As soon as it is flat, I lay a stamping block down on top of it and press to make sure it is completely flattened out.

These then go on an earring ring that you can find in your favorite craft store.

I am gifting mine in our Mini Pizza Boxes (144645 - 8 boxes), decorated with Under the Mistletoe DSP from the AC and those cute little bows from last year that were on the Clearance Rack.

You can make them all a Christmas theme, or, as I did, a set of mix and match.

Hope you will try these out.  They really are fun to make.