A couple of years ago, I bought 2 bottles of IKEA Pyssla – more commonly known as Perler or Hama beads, or the generic name, fuse beads. If you’re not familiar with them, they’re little plastic beads that you arrange into a pattern or picture on a special pegboard, then heat using your iron to […]

I’ve been making more shrink plastic rings, and I’ve refined my method so I can produce these: Click for larger version I really like how they’ve turned out. And there’s also the added bonus of watching the long strips of shrinkydinks wiggle about as they shrink 🙂 Would anyone be interested in a tutorial on […]

I’ve wanted to try making shrink plastic jewellery for months, but I found some lovely rubber stamps yesterday that are only 3/8″ long, so when the stamped images are shrunk they are beautifully delicate. I made this prototype ring in just a few minutes, to test the concept. It’s not perfect – I’m very inexperienced […]