How can I make charms for jewellery using my own photos and images?
There are lots of ways of making “charms” with photographic images on them besides using shrink plastic and I don’t even know if it would work all that well. If you’re really interested in finding and using shrink plastics though, check out this page at my site for brands, lessons, tips, etc.: http://glassattic.com/polymer/MISC.htm (…click on SHRINKING Plastics) Then try googling a brand name or just “shrink plastic” in quotes along with the word UK. Other ways though are to basically just decoupage images (photos, photocopies, inkjet prints, magazine images, etc.) onto a surface. Or to put those images under a coat of epoxy resin or epoxy glue (or cast in molds with polyester resin) or just under several layers of gloss polyurethane… other things will work too but may be more scratchable so give a final coat of polyuethane. There are various ways to “transfer” images too from transfer or other special papers or to
