 Hey everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching my tutorial today. I've got something a little bit different, I'm going to be showing you how to make these really fun gift ideas using your stamps and shrink wrap. So many of you probably would have remembered melting crisp packets and you can melt other plastics as well, some of your plastic that you know maybe your fruit comes in, like your grapes come in like the punnets and stuff, those boxes, some of those plastics do shrink but I don't really know too much about that so you'd have to look into that further but I'm using shrink plastic, I will show you the ones that they've used, I've made this lovely ring absolutely, oh love it so much, and then I've made this key ring, so this is using clear shrink plastic, this one's using white, it's not so much my favorite one, that one you can see it probably better there, so it's just matte white and then these are on like a more of a cloudier style, love the dragonfly earrings, think they look really nice and these bears here as well, so the stamps I've used for the dragonfly was this one here which was an old creative stamping from March 2017 and it was this here so you can see the difference in size, they say they shrink by seven times their size, I'll show you the other ones through the video, that one is a doodle that I've done myself and I'll show you that one as well, it's really easy to do, it's a nice way to make some homemade gifts and just make something nice for yourself as well, but yeah let me crack on and show you how to do it okay so I've got three kinds of shrink wrap here, now these ones were the ones that I picked up when I was living abroad, these are from a shop called Daiso and I have the white shrink plastic and the clear shrink plastic, so that's how the clear comes out, that was the one I used so it is completely see-through and then the white one is exactly that, so you have this here, but it's gone, if anything it's like a little bit gray, you're just a little bit, I don't know, I'm not massively keen on that, out of all of them I actually prefer this one here, which is a little bit of both, so it has a slightly cloudy background and this is the one I picked up from the charity shop, I will share any links, it's by Fun Stamps, but there's loads of shrink plastics but it's better if I get a colored piece of cardstock here, but it is like a slightly cloudy but still clear, it's just it's not like that one, you can see just how white that is and obviously just how see-through this one is here, so that's the one that I prefer out of the mold, I will share you know the best ones that I can find for you, so what I want to do first of all is just show you how much these shrink down, so on this one here it says that it will reduce in size by seven times smaller, so just to kind of give you an idea of exactly what that is, this is the stamp that I used for this one, okay so you can see how it started and then how it ends up, okay so it depends what kind of result you want, if you want something quite big like key ring kind of size then you want to go for something that is large, so this stamp is five and a half, five and three quarters, by three and a quarter high, that's inches, so that's that one and then for the ring, this is one of my biggest stamps that I have and this is that indigo blue one and you can see, sorry it needs cleaning, you can just see how big it is and this one is six inches by about five, the largest point there, you're looking at about five and a half and that will give you this, so you can see the difference, now the nice thing about this is when you colour them it's very light but once it shrinks obviously the colour is just so vibrant and I'll show you the markers that I've used and I just think it looks fantastic, really really pleased with that one, so I do like the larger ones, so what I'm going to do today is I'm going to use this, the pink fresh and I think these are going to make some really nice earrings, so I'm probably just going to go for this one here so there's nothing kind of really kind of, I don't know maybe I might do that one but if I just show you, this is the one here, this was the bear, pop it on its thing there, so this is the Christmas bear by Simply Creative, this is brand new and you can see there the size earring and I think that's a really nice size for an earring, so this measures two and a quarter by one and a half, okay so this one will be two and a half by three, so it's going to be a little bit larger but still a nice size for an earring, so I would say within that three by three kind of size would probably be a nice earring size, so I'm going to stamp I think let's do, let's go for this one actually, I'm okay so I'm going to grab some of the shrink plastic, now the other thing with this one that's different to the other two is this has a rough surface and a smooth surface and it's the rough surface that you stamp onto and colour onto, so it grips the the pen, the marker, so this is the rough surface and on the back you see it's got much more of a shine to it, so it's the rough surface that you want to stamp onto, so I've got that lovely big stamp here, pop that onto my, you can use your stamping platform if you want but I'm just using my acrylic blocks here, now so it does say to use stays on or fabrico, so stays on it is that's what I've got here, now generally stays on isn't good for marker pens, you do have to be careful when you're colouring, I did try using the Nuvo Hybrid because that works with watercolour and marker pens but it just bled, it didn't have a good finish that one there, I haven't tried Versafine but again that's not marker friendly, so I haven't tried Versafine but I'm not going to bother today, I'm just going to carry on using this because I know I can get away with it with my markers just by the way that I colour, just carefully, so I'm going to ink this one up, it's a beautiful stamp this one, I can't wait to use it on some cards, you don't have to worry too much about how black it is because when it should like I said when it shrinks down it really shows up, so don't worry if it's like a little bit where it's slightly lighter, probably should have used my little foam base but again it will all come together, no that's perfect, really really nice impression, so I'm just going to do that twice because obviously I want a pair of earrings, you do want to make sure that you've got, it says to cut with leaving a three mil border, okay so I mean that's that's a three mil border, so you can see there you just get a slight little frame around, again that one there you can probably see a bit better, the border on that one there okay, oh they are lovely, these are absolutely beautiful, I will link this stamp set and the other ones that I've used as well because this is just a lovely set especially for Christmas but also all year round because I am going to colour these with Christmas colours in mind but yeah you can do anything with these, markers I'm using are these ones, these are the Spectre Noir classic and these are the brights so I thought they're going to be great for this, so like I said they will go on slightly lighter but then you can see how intense the colour is, it's so you know colourful