Thursday, June 23, 2011

Shrink plastic necklace with fire-polished Czech glass

















The necklace uses wire wrapping as well as crimped stringing wire to combine shrink plastic flowers with Czech glass. Again, it's a very time-consuming project, but it has a little bit of vintage flair and made a great gift for my Mom's birthday!





Before sticking them in the oven, the flowers were about 2 1/4 inches across. Here are the flowers before shrinking:






















Afterward, they were about 1". Notice the comparison with the quarter in each picture. Also, notice that the flowers become a little darker and more concentrated in color.










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