Friendly Plastic

Yesterday I mentioned using Friendly Plastic in the metal project and said I would look out any crafty things I had done with it in the past. Well I found some so will show you a variety over the next few days.

Looking back at them, it seems I enjoy the process but am at a bit of a loss what to do with the product. Mind you, does everything have to be useful? Maybe its similar to those mottos that tell you that the travelling is as important as the destination (or more so)?

This is how you buy it, in strips like a plastic ruler. Pay no attention to the price, I bought it SO long ago I doubt it's a helpful reference. It becomes malleable when placed in a bowl of hot water, melted with a heat gun or heated in an old frying pan on a piece of foil.
It can be cut with scissors while cold and hard.

The patterns you see were strips cut while cold, laid over each other then heated till they 'glooped' together. It's VERY hot when heat-gunned so don't touch it with fingers cos it'll stick to you and hurt!

While it's still quite hot you can use small cookie cutters to cut out desired shapes, let it cool and crack them away from the cutter.

They are all very light and durable when cooled but can be reheated if you want to come back to them or join them to another piece of Friendly Plastic afterwards, even after months or years.

More to come another day...