Using Shrink Plastic for Scrapbooking and Cardmaking

Shrink plastic has been a kid's crafting staple since we were little. You can purchase it in sheets or in kits. Your home oven or craft heat gun are all you need to shrink the sheets to create plastic embellishments for your scrapbook pages, greeting cards, and other paper crafting projects.

1) Shrinky Dinks from Die Cuts for Scrapbooking and Cardmaking
Shrink plastic will work very nicely in many die cut machines. This step by step article shows you how easy it is to create embellishments with die cut shrink plastic.

2) Shrink Plastic Buttons and Embellishments
You do not have to own a die cut machine to create adorable embellishments with shrink plastic. You can use punches, or even trace paper piecing patterns on the plastic before you shrink it. This step by step article shows you how to use supplies you already have on hand to make your own custom-colored plastic buttons.

3) Shrink Plastic Scrapbook Page Gallery
Looking for ideas for using shrink plastic embellishments on your scrapbook pages? This gallery contains three scrapbook page layouts that use them for the main page decorations. One of the scrapbook pages is from Ellison and is covered in gorgeous shrink plastic flowers.