![]() ![]() Being neat is not important, as you will cut out the image and shrinking concentrates the colour. You can then use any colouring materials you like – we are using food old colouring pencils in our tutorial! It’s best to use fairly light shades of pencils, as any colour you use will darken when you shrink the image. However, all you need is a little grade 0 glass paper or fine sandpaper which lets you gently roughen the surface of the shrink plastic sheet. This works fine if you are a paper crafter who can stamp with archival inks, or you have a great selection of permanent coloured pens, but your average crafter does not. One challenge of using shrink plastic is that the shrink plastic sheets are often crystal clear. Adding colour allows you to test out techniques with everything from gel, glitter and felt pens, to alcohol markers, coloured pencils and even wax crayons. On top of creating perfect personalised embellishments, you’ll also discover that the mysterious shrinking process provokes childlike delight every time, whilst producing elegant and sophisticated results! There are lots of ways to shape and add designs to shrink plastic, including die-cutting, hand-drawing and stamping. If you get a sheet without any texture, you can either rough it with sandpaper to let you colour with pencils, or use permanent markers to apply colour to the clear, smooth surface. The colour intensifies as the plastic shrinks, so keep that in mind and apply colour lightly as it will get more concentrated after shrinking. The plain sheets of thin plastic really keep their magical qualities well hidden! If you buy pre-prepared shrink plastic sheets to use for making shrinky dinks, you get one side that is rougher than other, so perfect for colouring on – you can use colouring pencils or felt tip pens for these. Shrink plastic is one of those materials that really benefits from some fun experimentation. What is that makes shrinky dinks such a good toy? It’s because shrink plastic is so fun to use and almost magical in the way it transforms. You can still buy Shrinky Dinks the brand, but the name now commonly refers to the miniature shrunken shapes you get after heating and shrinking plastic rather than these specific printed sheets themselves. Shrinky Dinks the brand was big in the 80s, when kids could colour in these line art drawing, pre-printed on special thin plastic sheets which, when heated would shrink right down to become thicker and more rigid. Shrinky Dinks are now shrink plastic (shrinky dinks without the caps for the brand name), in the same way that you can call any vacuum cleaner a hoover. Ready to use! Keep in mind that the colors become darker as they condense and become smaller.Shrinky Dinks are a brand of printable plastic craft toys that have become synonymous with shrink plastic. When cool (it doesn’t take very long to cool) add lobster clasps and jump rings. You will need to wait until they lay flat! They will become 1/3 of their original size. ![]() You will need to watch them and take them out when they are flat. Video below is just a snippet. Punch a hole on top of each skein and put them on a parchment lined baking sheet.īake at 325 degrees for 1-3 minutes. You can fit several on one sheet! When you are done, cut them out. Trace yarn skein with black sharpie on SMOOTH side of the shrinky dink plastic sheet.įlip over and color in on ROUGH side of the shrinky dink sheet. Remember all the fun you can have with Shrinky Dinks!? Draw or trace an image on the plastic sheet then color, bake, and shrink! Make charms, keychains, ornaments, jewelry, toys or STITCH MARKERS!! I made shrinky dink yarn skeins using sharpie markers and even put my most used hook sizes on a few of them so if I put down my crochet project for awhile, I will always know which hook to use when I do get around to picking it back up! ![]()
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