 Hey guys, how are you today? All right today. We're going to work on this month's design team project with some of the products from my Etsy store including probably some of the embellishments I've made with my New stencil line this this is actually one of the stencils. It's not quite out yet. It will be available though for pre-order soon Along with the feathers that will be available for Peter soon Currently available are the arrows and This meditative face So I've got a bunch of these that I did with the melted metallic paste which at this point You've probably seen like ad nauseam on my channel and there's probably gonna be a couple more videos on it because right now I'm just fascinated by it, but so I have a bunch of these embellishments. So we might use some of these We'll definitely use some of the stamps now. I Have a kind of a fun DIY. So one of the things I want to do is play with Making sort of a layered mixed media charm But part of the layers I want to be shrink plastic and I thought hmm What if there's like a DIY for that rather than like buying shrink plastic if you can even buy it anymore? There is so You really should use number six plastic if you can figure out what that is You can use just product packaging. This is a lid from some cookies from the hardware store I'm hardware store the grocery store and this is actually Plastic from a new cell phone mount thing that I got for my car that fits on the dashboard So that I can do hands-free navigating with my phone Both of these work I cut strips of them I toasted them in my toaster oven at about 325 For just it just takes like a minute and they both shrink about a half an inch Not a lot This one the cookie one actually turned white, which is interesting. So I actually really find that fascinating so we're going to use that one and I'm going to whack off Part of this lid. I just want really the flat part And I don't even want to I mean this is really I'm taking stuff out of the trash can to do crafts with You could take your time to take like the label off and salvage as much of it as possible I'm not going to do that I am going to There's that nice flat part here on the side Which is where I made the piece from that I toasted and it started out Actually, if you can even see that about that size and it turned into this size So I'm not even sure if that's going to show up on camera, but It shrank not a lot in length, but it did shrink in width and turned white So I'm gonna just immediately throw all the trash in the garbage Okay, then we're going to take and we're going to take this and we're going to take some Permanent ink. I actually think I'm going to break out the stays on Which I don't use a whole lot anymore Um and my stamp binder. Let's see. Let's pick a stamp A stamp to shrink want to shrink That would be the question. Do we want to shrink a new one? Do we want to shrink an old one? I should be doing this on camera So here we go. Here's my stamp binder. These are all of my rubber stamp collections And this number here is the number of the collection. So this is number 10 7 I kind of think I want to stamp this one Which is from stamp number set number seven. Of course, it's at the bottom. So 11 nine eight two One of the first ones I did One three six five And four. So I do think we're going to go And are we maybe we're going to do a face. Let's do a face I take back what I just said We're going to do a face. So let's pull a face off of there And we are going to use the lid from the stays on ink It makes a great um diy stamp Pad and hopefully I won't have to re-ink the stamp pad. It's been a while since I used it. We'll find out I'm going to ink up our stamp is super well Um, this ink should work really well on this stamp pad. It does seem like it's Needing re-inking. So hang on. It's jet black So let's do that because it seems a little dry. I'm going to give that a second to soak in You want to get it nice and black? And we're going to stamp it on the plastic here somewhere You want to use a stamp that's not too small because um, Especially if you know your plastic's going to shrink a lot Um, you do want to do a test little test piece. I don't recommend you do this in your house in your oven Um, I recommend that You do it in a well-ventilated area. I have a little toaster oven in my old studio space out in the garage And I am going to do it out there. So there's our face zoom in On plastic. She's totally cute So I'm going to um, cut her out carefully hopefully not smear the ink And we are going to take that out into the garage and we are going to shrink her and hopefully turn have it turn white and See what happens. It's going to be fun. You could of course color her in before you do this I don't want to do that. I just want it black and white. So let's see what happens. All right, I'll be back Okay, we're out in the garage. I've got my face in my little toaster oven And I'm going to Got it set to About I don't know just under 350 somewhere around 325 and then I'm going to try it on Yeah, I'll be back when it's done and she's all Shrunk as much as she's gonna really quick. She turned white. She tried to get