Hand made Keyrings

After watching a video on youtube about making key rings out of shrink plastic I decided that I would give it go. The idea of shrink plastic is to draw/print your design on the plastic (which looks similar to a piece of paper) and once you have cut out the design you then place it into the oven for a few minutes for the plastic to shrink down to the final size. I normally use coloured pencils to draw the images onto the plastic as I have found that the pigments take to the plastic a lot better than permeant marker or pen. After putting the plastic into the oven I normally set the pencil with either some artist fixative or a small spray of hairspray.

The plastic before being cut down

Once the plastic has been cut down, before going into the oven

After being in the oven for about 4 minutes