valentine angel pendant by me, kristen!

Here is another angel that I recently made as a paper pendant. I think she has such a sweet and angelic face! Sorry I don’t have much time to write tonight, weekdays are super busy for me now that school is back in full swing. I will post more this weekend….look for a new tutorial on Sunday night!

Here is my first ever blog craft tutorial ! You can make this sweet angel pendant/pin with a few supplies and a bit of time!

Here is a list of items that you will need:

1. poly shrink plastic

2.fine black sharpie

3. colored pencils

4. 24 g. craft wire

5. wire cutters, round nose plier, 1/8 hole punch

6. a few beads (with holes big enough to fit on the wire)

7. pin back

8.industrial strength glue (I use quick grab or e-6000)

* for shrinking the plastic, I use a craft heat tool and a couple of blocks of wood. You may want to use and oven-follow the shrink plastic instructions…

start with a piece of shrink plastic approx.3.5x4.5 inches. sand one side until sheen is gone.

draw your image on the sanded side using your sharpie marker. (if you are satisfied with your drawing, I recommend making a copy of your image so that you may trace it again in the future).

cut out your shrink plastic image

color (the rough side) using your pencils

punch holes for the arms, legs and "hair".

this is what the rough side looks like once it is all colored and the holes are punched.

now you can shrink it using a craft heat gun (you may also use an oven or toaster oven-follow manufacturer directions for this procedure).

shrink it until it is flat. let it cool before handling.

add wire and beads for hair. "curl" hair using round nose pliers.

continue adding wire to make hair full and cover up the punch holes and add arms and legs.

make a separate little heart on scrap of plastic, cut out and shrink.

glue on a pin back and/or bail on the side that you colored on-the opposite side (shiny side) will be your front.

Isn't she cute?

If you don’t want to make one yourself, you can purchase one that I have made by visiting my Etsy shop!

I admit it. I am a bad blogger. I don’t mean to be, it’s just that time goes by so darn fast and there is always so much to do! I always WANT to post things to my blog but first I have to either have the time to MAKE or FIND new things and that is the hard part!

I promised that if I painted anything (because I recently took up painting) that I would post it here first. Well, here is one of my new paintings…

Please let me know what you think