I’m loving these feather pendants I made the other day….five in all in a variety of shades. I used two to make this plastic feather pendant necklace:
I made the feathers using a 3D printing pen. As a Michaels Maker, I had a chance to try out the new 3Doodler 2.0 3D Printing Pen and this was the project I came up with:
Here’s the 3D printing pen called the 3Doodler:
It was pretty easy to work. Boo actually read the directions and figured it out first, plugging it in was the first step. Second step: feeding these plastic rods down into the pen. The rods melt, and come out whatever shaped-metal tip you use:
I knew I wanted to make something practical that would get some use: feather pendant necklace was the first thing to come to mind because I have a metal feather necklace I wear a lot, and I actually lost it for about a month before it showed back up again. So why not have some backup jewelry in the same style? To start I drew a feather and then replicated it into multiples onto a piece of tracing paper:
Using a gray colored plastic rod I began to trace and draw parts of the feather directly onto the tracing paper:
I worked on several feathers at the same time:
Switching between different color rods:
I kept layering colors of plastic until I had the below effect. The plastic peels right off the tracing paper when cool:
Blue, clear, black, gray and white feathers:
I attached two feathers for a pendant using a rustic lobster clasp also from Michaels:
A finished plastic feather pendant:
Cool right?
I’d be wearing it but Boo stole it for her own wardrobe.
A little bit more info about the 3Doodler:
- The 3Doodler 2.0 is THE must-have 3D printing pen that is an easy to use (and fun!) tool for crafters, artists and even designers!
- The slim, light-weight pen draws dimensional figures and structures and is much more affordable than a 3Dprinter – you have to check it out!
- You can purchase the pen directly from Michaels.com– and if you need some additional project ideas check out this awesome video.
{Giveaway is over. Winner is #62. But please feel free to leave a comment below still listing your favorite book!}
That is so cool! Love the feather pendant.
My favorite book is East of Eden.
My favorite book – A Prayer for Owen Meany
This is soooo cool and the possibilities are endless! My favorite
Book is The Bible!
Such a fun idea!
I couldn’t possibly pick one but since I have to, I’ll go with The Catcher in the Rye.
My favorite books is – Where The Heart Is
I love this! My favorite book is The Great Gatsby!
SO fabulous! I love how easy these look. The ideas are flowing…
…and my favorite book? James in the House of Aunt Prudence – because I used to love reading it with my daughter.
That looks like fun! I have reread Stepping Heavenward (Elisabeth Prentiss) every year or two since high school.
I just read ” Have a little faith”
Those are so awesome! My favorite book is The Giver. I refuse to see the movie they made out of it for fear they will have ruined the story.
The Alexandria Quartet is my favorite book. I’ve gone through several copies because they are handled so much they fall apart.
The book I’m always drawn to (and can pick up and read from any spot) has to be Little Women.
“Daisy Fae and the Miracle Man” is my favorite book.
I love to read and have a ton of favorites but I love to read “Annabelle Swift, Kindergartner” to my kids!
It used to be Walden by Thoreau, but i just read All The Light We Cannot See by Doer and really loved it: not sure if it’ll pass up my oldie, but it was amazing
All the Light We Cannot See was Amazing, loved it.
My favorite right now is
“The Story Sisters” – Alice Hoffman
Love the feathers! 🙂 My favorite book is Little Women.
How fun does this look!!! My favorite book is anything by John Sanford.
This is so cool! I heard about the 3doodler in a small business class I took in college a couple years ago, but it wasn’t on the market yet then. I’m glad to see I can get one at Michael’s now!
Hard to pick just one book, but my favorite is “Cold Sassy Tree”.
Loved Cold Sassy Tree!
This is so awesome!!! My favorite book is Life of Pi!
I have to choose one book? Anne of Green Gables.
Super cool! This would be so fun to do! My fav book is Unbroken!
Really cool! My favorite book is anything by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
This is so cool! I’d have to go with A Prayer for Owen Meany or the Prophet!
I was gonna tell you on FB that I heart the feathers so much that I want one (ahem, please send me one ;). Then I saw your contest and figured “why not post here? Finley would love one!!” OK, favorite book…the Fountainhead. xoxo
I have to try that. My favorite book is The Shipping News.
I had no idea that a 3-D pen was even a thing!
My books are my babies; I couldn’t possibly pick a favorite. 😉
My very favorite book of all time is “to kill a mocking bird” I had an older brother growing up and we were best buddies. Totally reminds me of jem and scout. Right before my grandpa died he game me a copy of the book so it makes it even more special!
