I made these a few weeks ago, and I think they’re pretty cute. You can definitely tell they are home made though because I messed up a bit, the wings are slightly different shape/sizes! D: Oops. And I thought I was so clever because I simply flipped my initial drawing of the wing and traced it for the second wing thus inversed….But then I made the mistake of forgetting I wanted them matched, and erased and redrew. Sigh.
I’ve done shrink plastic pieces quite a few times now, they’re really fun to do! You can buy shrink plastic as the commercial product known as “Shrinky Dinks” at your local crafts store but they are rather expensive…! Instead you can use any #6 plastic, for example the boxes sushi from take out sushi places or sushi bars comes in. It’s environmental and crafty. I first learned this technique from a craft blog (I forgot which), and then searched around the web for more posts on it. There is an youtube video of it too. After all, it involves baking plastic and that sounded risky to me. But numerous people have been documented to have done it and survived. So I took the plunge, and hey look, I’m still alive!
