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Engraved and Illuminated Plastic Ball Ornaments
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TheKimSixFix
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I have a ton of these inexpensive shatterproof plastic ball ornaments and I wanted to dress them up a little bit.
I decided to get out my engraving tool (a Dremel) and see what would happen. The results were so pretty! I only took off the top layer of color and the white plastic would show through.
But what was even more beautiful was what happened when i added the balls to a strand of christmas tree lights.
The engraving would glow. It looked so cool. I created a video tutorial (embedded in the blog post) so you can see how I settled on a design and the type of engraving tips I used if you are interested in duplicating these!
Here is the full post: http://www.thekimsixfix.com/2014/09/engraved-and-illuminated-ornaments.html
I decided to get out my engraving tool (a Dremel) and see what would happen. The results were so pretty! I only took off the top layer of color and the white plastic would show through.
But what was even more beautiful was what happened when i added the balls to a strand of christmas tree lights.
The engraving would glow. It looked so cool. I created a video tutorial (embedded in the blog post) so you can see how I settled on a design and the type of engraving tips I used if you are interested in duplicating these!
Here is the full post: http://www.thekimsixfix.com/2014/09/engraved-and-illuminated-ornaments.html
Cheap plastic ball ornaments are what you start with. (Just make sure the plastic underneath is white)
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Published November 25th, 2014 7:41 PM
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