This is so cool. I can’t believe that a 3D pen even exists! Some of my favorite books are the Mrs. Pollifax series by Dorthy Gilman
The Outlander series. Anything by Alison Weir. Anne of Green Gables. Chalet School. Waiting for Birdy. The Time Traveler’s Wife. Elizabeth George mysteries. Poldark. Beany Malone. To name a few. 🙂
My favorite book is the Bible. I read lots of books, but this is my favorite 🙂
My favorite is Harry Potter, which technically counts as 7 favorites. Also, my grandma bought me Shel Silverstein’s books when I was little, so those are special to me too.
I’d love to start journaling with you, but the fear of not keeping up with it holds me back. Isn’t that silly?!
Amazing pen! Those feathers are great. I love this thread, so many books I haven’t read. A favorite book is hard to pick. The Alchemist by Paulo Cohelo. I’ve read it so many times.
i have been looking at these 3D pens. i love how you two used it. i have enjoyed many books, but one that stands the test of time with me and i will never forget is beautiful joe. the story of a dog, that captured my heart as a child and i will never forget it.
I’m a librarian and It is much too hard to pick a favorite book! I would say the Harry Potter series but The secret history of the pink carnation series is also up there as my favorites. Strongly advise checking those out!
My twin daughters are Seniors, this looks like something they would love! Thanks for introducing us to this! My favorite book is “Secrets of the Vine” & “Seriously…I’m Kidding”,
Just read bread and wine and loved it!
My favorite book is a children’s book called The Lemon Sisters. It had reminded me of my sisters.
I loved your inspiring ideas! one of my favorite books is “A New Earh”, br Eckart Tolle.
Cool tool! My fave is “the Absoluely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” by Sherman Alexie.
Cool giveaway. Favorite book of all time is Outlander by Diana Gabaldon.
It’s so hard to pick a favorite book. I always come back to Robin McKinley books, though. Spindles End, or Chalice. I love your feathers!
I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to have this pen. It looks awesome. All the 3D printing gadgets that are coming out blow my mind!
The Wind and the Willows is my favorite!
Love this tool! Favorite book are the curious George series since my kids love them.
I’ve wanted one of these ever since I first saw the original video. I’m in the middle of building a 3D printer, but this pen would make much more sense for things that need to be small or delicate like your feathers.
My favourite books are the Discworld Series by Sir Terry Pratchett.
The Great Gatsby.
Is It lame to say the Skippy John Jones books are my favorite?! Maybe, but I love love love them! So cute and fun to read to the kiddos.
I have been wanting one of these pens since I first heard about them, although I have not a single artistic bone in my body. Gone WIth the Wind is my all time favorite book. I have read it 3 times.
Great idea – my favorite book is the first book I read in my Grandmothers bookcase “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” I think it’s right up there on my list ahead of “To Kill a Mockingbrid” . Too many books so little time.
This Looks very cool. Always like to try new crafts. Thanks for the give away.
wow what fun this sounds like. AND would seem to tap into all sorts of creativity and age groups.
after the Bible the Father Tim Mitford Tales great reading.
Love this! You give such great instructions with pictures! Right now, my favorite book is The Gift of Passage; What the Dying Tell Us With the Gifts They Leave Behind by Amy Hollingsworth
I loved CrossRoads by William Paul Young author of The Shack, and The Noticer by Andy Andrews.Okay I know it was suppose to be only one, but I couldn’t help myself. Love the 3d tool, would love to use it.
I love your leaves. You always think of the most unusual items to make. I’ve read so many books but I guess my favorite is the one I’ve written as yet unpublished. 🙂 Also God is for Real.
I read The Thornbirds many years ago and have reread it several times, so it gets my vote as my favorite book.
My favorite is The Secret Garden
I love books, one of my all time favorites is The Gift of Asher Lev.
The “shine Baby by Gretchen Hargis
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. I have re-read this book many many times. My copy is ripped, water damaged, bent and cried on. Gone With the Wind is a very close 2nd.
It is so hard to choose a favorite book…but I would have to say Jane a Eyre by Charlotte Bronte.
So neat!! I know you said book, singular, but I’m going to break the rules. Every time I think of favorite book I go back to the Millenium series, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and its trilogy. I just loved them so much and was so depressed finishing the last one knowing there would never be another. Hm, maybe that’s why.
Very interesting and intriguing. My favorite book is my mothers copy of “Anne of Green Gables” from the 1920s.
I love to kill a mockingbird. But I also love cry the beloved country. Thanks for the chance at winning!
