xxx Shrink Plastic Valentine xxx

I'm Back! I had a slight problem with my mojo for a few days, but I've been going through all my old craft magazines and now have quite a long list of techniques that I'm itching to have a go at.  Yay!

Today I had a go (although not for the first time) at Shrink Plastic on this Valentine creation:

The heart shape on the shrink plastic was made with a stamp and has a rough thick black outline so I kept  that as my theme.  After matting and layering the shrink plastic I added the other details freehand with a Sharpie (apart from the ribbon, which is made of chiffon material and came from Ikea).  The rough lines are of course, deliberate! ;-)

I actually made two pieces of Shrink Plastic:

Amazing how the heart looks almost golden in daylight, whereas it looks red at nightime. 

This was the swirly one against today's blue sky:

(Shame its still so cold, despite the blue sky.  Roll on Spring!)

I will be using this piece of shrink plastic on another creation.

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Finally today, I thought I'd show you this recent purchase from the sales:

 A waterproof notebook!

(Hawkin's Bazaar £4)  Whatever next!

Thanks for looking and for any comments,

qwiksave

Shrink Plastic and UTEE

I challenged my comfort zone today and had a go at another something new.  I say 'something new' it was another technique from that 'very old' (year 2000) book written by Suze Weinberg.  You may remember a short while back I tried the spritzing the metallic pen technique, which didn't work terribly well...but moving swiftly on!

Today's technique was using UTTE onto Shrink Plastic and stamping:

I 'challenged' myself because I've always been a bit nervous of Shrink Plastic - it shrivels up and threatens not to unbend itself when its shrinks.  It did do that today but I was very brave and let it do its own thing, before flattening it with an acrylic block! 

This technique was slightly different to the normal shrink plasticing - in that you stamp your image after it has shrunk, so your stamped image stays the same size.

...and BEFORE you shrink the plastic, you ink it up with your ink pad (not Pigment Ink), and cover it with UTEE.  Then you heat it and then you stamp it.  Leave the stamp on the plastic to cool.

I used a dye multi-coloured metallic ink pad to ink the plastic sheet but the colours haven't shown up as much as I'd like.  I would be tempted to add more colours now, maybe with alcoholic inks or rub-on metallic paste.

My two boys go back to school tomorrow and the weather forecast is for SNOW in our area!  Shock horror!  We were sunbathing yesterday!

qwiksave

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