{"id":525,"date":"2018-05-14T14:46:53","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T18:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wpages\/?p=525"},"modified":"2018-06-06T16:22:49","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T20:22:49","slug":"aprils-mystery-mail-reward-charms-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/aprils-mystery-mail-reward-charms-for\/","title":{"rendered":"April\u2019s Mystery Mail reward \/\/ charms for … ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

… bookmarks or zipper pulls or backpacks or pendants or earrings or …. What would you do with charms if you had them? \"Kir<\/p>\n

These are made using white inkjet-ready shrink film. They are double sided! (Guess I need to work on video skills to show you that). I picked a bunch of scanned art, made a layout, printed that, cut them out, shrank them, sealed them …. I found the instructions at http:\/\/artistsalleyinfo.tumblr.com\/post\/17004939286\/shrinky-dink-charms-tutorial<\/a> very helpful!<\/p>\n

They take a little while to do but once I got (most of?) the process quirks sorted out I think I can do more pretty easily. The green in the photo is a little lighter than it appears there. After I mailed these, I thought to make some cut ’round the dragons…<\/p>\n

Please send suggestions for how to make them better! I’m especially open to sealers that would protect baked ink jet ink. Mod podge seems to stay slight tacky; I’ve got an acrylic that isn’t but is a little offgassy. Recommendations needed!<\/em><\/p>\n

The download-and-color reward for April was a picnic dragon (both JPG and PDF) and working that particular image into something I liked was …educational! \u00a0The one for May (which just posted a few days ago) was much better and easier! June’s all scheduled too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

… bookmarks or zipper pulls or backpacks or pendants or earrings or …. What would you do with charms if you had them? These are made using white inkjet-ready shrink film. They are double sided! (Guess I need to work on video skills to show you that). 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