it just it it does really show you can see there just how lovely that pink is, so I've got the set like I said these are the brights and these are permanent markers you do want a permanent marker, so it says I mean yeah I guess you don't want to use a pencil because that's just not going to is just won't I imagine stick to it but could you use any other kind of pens, I can't see why a felt tip wouldn't work so I mean you know play around have some fun with it because it is it's it's quite addictive actually okay so I think what I'm going to do is I'm going to do reds, pinks and some greens because we've got quite a few different layers so okay so what I'm going to do is I'm going to start off with red on top let's do this one here so don't I mean I found that leaving it to really dry and it didn't really bleed with my marker pen but what I'm doing is I'm not really touching the black I'm just kind of yeah because it's almost like there's a fiber layer so the the color really does grip to it so you can see it's pretty bright now but once that shrinks down it looks even better zoomed in there a bit closer so you can see so I'm going to color this in you can do whatever you want you don't even have to color so it's entirely up to you okay so I've colored them in so I've got a mix of greens on the leaves and then I've done the red pink and red hopefully once that shrinks down that's really going to show up so now I'm just going to cut them out so like I said it does stay it does say that you want to leave at least three mil one thing I would say is this stuff if you go in to too much of like a a tight point you'll get a bit of a I guess it's hard to explain what it I would say it is it's just it kind of stretches the plastic so for example if I just do if I just show you here like if I go right in really tight like that and then come back out can you see it kind of like snaps into it like um causes causes like a little shard to like crack in crack that's the word I'm looking for so you kind of want to not have that so just try not to do your angles too tight keep it quite yeah just make sure it kind of flows quite nicely really so I'm just going to go around there you can see the border I mean is it three mil I don't know but you just want to make sure you've got some kind of consistent frame there around it all okay so I've cut them down so now I want to decide I know I'm having them as earrings but you know if you want to have them as a key ring a charm whatever like that you just need to decide where you want to have the dangle to kind of start so I am going to have them I think hanging down like this let's just see what that side looks like see that could look quite nice and have that kind of in towards my ear I would want them to stick it now I'm going to have them out actually so I'm going to pop my hole now with the crocodile you've got the smaller one and then you've got the larger hole so I'm going to go for the smaller and I'm going to pop a hole just there you can see where I put my hole just there okay so I'm going to just kind of roughly line those up okay so that's all done okay now these ones you can use in the oven and that's how I used to do my crisp packets we used to shrink them down make little key rings but you can also also use your heat tool so I'm going to get that nice and hot I'm going to turn the sound down I'm going to hold this down with the pokey tool now it will all screw up into a ball you'll think it's all ruined but then it will eventually flatten back out again and as it starts to flatten out I then put this clear block on it just for literally a few seconds and it will just make sure it goes nice and flat and that's what I've done with this you can see there how nice and flat the ring is and again with the star and stuff everything you know it just I found it just helped it so I'm going to get this nice and warm turn the sound down and you can watch it come together fingers crossed so literally I just put this over the top it won't stick if it does it will come straight off so don't worry but now we turn it over where's the hole there's the hole there for the earring look at that gorgeous and it's solid dry so quick still warm but it's completely flat which I like but that's the mat side and then you turn it over and you've got the shiny side and that's the side that I will have facing out with the earrings I actually really like them I think they're going to look really really pretty so let's do the other one I've just thought they're both going to hang like that aren't they because they're both the holes are there so that one yeah you don't want to turn it around so I would have maybe I should have done that one up that way so when they hung down one would be that way and one would be that way but is it the end of the world no so okay so this is just my kind of jewellery bit I've put all sorts in there but I'm going to use those and these here so I've got two earrings and then I'm going to have a couple of rings I don't know what size if I do the same yeah now I'm going to go for these ones here if I can find these bits and pieces I will link them it's very inexpensive and like I said at the beginning it's a perfect way to make gifts oh actually that was too small that must have gone into the wrong one there we go lost my other pliers so I'm just going to have to use these with these great big horrible ones so first of all I'm going to add I'm just going to add the ring no actually because I'm on the other side I want to add the earring I've got one earring I think they look really really nice I'm just going to put the other one on okay so there they are finished they look really nice I'm really pleased with how they've turned out they are perfect for you know for giving us Christmas gifts you can see there just the different looks that you can get you've got the just the simple black stamped there to give you those little dragonfly earrings then I've done something a little bit Christmassy I might even put some actual little tiny fabric bows on the top of these ones here I think they're going to look really cool but I think it's a really fun way of using your stamps and to make nice gifts you can make a ring as well you don't have to have it as big as me you imagine that one there that would look really nice on a ring you know you could do something creative with that even have the little bear on a little ring if you're giving these to your you know the younger younger children and stuff and then if you just like to make key rings you could maybe have these for your business your business name on your key rings and then the white one like I said I'm not so keen on the white my further clear or the slightly cloudy finish that you get and yeah there's the ring as well so I hope you like them I hope I've inspired you to have a go I might try this again on the clear and maybe because when you look at the clear it is I'd say more vibrant than all the rest I know that one looks quite clear as well but that's against white but I think that has a real yeah you can really see the color on that one to just have a play around like I said I'll share as many links as I can do love my ring absolutely love that anyway I'm going to go thanks for watching and I'll see you again soon bye