Home Made Pins
Home Made Pins
As I am collecting badges, I decided to try making some pins of my own inspired by the Pins I have in my collection, the Enamel pins- originally I was tempted to try making a Enamel Pin but I found out to make an Enamel pin is going to be tricky because you have to be able to melt metal, (Into a mould) and then heat it a metal basin heater and then get the acrylic paint to paint the moulds in and put the gloss over them but in my case the cost for making the pins in the professional way:
I also found another video on another way of making enamel puns from home but also looked quite complex and time consuming.
I went for plan C and found another video on how I can make pins look just like the enamel pins but using plastic shrink paper in a much more simplistic way and in a way I can make the pins in a digital aesthetic which I much preferred in my comfort zone. Here is the video on how I discovered plan C of making the pins below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUncEqLCUnk How to make plastic pins.
Step by step How to make Homemade Pins
1) Create my images.
2) print my pins out
3) put them on a tray
4) turn oven to 150 degrees
5) put the pins in the oven & let the heat of oven shrink the pins
6) put the mod lodge (Non toxic resin) ontop of the badges.
7) Attach the pins onto the design.
8) Enjoy displaying the pins, making gifts, selling them as to how you wish.
Here is a step by step way of me making the pins, learning from the third video and this is evidence of myself making the pins and showing each stage on the gradual process on the easiest and most convenient way of making Pin badges using other materials, this way of making the pins suited me much better due to the fact I am at my comfort zone on how to make the pins by digitally drawing them on Adobe Illustrator and on Pro Create. Along with the fact it was more price friendly and easier to get hold of the Plastic shrinkable paper and the non toxic resin along with the pins. I made a small amount of pins myself to add to my collection and as a way to educate sustainable ways to manufacture these pins in a less economic way where they're cheaper to manufacture and easier to create.
Photoshoot of my Homemade Pins
I decided to photograph the imagery of the badges in a mini photoshoot with my badge collection as well as to show my developing imagery off further, I decided to go along with these as my first ever badge of homemade Pins I created and wanted to show them off in style.
Here are the photos I took of the Homemade pins below taken at
different perspectives.
Whitened backdrop of Homemade Enamel Pins
Imagery of homemade Pins where I am holding them to show scale as different perspectives compared to my hand in this imagery.
After creating these, I can conclude I thoroughly enjoyed making these pins and I enjoyed learning a new hobby I hope to include these in my website to try and aesthetically please and inspire my target audiences and I want to be able to find interactive ways of engaging my audience whilst educating them and entertaining those who are interested in badges want to learn something new, like how I learnt the fascination of making the pins.
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