Anyone tried stamping and Shrinky Dinks?

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If you plan to make charms, be sure to poke a hole in the piece before you shrink it.

I've done it before. I used Memento ink and copics. Just be sure to color on the rough side.

There was a recent insta video that Silhouette posted doing exactly this. They were adorable!! It makes me wonder if I could stamp some of my greeting farm images, color them in and shrink them. I ended up down a rabbit hole watching people do all sorts of things within the minute time constraints using shrinking plastic after that, lol.

The first thing is to make a shrink ruler. I used the black shrink plastic. Cut a piece 1½"X10". Using a ruler mark the strip by ¼", and shrink. The dinky ruler will tell you the size to start with.
There are 2 methods to shrink, oven and heat gun (hair dryer will not work).
I stamped the guy with umbrella and cut him out. Because I am NOT allowed to use kitchen appliances, I used my heat gun. I was successful 3 out of 8 tries. Got a lot of curled umbrellas and legs twisted.

You can also buy shrinky dink paper that you can use in your ink jet printer. You can just print the outline and color any way you like.

They sell the packs pretty cheap at Michaels if you have a coupon.

I remember something like this being popular around 20 years ago back when I was a stamper. It was pretty much the same technique but it wasn’t called Shrinky Dinks. I never got the hang of it. Maybe I should give it another try.

auroraborealis If you use a standard 1/4 inch hole punch, the hole will shrink to the perfect size for a jump ring or ribbon to fit through it. My kids had Shrinky Dinks about 15 years ago, but they've been around longer than that. I've also used shrink plastic, which is the same thing, to make earrings and other jewelry. I've even made embellishments for my cards and scrapbook pages. I still have some clear, white, and black shrink plastic. Thanks for motivating me to use some.

At school we use metal pie pans to heat them in (with a heat gun) and then flatten them with another metal pie pan.  I absolutely agree you need something to flatten them with.  Acrylic block is much smarter, we will use that next time.

That is clever, i think next time I think I will get some binder clips and attach some mesh over the shrinky dink.  I wonder if it matters if you hear from one side or need to use two pieces of mesh?  

If I remember correctly, it was like a frame ( mesh being the "photo").Heated just from the top.

When my 2 youngest nieces were born 2 months apart, I started an annual tradition of buying them a special Christmas ornament each year.  I make a unique tag to go on each ornament with shrink plastic cut with a scissors or punch to about one and one-half inches or less.  I use a hole punch to make a hole for gold thread to go through and when completed attach it to the ornament top. I pick an appropriate Christmas stamp, sand the shrink plastic, stamp with Stazon and color with Sharpies. I use pastel colored Sharpies or sometimes my Prismacolor Pencils as the color really intensifies when shrunk. On the back of the tag with an extra-fine permanent marker, I write:   To: Veronica, Christmas 2018, with so much love from Aunt Missy.

I use my heat gun to "shrink it", keeping a Teflon coated tweezers handy to help uncurl the item if necessary, but usually it will straighten itself out just fine if I consistently keep the heat on it until it is done. The tiny tags make a really nice personalized touch and document the year each item was added to each girls' collection. I think they will become little heirlooms as they age and use them on the trees in their own homes when they grow up and have their own families. This is particularly important to me since I have terminal cancer and I won't be around to to see them go out on their own, but I know they will remember me for a minute each year when they put up their Christmas decorations.

I did it years ago. I made a mini medic alert bracelet tag for my daughters’ allergy. It was 2005 so I don’t exactly remember how i did it! I know I printed the image on the shrinky Paper, and then put embossing powder on it to make it shine maybe?!?!

Stampin' Up! used to sell shrink plastic for this technique - in the mid-2000s - for sure 2003ish, when I was first introduced to them. I used StazOn to stamp on the plastic. If you check the Splitcoaststampers galleries you may find some cards using shrink plastic.