Buying Frenzy + Experiments

luxoccasions:


The last thing I need is all this new stuff. Yet, when I'm tired from a long day of making, there's nothing I want more than to poke around etsy and buy pretties.

ourbackyard:


neatothings:

ChelleV2:

I'm proly gonna go into a tailspin of supply panic again.

rubycquins:


missficklemedia:



Marsi10:



GemmeTresor:
Somebody please stop me.


So anyways,  today I was experimenting. I took eye pins, cheap beads, and eyeshadow that I haven't worn since the Carter administration.

 I pulled out my trusty heat gun- the kind from the hardware store not the wimpy craft store kind, and some UTEE.

And made these:

Squeeeeee!!!!

One note of warning, if you wanna try, I recommend stone of some kind. These above burned some. And here's what happened when I tried wood:

Basically, they have to handle a lot of heat and displace it evenly. I had to heat and re-heat them to get the surfaces smooth so that there wouldn't be some random glob, or at least so that the glob pointed directly downward... upward? Oh and I kept dipping them into the pink glitter over and over again, after which I had to then reheat to get it into the UTEE. I tried with some little round jaspers I'm not crazy about and they worked awesome. I'm thinking this might be a good use for all those stone chip strands folks always have lying around without any use for. Of course, then you wouldn't get the perfect rounds, but. Don't know 'til you try. 

You might end up with something really neat!