DIY Winnie the Pooh Keychains

Making your own do-it-yourself Winnie the Pooh hard plastic key chain charm is a great project that parents and their kids can do together. When finished, you’ll have a rigid, transparent, waterproof plastic charm of Pooh that you can use as a key chain, Christmas ornament, as a part of a hanging mobile, luggage tag, necklace or earring pendants or anything else your imagination can dream up.

Here’s what you’ll need:

A large piece of clear #6 plastic (polystyrene)
Fine tip permanent marker (black)
Color permanent markers (Yellow and red for Pooh Bear)
Scissors
Tape
Use of the kitchen oven and an oven mitt
Sheet of aluminum foil
Drill
Keychain or string

First obtain a large piece of clear #6 plastic (polystyrene). This is easily identified by looking for the recycling symbol. A #6 in the triangle means you’re good to go. The clear lids for to-go food trays are usually made of #6 plastic. Next find a photo of Winnie the Pooh to use off of the internet. Download a suitable photo and print it out on your printer on normal paper. Note that the final product will shrink approximately three to four times smaller than your starting image, so keep this in mind.

Cut the #6 plastic so that you have a flat sheet slightly larger than the image. Tape the image to the plastic sheet. Using the fine tip black permanent marker, trace the outline of Pooh, as well as all his features - eyes, nose, eyebrows, mouth, shirt, etc. Fill in his dark features like eyes and nose. Once he’s been traced, use the yellow marker to fill in his fur and the red marker to fill in his shirt. Next remove the tape from the paper image and cut the plastic into the shape you want (rectangle, oval, etc.)

Move the oven rack all the way down to the bottom. Place the aluminum foil on the rack.
Heat the oven to 350 degrees. When the oven is ready, place the plastic image on the foil sheet using the oven mitt and close the door.

For the first minute or so, your art will start to curl up and shrink. It’s fun to watch! Then soon after it should start to flatten out. After about three and a half minutes, your image should be done. Using the oven mitt, carefully remove the aluminum foil tray from the oven.

Your plastic charm is still hot and will remain shapeable for another ten seconds or so before it cools. If it’s not entirely flat, you can smoothed out by placing a large, flat object like a book on it. Or if you’d like, you can bend and shape your art. But work quickly before it cools.

After the charm has cooled, drill a small hole in the top for the chain. Attach the chain and you’re done. You’ve just created your very own Winnie the Pooh hard plastic keychain charm! These make great gifts for the Winnie the Pooh enthusiast and can even be used as baby shower party favors.





Criss White is a professional writer that enjoys Winnie the Pooh baby shower parties. Pooh lovers can also learn more about Winnie the Pooh history by visiting the Entertainment section of Dinosauric content sharing site.

Creating Baptism Invitations is Cheap, Fast, and Easy

A baptism nowadays can set you hundreds to even thousands of dollars back as you need to purchase everything – from the invitations, to the decorations, food, and the baptism favors. However, while you will still be purchasing the raw materials, you need not purchase your baptism invitations from suppliers as you can make them on your own. Making them is cheap as the basic supplies are just simple paper products. You need not pre-order anything, and what’s best is you can make them as personalized as you want them to be. Here are the quick and easy steps to making your own baptism invitations.

First of all, find a good baptism invitation template. There are a lot available online or you can load up Microsoft Publisher for templates. You can still further personalize and customize these templates as you’ll find out later. Set it on a blue background if you are celebrating the baptism of a baby boy or use pink if it’s your cute little girl. If you want to play with the colors, other trendy colors include orange, yellow, and light green.

Next, personalize the template by putting in your own wordings, a photo of the baby, or placing images that are either fun or religious. Do not put too many photos though as you will still be needing white space to put in the wordings. For the wordings, keep it to a minimum as well so the invitation will not look too crowded with so many images and too much text. You can use just one side of the invitation as putting text and images on either two or all four sides of the invitation will indeed make it look very busy.

Use a fun and childish font, or you can have a formal font to show the solemnity of the occasion. When printing, especially if you are printing more than 50 pieces, check your cartridge regularly so that even up to the last piece, you have good quality and readable print. Buy envelopes that will fit your invitation perfectly. You can put stickers on them, print images on them, or just buy pre-printed envelopes.

Most importantly, have fun making these and consider this not just a hobby or any other task but rather, an accomplishment in terms of savings and in making your child’s baptism truly special with your hands-on approach.

Home-Made Wedding Invitations – An Uncommon Idea

Nowadays, when you are footing the bill for a wedding, costs rapidly escalate, and it feels like the world is out to drain your wallet for more dollars. Wedding invitations are no exception; you’d be shocked how much some card printers will charge you for them.

The trouble with invitations is their individual design requirements and they need to be replicated a lot of times, that’s why it turns into a lot of money. Making them at home could save you lots, especially if you think outside of the box. And even if your pocketbook allows any expense, the do-it-yourself option will allow you countless options for your design.

Select Your Material
This is typically the initial and most critical step, because it will influence your theme and how you will envision the end product. You and your spouse can select the color, the intensity, the feel, the weight… options are endless. The easiest is to pick your material at the printing store you have in mind. If you and your spouse want to put the cards together yourself, visit an art supply place to pick out your paper.

Software – It’s All Available
Before you go out looking for specialized DYI software kits, you probably want to look at software you already own; the typical computer is offered ready with plenty of tools to make almost anything. Microsoft Word and Microsoft Powerpoint are helpful tools to layout pictures and text, which is absolutely sufficient. With regards to layout options and graphic art, those are unlimited online. There are options to even download unique fonts customized for your desired look.

Use Pictures
A popular way of personalizing your invitations is to put photographs of the happy couple into it. Many online companies like Mpix.com give you an opportunity to buy prints of any picture in an array of sizes and borders, which you can choose to make the whole invitation or make a small part in it. If any photos need a touch-up, try using Photoshop. You can also find excellent free options like Picasa or Gimp to name just two. With such programs, you can easily make your picture black and white, play with the exposure, or remove red-eye for example. A pretty picture pretty much ensures that your guests will display the wedding invite as a souvenir.

Original Packages
Creating your own invitation can be a perfect occasion to think outside of the box; the only thing required of your invitation is that it must be able to fit into an envelope. Examples of what you can do include canvas or parchment scrolls, notes in a bottle (both of which can be challenging to ship), origami-type folded invites in one piece, so any inserts don’t get lost, ransom notes, etc… More daring alternatives are scary because you can’t always be sure how people will react to it, but they will stand out as different.

Designing your own invitations is a fairly ambitious project. It is of course not for all brides and grooms, given the time, creativity and skills it may require. But once you opt to try it anyway, it will be a labor of love, and it is a great way to get in wedding mood early, so you can savor the anticipation.

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Criss White is a professional author on lots of information, including baby showers, bridal showers, and family topics. For more useful articles and wedding invitation ideas, visit Wedding Ideas Etc.