On one of the Art Groups I joined, some of us have been playing around with Shrink Plastic and experimenting under the guidance of one of our talented members. I hate waste and have often tried making use of the tiniest bits of shrink plastic for mosaics, etc. Well here are 3 ATCs I made during the week as a result of mucking about!!
I ran the black shrink plastic through the Cuttlebug folder, coloured the raised surface with metallic rubons and then heated it. I had a bit of some foil tape stuck to the end of the paintbrush I was using and that melted too! Just one of those things! I like working with twisted wire and used that to attach the mini-sculpture to the ATC. I thought it’d look really good to run the ATC through the same folder and use matching colours… cool, non?!!
I really like this one with the beads – fiddly, but it’s a great piece of ‘waste’ isn’t it?!
If you click on this last one, you can see it in more detail! I think it’s wonderful the way the most uninspiring scraps can be transformed into something very soulful and satisfying. I do believe I’m in self-imposed therapy! 🙂
Altered Art & Stuff... 
Sarah
/ October 11, 2008oh these look great Rosie!
I am going to have to try that – I never thought of embossing shrink, I didn’t think it would hae enough “give”
Rosie
/ October 11, 2008They do make the most amazing crunchy noise as you crush them Sarah!! 😉
pauline
/ October 11, 2008great idea -I will try again.I will emboss some with my wiz.I am going to buy shrinky later as I ran out
Carol
/ October 11, 2008Love your creativity & resourcefulness!!!
volz
/ October 11, 2008I am an art teacher and I just purchased soem shrink art to use with my students. I am not familiar with the cuttlebug folder and metalic rubons are these items you may use for scrapbooking? Is the cuttlebug folder like a crimper ?
Melissa
/ October 12, 2008These look great! Thanks for sharing, I will have to go and try it.
Barbara Hagerty
/ October 14, 2008OK, now you’re going to have to email me and explain how you did this with the cuttlebug! These are way too fabulous!!!! And I have tons of questions, because I want to do this, too, but you need to give me a push start, OK?? Can you tell how much I LOVE these?????
Adrienne Goodenough
/ October 19, 2008Love the way the shrink plastic turned out. I’d never have thought of doing that to shrink plastic!