Going Dingbatty

Create Shrink-Plastic Charms

With printable shrink-plastic sheets, it's easy to craft charms from dingbat designs. Candi printed several designs at roughly four times the size she wanted them to be after baking and accenting her journaling strips with the little pieces.

Tips
Add color before baking. Use pens, pencils, or chalks to dress up designs before they're shrunk, or color the images using the eyedropper tool in your graphics program and print in color.
Account for shrinkage. Punch standard-size holes in your shrink-plastic tags before baking so the final openings will be large enough to thread ribbon through.

SOURCES Patterned paper: Making Memories (polka dot), Kangaroo and Joey (pink-and-orange stripe), Mustard Moon (taupe stripe), American Crafts (yellow). Fonts: DW Girlie Girl (dingbats) by Two Peas in a Bucket, Times New Roman (journaling). Ribbon: Making Memories  (pink), American Crafts (yellow). Label holder: Making Memories. Shrink plastic: Grafix.

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