Saturday, February 15, 2025

Crafting - shrink plastic embellishment for a bag featuring a cute mushroom image


I wanted a little embellishment for my youngest granddaughter's bag so I decided to create a fun mushroom embellishment with shrink plastic.  I found the mushrooms image (Pixabay), sized it and then printed it about 6" or so.  I laid a sheet of transparent rough textured shrink plastic over it and traced the outline with a fine tipped black permanent marker and then added colour using pencil crayons with various levels of pressure to provide different values of the colours.  It does not require too much colour to really get a very good result with pencil crayons.  Once I was finished colouring I cut the circle out with scissors and punched a 1.4" hole at the top so I could add a  hanger.  I heat it with my heat gun until it was flat though it did go through quite the convulsions getting there.  It finished up just over 2" around.  I am very happy with the finished piece!! She will be able to use it any way she wishes as she grows up.  Therese

















 

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