The first thing you need is Shrink art plastic, the one I prefer is the one for inkjet printers but it also comes in sheets you can stamp and color on.
Then cut out your image.
Now comes the fun part! You can either put the image into your oven and bake it or or heat it up with an embossing tool. It shrinks up really fast, within 20 seconds or so but it gets HOT! so be careful. I do hold mine down with a metal pokey tool very gently because it can poke a hole in the material. It will also fold over onto itself but normally will flatten back out, if not, just pull it open while warm. Sometimes I will take an acrylic stamping block and smush it down to flatten it but sometimes I let it cool just a bit and hold the wings up on the sides to give it some dimension.
Here is a comparison of one just cut out and one heated.
And here is one on my finished card.
5 comments:
Oh Amanda!! I didn't realize these were made with shrink stuff!! Fabulous!! I am sooooo going to try this!! Thanks for the great tutorial!! You rock, sistah!! Hugs. Pat
Great Tutorial and gorgeous flutterbys!
Used to play with this stuff all the time when I was a kid. The detail you get from those printed images is just awesome. Might have to pick up a pack of this to play with if I ever get a decent color printer. Great tute Amanda. Hugs!
I have shrinky stuff here! I should use some! I don't think I ever thought of printing images off computer - I just stamped my images on stuff and colored, then shrunk it!
This opens up to a lot more possibiities!!!
I will have to give this a try. It looks like fun and makes beautiful embellishments.
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