Three Different Techniques

Hi All,

Monday has come around again and it's time for a new challenge over at Crafty Cardmakers.

Sharon is our hostess this fortnight and her challenge is to use three of the following techniques on your card or project ...

Embossing (wet or dry)

Distressing

Masking

Making your own flowers

Paper piecing/patchwork

Shrink Plastic

I used embossing, make your own flowers and shrink plastic

Tim Holtz dressform diecut from textured kraft card

Flowers made using a Martha Stewart punch and cardstock inked with various DI's, with a touch of stickles and bling.

Leaf is a Stampin Up diecut

French script stamp is Stampin Up, embossed with gold

Stamped 'Love' onto shrink plastic with Stazon then shrunk with my heatgun

Mounted onto DP and gold miri

Our sponsors for this challenge are

Milk Coffee Digital Stamps with a prize of 5 digis

and

Sir Stampalot who have donated a Stampendous Fran-tage Mica Frantage Kit

I'd also like to enter my card into the following Challenges ...
Artful Times - #29 - Blooming Marvellous
Let's Craft and Create - #69 - One for the Girls

Okay that's me for today, sorry haven't been around much lately, life seems to have taken over again - trips to the garage with squeaky brakes, the optician to replace my son's lost glasses and shopping for new footwear for him as his feet seem to have grown overnight from a size 8 to a 9 1/2! ... blah, blah, blah ... never a dull moment in the life of a housewife! Lol!

Thanks for popping in, hope you're all well.

Take care
Suze xx

Shrink Plastic

Bought a small pack of clear shrink plastic ages ago from Hobbycraft, so, as we all do, instead of doing the housework, I decided to have a play.

Well, I have to say, "frankly, darling, it was a disaaaaaster!.

I punched a circle out with a nestie and stamped a doggie image onto it.  Then added a little bit of colour with Sakura Gelly pens.  The ink wasn't dry but I 'assumed' the heat from the heat gun would dry it.  Well I can tell you, it doesn't!  It ended up all smudged .....

So I cut out another circle and tag shape, stamped them up and left them to dry (thought it might take an hour or so but I had to leave them overnight before they were completely dry).

Shrunk them with the heat gun and this is the results ....

Frankly, they're rubbish and are no use for anything!  but I'll probably have another go at some point. One thing I did learn is that the larger the piece of plastic you work the better the results seem to be i.e. the doggie circle has kept it's shape better than the smaller pieces.

Any tips gratefully received.

Happy Crafting

Suze x