curly But I reached in there with some tools and uncurled it now I'm going to pull it out while it's warm and Smash it flat by putting it on the countertop With an old magazine on top of it and pushing down. So let's see if that works She didn't get perfectly flat, but I'm okay with that. It worked like a charm So let's take her back inside and compare her to the original size of the rubber stamp and see what the difference is All right, I'll be back. Okay. There's the original rubber stamp next to the stamped image on plastic It didn't shrink a lot, but it did shrink a little bit. There is a difference It not only got thicker, but the plastic went from clear to white. So that's pretty interesting I'm going to set up the camera back on its mount above my table now And we are going to get about to making some sort of an interesting Charm thing with my rubber stamp. All right, I'll be back. Okay So I have various bits and pieces and parts out here That I thought that I would do something with I'm going to take her and set her aside back over by the binder She is really cute. I love this. I may trim her a little bit more But let's set her aside for the moment and see this is a scrap piece of matte board That I just happened to have lying around And I said I wanted to do something with some of these So I think I do the question is do I want to do it on the black side or the white side? I might want to do it on the black side Because we already have this face. I don't want to use that face And I'll want the two images to be fighting with each other I kind of want to use the arrows I think I want to use the turquoise arrows So we're going to do that and we're going to tear some of them off here I'm going to use these And really what we're going to do is we're going to just collage this whole sheet on And whatever I don't use I'll save and I'll use it for something else. So that I'm not worried about We need a brush though So I'm going to put down some matte medium and obviously I didn't clean this brush very well last time I Used it because it's a little bit on the stiff side Okay, and then I'm going to take an old gift card or a frosting spreader Or you know what even you could use a palette knife and I'm just going to push The deli paper and these melted metal paste embellishments Down into the glue Now because I'm using matte medium and when it sits on top of the melted metal it's going to make it look dull And I don't want that I'm going to take A baby wipe or two and grab two the other one didn't want to come off And I'm going to just scrunch it up in a ball And I'm going to just run it over the melted metal parts Of the paper and wipe some of that matte medium off Now we're going to let that dry Well, it's drying We'll work on other parts So we're going to set that somewhere over here I have a tag I have an old pocket watch Case without the back or the front Which I think I want to use I've got my box of weird Odd bits and trims fabric bits and trims So let's see what we can come up with first. I want to put some color on this tag I do kind of like the idea Of dangling her from the tag Maybe this in front of her Something like something like that Maybe even cutting her so she fits inside of here that actually is interesting What if I did that? What if I trimmed her so she fits inside of there? You know I think we have to do that Now that I said it, I think we have to do that. So we're going to get a pencil And see if this will draw on here well enough To get a trim line. Does it? Yeah. Okay, so let's give it a Trim and see if we can get it to fit The nice thing about using this DIY shrink plastic is that it doesn't shrink up so much that you can't trim it with a pair of scissors Like I'm doing afterwards And I don't care if it's not a perfect circle. I just want it to fit inside here So I'm going to trim it trim it trim it just a little bit little bit little bit Until I can force it inside the pocket watch frame I don't even need to put glue on that. She's going to stay. How cute is that? Can you all see that? You could just do that and call it a day. That's totally cute You could of course glue it in um, you could cover it in crystal accents or something Cute cute cute. Oh, I love that. All right. That's so cute. All right I'm just that was way too easy All right, let's see what's in here before I do anything else. Let's see what kind of craziness we've got going on in this box So I like that's just a little random piece of scrap piece of paper that I had in here um, I you know, I don't Even throw this kind of thing away because I can use it for something when you're doing sort of a fabric collage You never know what little bits are going to work for you For that next project now that being said I do only let this box get so full and then I either have to use up some of the bits or Um, I have to clean it out and throw some stuff away. So Be mindful of like how much room you actually have to work with I'm going to take just a random piece of paper. I want to color this lace up a little bit So I've got some studio g ink. I'm sure this is not like waterproof or anything. It doesn't