How to Personalize Rubber Bracelets

Rubber bracelets are displayed on store counters with cute sayings, such as "My BFF," others read various names, and some just have fancy designs. Making a rubber bracelet can be as simple as putting a large rubber band on your wrist or cutting and gluing together a piece of bicycle inner tube. You can also personalize store bought or home made bracelets, by adding a name or gluing on some studs.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

1. Use a permanent marker with an extra fine point for personalizing your rubber bracelet. These markers come in a variety of colors and can be used to write names or anything else you might want to decorate your bracelet.

2. Write letters or decorations on your rubber bracelet with a hot glue gun or glitter glue. Both types of glue dry raised, giving your bracelet an embossed appearance.

3. Glue onto your bracelet, with a hot glue gun or super glue, tiny letter beads. Arrange the letters to spell names or other words.

4. Deboss a personal saying into the surface of your bracelet by heat pressing a word with a hot die. Push down into the rubber with the hot die and it will create a depression.

5. Emboss a personal message onto your rubber bracelet by placing a hot die behind a section of the bracelet, and placing the same type of die onto the front of the bracelet. Heat press the two dies together to form a raised design.

Tips & Warnings

• Make sure your rubber bracelet is at least 1/2-inch thick to allow for plenty of personalizing space.
• Don't use a soldering type gun for engraving, as it could catch your rubber bracelet on fire.