Shrink Plastic Bracelet

I had my niece over for a crafty play day yesterday. We made t-shirts and bags and had a great time together. Towards the end of the afternoon I decided to give her a little shrink plastic demo. She's going into grade one next week so I knew shrink plastic would still impress her. I have not purchased any fresh shrink plastic in years. The pieces I had in my inventory are at least five years old. I don't think it can go bad. We shrunk all sorts of animals shapes. Kids love to see things shrink.

After my niece went home I started to clean up the studio when I decided to extend my crafty day with a few more experiments.

I have owned these row house rubber stamps for years. I finally figured out what I might stamp them on.

It's a little hard to see, but these are all the images stamped onto shrink plastic. I decided to just colour in the doors with pencil crayons. Afterwards, I cut out each rectangular house and punched a hole at the top of each piece.

I used my heat/embossing tool to "shrink" the plastic. This is what it looks like mid-shrink. When the pieces are shrunk, they are about 30% of their original size.

I took a gold marker to all the edges to make them look a little nicer.

The little rectangles turned out great. You can still see that these are houses. I attached it to a bangle bracelet and also added these pearls.

Ta Da. A children's art day still resulted in something neat for me!