matter And see that these are like dollar 50 ink pads. So sometimes when I'm using them that, um Ink pad actually falls out of the that's all right. I don't care I got a green one, but I don't want to use the green one. I think I want to use blue Because you know big surprise I don't see that one's not going to stay either when I put Like a piece of that back there. I have this little piece of tape measure Which I don't know why I want to use that on here. I just do Somebody sent me that I don't know who I'm going to Get out my tiny attacher, but I also think that I want to pull the sewing machine out really quick I have one that's just for mixed media. I think I want to pull it out really quick And I think I want to do some stitching on here. So let me do that and I'll be right back Hey guys, all right So this is how our fabric tag looks and again, we just have scraps of fabric I cut this little piece off of the watch frame I stitched all these things down I'm going to take our little shrink plastic image And the rest of that little scrap of fabric which is at the top of the watch frame and I'm going to stitch it down Just below this eyelet hole in the tag And I'm I'm not trimming off any of the threads. I'm leaving them hanging I'm leaving them hanging, but I'm I'm trimming them so they're not like super long But I'm not trimming them completely off. I want it to have bits and pieces sticking out Of course, this one down here doesn't want to trip. Okay So right now we have that which is by itself interesting. You could stop there. We're not going to stop there Y'all should know better. We're not going to stop there. All right. So here is our piece of Matte board. It's not quite dry So let me get out the heat gun and let me try it and I'll be right back. Let me try it. Let me dry it And I'll be right back. Okay. I trimmed off a piece of the matte board with the arrows on it And I trimmed the black edges. I'm going to take this Tim Holtz um distressing tool That I probably don't use nearly enough And I'm going to just run it along the edges. The edges are a little too pristine for me And I'm going to attach this here Sort of offset it and we're going to make this giant charm so the prompt to this month is um charms and um shrink it um basically making embellishments and I really wanted to show you how to use um a few different things from my etsy shop to make some sort of charms or um embellishments for your journals for your artwork um You of course could just do this and you could you know, this could be a necklace. It could be a key chain And you could just use what you have what you have laying around and make something interesting for your art Or make some art interesting out of interesting art out of what you have So what we want to do here is I want to poke a hole And I want to attach this to the board with a brad So I'm going to use my pokey tool To mark where the hole should be And then I've got my big giant hole punchy thing So I'm going to stick this in here and line it up and I got to get my drawer of brads Yes, I have a drawer of brads Because you know, I couldn't find them so I bought more plus people gave me some and so now I have drawer o brads So it's been my goal to use up some of them. I don't like that color I want one of these dark ones dark metal ones Just dressed here we go That'll work because it's like a similar color to the watch frame So I want to use that one That is super cute. I love that um We'll put this away. I think Because it's just in the way I want to get out a word A word Oh or a phrase Yeah This is not this is I yeah, this just popped out at me. It says just a life I don't know why I like that, but I do so we're going to stick that on there You could stick anything on there. Um, some of my stamp sets have Words in them so you could stamp a word on a piece of paper. I need that oops In fact, most of my stamp sets to have words on them Glue doesn't want to come out of the bottle. That can't be good So now I am going to take the tag so it doesn't slide around too much And I'm going to take the bottom of it and I'm going to use my tiny attacher To staple it to the board So it won't slide around And there you go. I love that So use the bits and pieces that you have stuff from your stash Pract play with some shrink plastic I know we none of us have done shrink plastic in like a million years make some little charms make some pendants And just use what you have to try to think outside the box I'm going to include the video links to the rest of my design team In the description below. Let's see what they've come up with this month Go ahead and watch their videos show them all some love. I sure would appreciate it if you all did that and If you would like to support my channel by shopping in my Etsy shop and get a set of stamps or some stencils or something The link for that the link for my facebook groups My address if you want to send me happy mail my email address all of that stuff's in the description So check it out. Of course the most important thing is to go out and have a great day Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later. Bye guys