I've been using the little heart from the Charming Prince set. I must confess to wondering what on earth I would do with this set when I received it, as I don't scrap children very often and it didn't strike me as being my style. But what I love about stamps is that you can take little elements of them and use them in different ways - for these little embellishments I used the heart shaped stamp, which is the perfect size.
Out came the shrink plastic (it always always reminds me of being little and me and my friends putting crisp packets into the oven to shrink and turn them into key rings! Anyone else?!) and I stamped the heart several times using Stazon. I coloured some of them in using permanent pens, and then it was shrinking time. I can never seem to get on with using a heat gun on shrink plastic - it all just blows away from me and gets curled up and stuck. The easy way is to plonk them on a baking tray and pop them into a hot oven; just a couple of minutes later they come out all nice and flat and shrunk.
These will get popped into my button tin ready to use on a layout or card.
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9 comments:
Hmmm I must give this a go like it a lot! M x
Thank you for the beautiful ideaa!!
oooh i remember collecting everyones crisp packets for shrinking for keyrings!! some brands worked better than others lol!
Great idea :)
these will look so cute! and thanks for the oven tip; I've been using the heat gun with some success.
WOW, great idea to use the oven to shrink the hearts.
Love your hearts - they are so sweet.
Stampersue
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super cute!
will definitely be giving this a go!
I love shrink plastic - must try that with some hearts stamps - and you could punch two holes into the hearts before shrinking (with crop-a-dile/silent setter) and they'd be real buttons!
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