DT: Kingston Crafts – summer shrink plastic

For this card I really wanted to represent the PSL joy! Not sure what I mean – well Pumpkin Spice Latte is one of my go to treats as soon as the coffee shops start selling it. It’s a hideous amount of calories though so I’ve try to limit myself but do miss it when it’s not available anymore! Also I love it iced as well as hot so when I saw these shrink plastic images that was what came to mind!

So I started with the shrink images and cut them out and coloured them in with the pumpkin colours and shrank them!

Aren’t they just the cutest?

I remembered that in my digital stamp collection I had these cups so printed out a whole panel full of them onto the white and did ink blending in lovely autumnal colours.

I die cut a circle for the little shrink PSL’s to sit on.

Now at this point I paused crafting for a few days and when I came back I had a small disaster and I tipped some water onto my desk and it ruined one of the shrink plastic pieces by disturbing the colouring – so note to self water based inks don’t mix well with water on shrink plastic! Doh! But fortunately everything else was safe it just meant two drinks became one!

I grabbed a couple of scraps of everyday cardstock to make a panel across my card and stuck all of those pieces down but then I had an idea … firstly I wanted Pumpkin Spice Latte on the card so printed that off on some of the solid cardstock that is in the spring slimline kit and then from the same piece I die cut this wood slice die from Altenew. I then inked it up with some distress inks and used that as the base for the circle die cut.

I also decided it needed some actual pumpkins so out came the Scenic Pumpkin patch stamps and stamped and fussy cut the set of three and then cut one out of the same set to raise it up on the foam adhesive.

I decided that was then done – a perfect PSL card – perfect for sending a Gift card to a fellow PSL lover I thought!

Happy crafting!

Catherine