Friday 24 January 2020

Shrink plastic revisited

It's absolutely AGES since I had a play with shrink plastic and while tidying up my crafts stash I realised I had a couple of sheets of printable shrink plastic which I'd bought *cough* a little while ago.  They came with a free download of some tags to print and the date on the download is 2007 so the while might not be so little after all. And the pack was still unopened - talk about NBUS!

So, I printed the sheet of tags, cut them out and punched  holes in them and shrank them in the oven  since there were so many, and I now have a batch of handy little chunky tags to use. Here is the first of them in action:


This flower stamp is even older than the shrink plastic, it must be at least 20 years old. It's an un-named red rubber UM that came in a grab  bag and is one of my all time favourite stamps. I used Promarkers to colour it to go with papers from the Craft Asylum "Candy" range - also very old, these are among the final odds and ends from an old pad. In real life the pink of the tag, flowers and papers is a much better match than it looks here - blame the gloomy weather and the fact that plastic and paper don't reflect flash the same way!

I am sharing this with

Passion  for Promarkers - Include a Tag 

Stamping Sensations - Favourite Stamps 

Crafty Calendar - Add a tag (thanks for the heads up, Liz!)

13 comments:

Crafting Queen said...

Lovely card and a great idea to use the shrink plastic like this.

Jo said...

Beautiful, a lovely image & I love all those layers. Cute tag too x

Liz said...

Lovely card, Jane. I haven't used shrink plastic for a long time, but I'm sure I've got a pack in some dark corner of my craft room! Thanks for the inspiration to look for it! Your card would be perfect for the Crafty Calendar Challenge where the theme is 'Add a tag'. xx

Linda Mc Enery said...

I just love that we all have things in our craft room that we simply HAD TO HAVE at the time we bought them, but years later, have never opened or used. More creativity than time, I think! This is lovely! Love your fabulous tag, your pretty papers and stunning image! Thanks for sharing this with us at Passion for Promarkers!
Linda

brenda said...

Great coordinating of colours and patterns Jane and pretty floral image, many thanks for sharing and joining in with our 'Favourite Stamps' theme at Stamping Sensations challenge.

B x

Barbara Godden said...

Beautiful card, lovely flowers and super cute tag. I found some shrink plastic at the dollar store the other day thought I could revisit it too. Thanks for the idea.

crafty-stamper said...

Love the stamped flowers,great papers and little shrink plastic tag,(whispering)I bought some shrink pastic must be about 10 yrs ago easily put it somewhere same and despite moving all my craft stuff from one bedroom to another THREE times I finally found it last year!!! lol
Carol x

Sandma's Handmade Cards said...

Such lovely layering of the different papers that co-ordinate beautifully with the stamped image. Thank you for joining us in our 'Favourite Stamps' challenge at Stamping Sensations and good luck. Sandra x

Rainey's Craft Room said...

Wow what a wonderful card. I haven't used shrink plastic for ages and I remember it being so much fun watching the whole design curl up and uncurl in front of your eyes, I must find mine. Like you it's probably lurking in the back of a drawer and how great it is to use up our older stash too. Thanks for sharing this lovely creation with us at Passion For Promarkers this week.
Lorraine DT

pinky said...

That is one pretty card Jane. Love all the co-ordinating layers and beautiful flowers. Thanks for joining us at Stamping Sensations.
Pinky

Crafty KJ said...

Aw this is just fab! Great image and I love your bright colours. I'd forgotten about shrink plastic and what a great idea to use it for the tag and to make a batch of them at the same time! Thanks so much for sharing at Passion for Promarkers this week. Hugs, Karen xx

Sue said...

This is fab! Such a great idea for your tag thanks for sharing with us at Crafty Calendar challenge hugs Sue x

The Crafty Den said...

Gorgeous card Jane. I love that you've used so many 'forgotten about' items on your card. The image is gorgeous and your colouring is perfect. Thanks for sharing with us at PFP this week and good luck in the prize draw. Hugs, Denise x