Once your charms have been drawn and cut, you can then color them in or simply ready them for the oven. This setting allows you to use either a fine-point blade or knife blade (B clamp). Make sure you have the appropriate pen loaded into your A clamp, and the blade loaded into your B clamp before beginning.įor Shrinky Dink material, I select the Light Chipboard setting as the base material and increase the pressure setting to MORE before starting.
Using a StrongGrip Mat, load the Shrinky Dink paper into the machine. Now, we’re ready to make our project with Cricut Maker.REMEMBER TO MIRROR, especially if you are adding text!.Select all of your layers (this includes the base shape that now has a hole punch and any draw images you’ve added) and “ ATTACH” them together.I chose a small mouse (image #M43AAB) for Ted.Select both the base shape and the small circle to “ SLICE” the two images and create the hole punch cut out.Add a small circle to your base charm shape to represent the hole punch you’ll need for attaching a jump ring later.Make your base shape ~3x bigger than the size you want the finished charm to be because Shrinky Dink material… shrinks.I chose a heart, but you could easily change this to a star, circle, square, or triangle. You can customize my community project here. Jump rings and pliers (for jewelry making)įirst, create your Shrinky Dink charms in Design Space®.Well, let’s get started! Engraving custom charms and dog tags
#CUSTOM DOG TAGS HOW TO#
I’ll walk you through how to engrave dog tags and create adorable Shrinky Dink charms with Cricut Maker. This little furball brings me almost as much joy as whipping out my Cricut Maker®! So, I jumped at the chance to combine these two loves together and create matching charms for Ted and myself. So, the nickname my husband and I have given him is petite souris (or “little mouse” in French), because we’re classy like that. He attends all of my virtual meetings while we have been working from home at Cricut® and has become known as “The Intern.” He is half cat and loves nothing more than chewing on a toy shaped like a mouse. Ted is a Chihuahua/Terrier mix that weighs a whopping 8 pounds and just turned 9-years old. Hello, my name is Claire and I am obsessed with my dog Ted.
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