The Rabbit Hole Designs: Shrink Plastic

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Festive Holiday Earrings

Hello there crafty friends I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving with your loved ones! I am ao very grateful for you! Thank you for taking the time to stop by and check out today's blog.

I am creating an easy handmade gift using The Rabbit Hole Designs' Baby's First Christmas stamp set (an Agota Pop Illustration) and a few items form my stash. I love this cute stack of presents. I think they're so festive for the holiday season. I am making a pair of holiday earrings!

I grabbed some frosted shrink plastic and a 2 1/4" x 3 1/4" tag die from my stash to die cut the two shapes for the earrings (These will shrink down to 7/8" x 1 3/8" creating a mini tag). I die cut a tag out of cardstock to use for a positioning template.

I placed the cardstock tag template in my Stamp Wheel. I added a small strip of lowtack tape at the top face down to help release the tags after stamping. I placed the cardstock tag in the template to position and stamped the image in the tag. I removed the cardstock tag and place the shrink plastic tag in the opening and inked up the image with StazOn ink. I repeated this step with the second shrink plastic tag.

I used OLO Markers to color the present images on the frosted side of each tag. To heat shrink the plastic tags, I use a wood cutting board with a piece of heat resistant grilling screen. The screen is clamped on one corner, but it helps to hold the plastic in place when I shrink it with the heat gun. Make sure to heat the plastic evenly. It curls up when it shrinks, but it will eventually flatten back out into a smaller version of the tag shape.

The earrings are made by adding the following: 2 small red jingle bells, 2 large silver jump rings, 4 small silver jump rings, 2 sterling silver earring clasps. I made two small organza bows with 1/4" frosted organza ribbon. I glued a bow on each tag just below the tag hole and attached the large silver jump ring to the tag hole. I attached each earring clasp to a small jump ring and then to the large jumpring on each of the tags. I used the second small jump ring to attach a jingle bell to the large jump ring on one of the the tags to complete each earring.

I think these are so adorable and make perfect to give that power-shopper in your life!

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Baby's 1st Christmas stamp set

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Sun Bunny-s Waving! Shaker Card with shrink plastic bunny

Hello my crafty friends and welcome to The Rabbit Hole Designs blog. Today I am sharing this fun shaker card featuring the Starfish in the Sand stamp set from the new April Release. I love the creating shaker elements with shrink plastic. The bunny is the main shaker element for this interactive card.

I stamped the bunny image on shrink plastic and colored it with colored him lightly with colored pencils. You do not need to color shrink plastic very dark. As it shrinks, the color intensifies. This little shaker guy is about one third the size of the stamped bunny.

I stamped the Starfish in the Sand image using Black Shadow Nuvo ink on to a piece of the Spring Florals #1 printed paper. These fun pink, purple and blue heart flowers look like sea shells. I colored the stamped seashells and the rocks in alcohol markers. I trimmed the ad front to 4" x 5 1/4" making sure to keep the image toward the top of the card. I cut out the bunny image from the middle of he shell cluster creating an organic shaped opening.

I mounted this card front onto a piece of oatmeal cardstock with an oval cut out to line up with the card front opening. I glued a piece of clear acetate behind the opening. I outlined the back of the oval opening with double sided foam tape creating a well. I added the shrunken bunny, sequins and bubble embellishments to the well. I added more foam tape and cut a back out of ocean wave printed papers. I sealed the ocean paper to the foam tape on the back of the card front sealing the shaker pieces in the oval opening. I mounted this on an A2 white card front and added the stamped sentiment on a piece of light blue cardstock and die cut a wave into the top to complete the card.

Super cute, right?

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Starfish in the Sand stamp set