{"id":7027,"date":"2015-11-05T10:35:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T15:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/?p=7027"},"modified":"2015-11-05T10:38:27","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T15:38:27","slug":"hallowvember-shrinky-charm-bracelet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/?p=7027","title":{"rendered":"Hallowvember: Shrinky Charm Bracelet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/sb-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7028\" src=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/sb-01.jpg\" alt=\"sb 01\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/sb-01.jpg 800w, https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/sb-01-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have a rule about insomnia: after an hour of worrying about clowns eating me, I get up and do something. Last night, the clowns wanted to play with shrink plastic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/sb-02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7029\" src=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/sb-02.jpg\" alt=\"sb 02\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/sb-02.jpg 800w, https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/sb-02-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Usually, I&#8217;ll use #6 plastic containers for my shrink film. This time, I wanted a white background, so I headed for my small stash of commercial sheets. \u00a0Everything except for the cat is stamped in StazOn Jet Black.<\/p>\n<p>I used four stamp sets:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mindscapes Halloween by Inkadinkado (pictured above)<\/li>\n<li>Halloween Hauntings by Tattered Angels<\/li>\n<li>Trick or Treat by Studio G<\/li>\n<li>Beware by Studio G<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/sb-03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7030\" src=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/sb-03.jpg\" alt=\"sb 03\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/sb-03.jpg 800w, https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/sb-03-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I first stamped the cat (Tattered Angels), I had the hole by the tail, and it was so long it curled completely over and fused to the body. Oops. I went to re-stamp, and discovered I was out of white shrink plastic.\u00a0I decided having a black cat would be cute, so I got out the White Opaque StazOn. I was right, it&#8217;s way cute.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/sb-04.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7031\" src=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/sb-04.jpg\" alt=\"sb 04\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/sb-04.jpg 800w, https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/sb-04-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once everything was shrunk, the blank backs looked sad, so I grabbed a damask stamp from Great Impressions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/sb-05.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7032\" src=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/sb-05.jpg\" alt=\"sb 05\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/sb-05.jpg 800w, https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/sb-05-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now they&#8217;re as pretty on the back as the front. That&#8217;s an idea I&#8217;ll be going back to.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/sb-06.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7033\" src=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/sb-06.jpg\" alt=\"sb 06\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/sb-06.jpg 800w, https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/sb-06-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Time for beads! Maybe. I was originally going to go lazy, and use stretch cord, but it wouldn&#8217;t work with the beads I wanted, so I rethought&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/sb-07.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7034\" src=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/sb-07.jpg\" alt=\"sb 07\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/sb-07.jpg 800w, https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/sb-07-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and ended up building a charm bracelet from jump rings. It won&#8217;t be the strongest, so I&#8217;ll have to wear it carefully. \u00a0At this point it&#8217;s about 2:00am, and I probably shouldn&#8217;t be trying to put together patterns from recalcitrant bits of metal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/sb-08.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7035\" src=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/sb-08.jpg\" alt=\"sb 08\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/sb-08.jpg 800w, https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/sb-08-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This looked good, but ended up being four inches long. Sigh. I took it apart and re-designed, and got a decent start before I fell over at 3:00am.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/sb-09.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7036\" src=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/sb-09.jpg\" alt=\"sb 09\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/sb-09.jpg 800w, https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/sb-09-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yay! All done. I managed to get the &#8220;Trick or Treat&#8221; charm on backwards, but hey, it wouldn&#8217;t be me if something wasn&#8217;t cockeyed. \u00a0I absolutely love this thing. I&#8217;m keeping it forever and ever. Or until I catch it on something and the jump rings separate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/sb-10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7037\" src=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/sb-10.jpg\" alt=\"sb 10\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/sb-10.jpg 800w, https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/sb-10-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a rule about insomnia: after an hour of worrying about clowns eating me, I get up and do something. Last night, the clowns wanted to play with shrink plastic. Usually, I&#8217;ll use #6 plastic containers for my shrink film. This time, I wanted a white background, so I headed for my small stash [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-month-of-spookdays","category-halloween","category-craft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7027"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7039,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7027\/revisions\/7039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}