When we were given our box of stamps and supplies to create samples for Door County Rubber Stamps, one of the things we were asked to do was to make something using the stamps that wasn't a card.
That had me stumped for quite awhile. I am a card maker...sometimes a scrapper...mostly cards tho. My itty bitty brain doesn't tend to bend around "outside the box" ideas.
One day while browsing around the craft area of our local WalMart, I happened to be scouting out the kids section. I spied a package containing two charm bracelets. Just the bracelets and the metal sliders to attach charms on.
That gave me the notion to make charms using shrink plastic.
I stamped the images with black StazOn and colored them with Prisma pencils. To shrink them, I tried my new toaster oven instead of my heat gun.
I tried a single charm first, just to see how the oven would work. I laid the plastic on parchment paper, and covered it with a sheet of vellum. It shrunk quickly and the vellum overlay kept it from rolling onto itself and sticking.
Then, I made a mistake. I put all five of the remaining pieces into the oven at the same time. The vellum wasn't heavy enough to control that many curling pieces at once. When they started to curl, the vellum lifted and two of the pieces curled and stuck to themselves.
I was able to reheat and straighten one of them, but the other has a permanently upturned corner.
The pieces also wanted to stick to the vellum. Next time I try this, if I'm cooking several pieces, I'm going to use a double layer of parchment paper over the top. The pieces didn't want to stick to the parchment they were laid on, so it shouldn't stick on the top either. Two layers ought to give a bit more weight and prevent stuck curls.
Date: Thursday, March 25, 2010 GMT Views: 424
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