My favorite book of time is A Wrinkle In Time. Oh the things I cold do with this pen
This is fantastic! It’s so very hard to pick a favorite book, but I really enjoyed the whole Outlander series.
I have to get one of these, in case I don’t win. LOL. I read 2-4 books a week, so last one read is until I am into second chapter of the new book. If I had to reread a book it would probably be James Harriot series All Creatures Great And Small, or Nancy Drew books, or….. You are asking us to pick our favorite friend.
Hmm.. Recently might favorite is quite possibly “The Book With No Pictures” by B.J. Novak. I love reading it to my daughter and hearing her read it. She giggles like crazy! It’s the best!
My favorite book is the Code Complete.
Wow, that pen looks really awesome, this is the first time I heard of it.
That pen looks like fun! The Wind in the Willows with A Prayer for Owen Meany in a close second.
My daughter was JUST telling me about these pens! Favorite book is Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich.
Nem tive a coragem de ver o preço da caneta mas mesmo assim vai ajudar na criatividade dos artesãos. Você como sempre mostrando as ultimas novidades em arte, parabéns.
I wonder if alcohol ink would work? LQQK GREAT
Jerry
Those are awesome 🙂 ! My favorite book is the brethren by John Grisham .. A friend gave it to me for a book report and boy it got me hooked on John Grisham novels !
Cool! My favorite which I’m revisiting with my girls is Anne of Green Gables 🙂
Those are gorgeous! My favorite book is “what I saw and how I lied” by Judy Blundell. There’s so much symbolism and it just gets better every time I read it!
so cool! favorite book? -my Bible! then anything Jan Karon & Anne Morrow Lindberg’s “gift from the sea” thank you! cheryl
Such a fun project! My favorite book of all time—children’s book would be Charlotte’s Web and adult book—The Notebook. I’m a sucker for a story that shows compassion and love for one another.
LOVE the feathers! And the 3Doodler looks like it could inspire great creative projects! Lots of favorite books: To Kill a Mockingbird, Pride and Prejudice…I’ll just stop there.
The Hiding Place. I’ve read it about 15 times. 🙂 These feathers are so cool! Love your creativity!
I read so many books that choosing one is very hard. But I love the Harry Potter books and how they have gotten so many people and kids reading again!
Awesome use of the 3D pen!
Based on Most Read: My Favorite book is the Bible.
Based on pure enjoyment factor; Almost anything by Ted Dekker.
That would be so much fun to have…I have so many ideas already! Your pendants look great. I have so many favorite books I can’t even list them all, but one of them is Jane Eyre.
My favorite book is also my first book, Pippi Longstocking
The Lovely Bones. Tragic story, beautifully written. I will not watch the mivie because I’m scared it would ruin the book.
Too fun! My favorite book is hard to choose but one of the most interesting was One Thousand White Women. Makes you wonder could it have happened…
Love those feathers!! My favorite book is The Witch of Blackbird Pond
These are lovely. I work at a bookstore and two books I always recommend are Good Omens and Under the Banner of Heaven.
Love the feathers! Gone With the Wind. Love it.
I’ve been looking at 3D pens for a few months. Your review was great and very helpful! Favorite book – Jane Eyre
These feathers look great! My favorite book at the moment is “Life As We Knew It” by Susan Beth Pfeffer.
Favorite book would have to be the harry potter series, so that is technically 7 books, haha.
Love this project! Everything I need to know I learned in Kindergarten is that one book that always makes me feel good.
the Notebook could read it every year!
This is too cool! I need to buy one for my daughter! My favorite book is To Kill a Mockingbird and of course I preordered the sequel!
I can’t wait to get ahold of one of these! The feathers are so cute and I can see myself making plenty of items for my halloween decor!! My favorite books: “How to Kill a Mockingbird” and “The Diary of Anne Frank”. History and insight are very important and I believe these show everyone how life was and could be if we try to erase history and forget how struggles truly are when everyone doesn’t work as one.
I was not aware there were 3D pens out! Cool! Thanks for the tutorial and for the chance!
My favorite book is To Kill a Mocking Bird. I named one of my pet rats after Dill.
I read “Jane Eyer” the first time when I was in 9th grade and have read it so many times since, I’ve lost count. I thought you might appreciate this quote… “Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.”
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh has been my favorite since being assigned to read it in the sixth grade.
The Count of Monte Cristo
I love the book Einsteins Dreams by Alan Lightman. Great book. Thought provoking, quick, easy chapters.
Your feather is beautiful!! I love love love it!!! Favorite book? Les Miserables by Victor Hugo