DT: Kingston Crafts – Summer Shrink Plastic

Shrink plastic is fun to play with and the summer kit certainly had my mojo going thinking of all the uses that I could put it to! When I saw the pineapple image I immediately thought of the aloha stamp set I have in the stash so grabbed that to play with too!

Of course I actually started with the shrink plastic!

I chose to colour it with my stampin write markers and cut round the image with my scissors before having fun with the heat tool and shrinking it! This gave me a cute topper for the card. NB if you use a water reactive ink it is likely to react to any wet products you use to adhere your little embellishment – so be careful! I actually chose to adhere this upside down so the matt side was up but that’s because I think I prefer the mat to the shiny on this one!

Then I grabbed a panel of white and stamped aloha randomly around the centre point using the different coloured greens that I had used on the pineapple.

Next I decided that the main sentiment would be hugs so I stamped that and die cut it, stacking a few layers to it has dimension too!

Then I had a pause and had to decide how to finish.

So I grabbed the curved stitched rectangle dies and cut the aloha panel and some scraps of green and white. I then embossed the aloha panel with a Tim Holtz sunshine style folder and lightly inked it with yellow ink.

At this point I decided to use paper from the summer collection pack for the card base. Now whilst it is paper it’s actually quite thick so I find when I’ve added a topper and an insert it is sturdy enough to be used as a card base.

I corner rounded the edges for the card blank I made and then the same on a piece of white for the inside panel.

I then layered everything up for the front. I grabbed some white thread to make a little bow element to add some softer texture and then the green gems from the stash to finish off!

Really love this cheerful card!

Happy crafting!

Catherine