Tutorial: plastic keychains
I know a ton of you have been waiting for this one. Teaching you to make your own plastic keychains!
To start off, I think the biggest question everyone has is what I use to make them. I work with shrink film. You might be familiar with Shinky Dink brand shrink film as a kid. I use Grafix brand white inkjet shrink film. The inkjet kind is relatively pricey compared to the regular kind. If you’re using regular, I don’t recommend you stick it in your printer. Sharpie markers would be good for that.
Alright, now open up the file with the images that you’re working with. Make sure your images are a lot bigger than you want your finished product to be since they shrink significantly.
You’ll also want to lighten the opacity to about half. I go somewhere between 50-60%.
Now print your image out! I’ve found that it works best for me when I have it at the plain paper setting, and standard print quality.
Holepunch with a 1/4” holepuncher BEFORE you shrink them. It’s so much more work to have to punch holes when your plastic is thick!
Cut out your design, leaving the amount of border you want.
Set them on a tray for convenience. An aluminum foil sheet works too, but I recommend cookie trays because they are easier and quicker to get out of the oven.
Preset heat. Your shrink film package will tell you what temperature to set it at, but I find that it isn’t always accurate for me. I generally set temperature to 350 degrees or so.
Put them in the oven. Remember to keep track of time! I leave them in for about a minute and a half.
After time is up they should be super small! Magic!
If your charms are not flat, put something heavy on it right out of the oven when they are still hot and malleable.
If you’d like to, you can seal them now. In my last two batches, I used clear topcoat nail polish. The problem with that is that I need between 3-5 coats of it, and it takes a while to dry. I’ve been experimenting with modpodge.
For lariats, you can use jump rings or lobster clasps.
Here is one that I made that wasn’t sealed. The finished texture after shrinking is a little bit rough. There’s nothing wrong with leaving them unsealed, but because they are inkjet printed, the colors wash right of without protection.
This is one that was sealed with modpodge. The colors become a little more vibrant and smooth and water resistant. Things often get stuck on when applying or drying so be careful.
These ones down here were sealed with clear nail polish. They come out shiny if you put enough coats, but the grainy texture will still be there.
Well, there ya go! Have fun making your own keychains!
Drawing Process
I seem to get this question a lot!! I always think it’s weird because I don’t care much about the cleanness of my lines so I leave them rather sketchy generally. Most of the time I’m just posting doodles, so those are either sketchy sketches or freestyle lines. For things like stickers, I do the process below.
First I draw a rough sketch of what I’m working on
Once I’m satisfied with what I got, I change the opacity to 50 or below.
Then I grab the pen (or sometimes I draw with brush or whatever) and start drawing neater lines over the sketch.
Ayup and then there’s the lines!
Inb4 anyone asks, I do use a tablet. I have a wacom intuos 5. If you’re someone who has trouble keeping your hand steady drawing lines with a mouse, I suggest the pen tool method on photoshop. Before I started using a tablet (I didn’t get one until maybe 4 or 5 years after I started using photoshop), I used the pen tool method. I made a pen tool lineart tutorial LONG ago (it must have been 7th grade or so) but I will refrain from posting it because of my terrible use of internet chatspeak to explain things. It’s a terribly embarrassing part of my past life.
How to Insert Photos/Gifs into a post
Because some friends needed some help doing it.
Step 1: Find a picture or a gif. (Assuming you have permission to use it of course.)
Right click on the picture and select this option.
Save image as. Now you’ll see a window that pops up like so
You can change the name of it if you want, but YOU MUST KEEP THE ENDING PART INTACT
If you don’t save it as something with .gif (or whatever file format) intact, your picture will not save properly! Feel free to delete anything before that period though
Now you make a text post and look for the option that says upload photo
Right there. You’ll see a window pop up to pick a file
Select the picture/gif/whatever you just saved and click “open”
Your photo is now in the post!
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As everything melts into s—i—l—e—n—c—e and grief.
When I hold up my hand,
The fragile `s`n`o`w` melts upon my palm and dissolves to ≦nothing.≧
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Once you gather,
It’s all in one single piece.
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If I were to speak,
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You can tell me you’re l~o~n~e~l~y,
You can tell me you’re a_c_h_i_n_g.
I’ll try to find a way to {cure} your pain.
I beg you to not <leave> me,
Please don’t ever |b|e|t|r|a|y| me,
I don’t want to be a l o n e ,
Like once before.
Even if we’re a p a r t right now,
Can our souls become one?
As
`s`n`o`w`
falls
down,
You slowly wither away in this world.
If it’s even possible,
Can I hear
your voice
one more time?
✘✉
Send ✉ for an drunk text
TO: A n n a
FROM: F u s h i m i
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Send ✘ for an unsent text
TO: A n n a
FROM: F u s h i m i
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-MESSAGE SENT TO DRAFTS-
“—Tch. It’s not my job to care anymore…”
