Pineapple Palooza

Today on the Punch Place Blog it's, pineapple palooza!

I love pineapples and who couldn't when they look this cute?

Punch Place Plus carries these cuties in three different sizes, 3", 2" and 1.5". And you can make just about anything with them from, key chains, earrings, charms for a bracelet and they don't have to look like your typical pineapple (green and yellow).

To make these you're going to need (depending on what you're making):
Pineapples
Double J Earwires (in gold or silver)
Hardware
Bracelets/Necklaces
Vinyl
Transfer Tape

I am going to show you some tips today because I have previously showed you how to apply vinyl onto the blank acrylics from Punch Place Plus in previous posts.

Some of the cuts on these are very intricate and during the weeding process you could potentially lose a lot of those little pieces and ultimately want to start over well today I am going to show you how you can keep those little pieces and your sanity!

You're going to cut your design as usual but instead of weeding it before placing it onto the transfer tape, you're going to place it on your transfer tape first. Once you have the whole piece on your transfer tape, stick it onto your cutting mat.

This is going to hold it steady while you keep the good parts and weed out the bad!

 I start by grabbing a corner and slowly pulling the vinyl up (you need to do this very slowly because the top part is sticky and could stick on your design-I also keep a pair of scissors near by to help keep the weeded parts away from my design).

Here is the weeded piece.

And our design.

You can now take your blank acrylic and add your vinyl. (Tip: If you're going to place the blank on top of the vinyl so you can line it up, flip your image so it cuts the right way.)

In the top photo, I simply added a monogram, cut it out of the vinyl, added it to the acrylic. For the middle one, I cut out another monogram from the vinyl but also cut a solid black piece so it would add some dimension to the pineapple (that is the one you would have to flip so it will line up with the acrylic!) and the one on the right I did as a normal well not normal oh so cute pineapple!

I made this cute adjustable bangle for myself and I LOVE it!

Now don't you have some adorable pineapples?!

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Ring It In...

With all of this jewelry you've been making, it's time to ring it in (not in a bad way)!

Punch Place Plus sells these amazing little ceramic ring dishes that would be perfect for holding all of your precious jewels!

I have seen these cute little dishes all over the internet. For purchase along with tons of DIY ideas on how to decorate them yourself from painting, adding animals, initials, dates, patterns and so much more!

For my ceramic ring dishes I decided to add a little something to help with holding all of my treasured jewels.

To make these ring dishes you'll need:
Ceramic Ring Dishes
Plastic Animal/Toy etc
Paint
Paint Brush
E6000

I first started off by washing my dishes and my plastic items to prepare them for paint. Once they were dried (you want to make sure the plastic piece you use is completely dry), I started painting. Making sure I got into the cracks and crevices of all the tiny parts of my plastic figurine.

You want to let them dry for a few minutes in between coats. If you don't it seems like you're just pushing the paint around and making a huge mess.

It doesn't look like I have painted him but I did.

Here is what it looked like before painting and after.

I decided to paint one gold and one silver.

Once the paint dries (the bottle of paint said 24 hours), I let them dry for 24 hours.

You can apply a little E6000 to the underside of the plastic toy (I don't know what happened to the picture?).
When I say a little, I seriously mean a little, you do NOT want it oozing out onto your ceramic ring dish;)
Place your plastic toy on the ceramic ring dish, and press it really good. Once it's where you want it, let the E6000 dry for 24 hours and you're all finished!

Don't they look awesome, expensive?!

Make sure and come back on Monday for something NEW to Punch Place Plus!!
Hint: It's in one of the pictures;)