Vintage-style icicle ornaments

[armchairairshow]

These Nintendo vintage-style icicle ornaments were created using beads from mercury glass garland from the 30's and 40s, shrink plastic, jewelry findings and assorted black glass beads in the shape of flowers and hearts. The shrink-plastic sprites were then covered with a thin sheen of tiny reflective glass microbeads, popular for christmas ornaments in the 1950s. I made these ornaments for a friend's housewarming party.



Left to right:
Red Slime from Dragon Warrior 1, Link from The Legend of Zelda, ShyGuy from Super Mario Bros 2, a Metroid, from Metroid. Bubblebat from Megaman, and finally a Goomba from Super Mario Brothers.

This week's adventure? A set made solely out of NES ice-themed sprites. Flurry from SMB 2, the icicle from mario bros, various characters from ice climbers...

[Autumn]

These really do look vintage. How festive! I really enjoy that you did these in this icicle style, as opposed to having the sprites at the bottom of the wire. It's a classy look with the beads underneath.

Are the sprites themselves paper cutouts that have been shrink-wrapped? It's hard to tell from here.

[YeahYeahYouWere]

These look really nice! I agree with autumn that the beads underneath look great.

When you say shrink plastic, I assume you mean shrinky-dinks, right? I haven't done those in forever, but now I want to!

[johloh]

those are awesome. I need to work on sprucing our tree up a bit this year...

[armchairairshow]

Thanks guys!

Autumn, I basically took blank shrinky dinks (some generic brand, I think, which is why I referred to it as shrink plastic, YeahYeahYouWere ), laid it over some graph paper and colored in the sprites a block at a time with prismacolors.

Then coated them in glue and dipped them in clear microbeads: http://www.createforless.com/Martha+Ste ... medium=cse


Some of the snow-based ones are almost done, so I will be posting them soon!