Itty-bitty fairies

[illustrae.livejournal.com]

I love working with Shrink plastic (shrinky-dinks type stuff). I love watching it shrivel and shrink under heat, and I'm always amazed at the level of detail retained after the process.
I'd seen larger versions of these little guys at a rubber stamp show, and I thought they would be perfect for shrink plastic. I stamped and cut out the doll parts, stamped random patterns on them and colored them in. The wings were a seperate stamp and followed the same principle. When the plastic was still un-shrunk, I punched holes where the hinges needed to go and then stuck them in the oven to shrink (takes about 2 minutes in a toaster oven). Creating the wire hinges out of one piece of wire took a lot of trial and error, but I finally arrived at a pair of completed fairies.



Here's an example of exactly how tiny these little guys are.



And here's what the wirework in the back of them looks like.