TRANSPARENCIES AND SHRINK FILM

Do you remember Shrinky Dinks as a child? I do, so when my daughter showed an interest in making some, I was thrilled. In the kit that we bought, there was a wonderful book filled with clipart to trace and color. At the moment my daughter began tracing her first picture, I had an AaaHaa moment. I thought to myself, wouldn’t HugWare be great as Shrink Art. On my next trip to town, I picked up my own Shrink Film. While scouring the store for it I ran across Transparencies and had another AaaHaa moment. With my purchases in hand, it was home to my Hugbug Browser.

When working with shrink film and transparencies follow the directions on the package. I found that printing the shrink film in draft print gives you better color when the art is shrunk. Using transparencies is a great way to avoid hiding that perfect background paper you bought for a special occasion.

Now it’s your turn to get creative. Go sneak some shrink film from your kids or go buy your own stash. Break out the transparencies and see were your HugWare will take you.

Just for fun:

TEN WAYS TO KNOW IF YOU ARE ADDICTED TO SCRAPBOOKING

1. Your three year old wants to know if her coloring book is archival quality.
2. You decide to let your child join scouts so you can use all the Creatables containing scout graphics.
3. You’re in a fender bender and your first thought is “I wonder what graphic will coordinate with this event”
4. You try to claim your album purchases as a medical expense because it’s such good therapy.
5. You redecorate your family room to coordinate with your photo albums.
6. Your child is the only one who thinks “crops” means “to cut your photos.”
7. Scraps from your corner rounder cuttings can be found in unusual places: school lunch bags, briefcases, the laundry, the dog’s water dish.
8. A regular sandwich is no longer acceptable … it must be cropped or cut with decorative edges.
9. You buy a new swimsuit because it matches the new gingham background paper you bought.
10. You’re the only one at social gathering yelling, “Just one more photo folks. I don’t have enough for a 2 page layout.”
    

Layout 1: HOME ON THE RANGE

Supplies:

• Farm Critters Creatable by Shan’l Parish
• Ink Jet Shrink Film by Royal Brites
• Sage green, brown and kraft cardstock by Bazzill
• Tarnished Brass eyelets by Making Memories
• Hemp Jewelry cord by The Beadery
• Fonts, Pointedly Bad and Scriptina
• Hole paper punch

Instructions:

1. Copy and paste the clip board graphic from the Farm Critters Creatable into a workspace. (I use Microsoft Word and drag and drop in painted format.) Size to 4”x6” to end up with 2”x2.5”. Create a text box and place it in the clip board graphic and create a title or journaling. Print onto the shrink film in draft print, and cut out. Punch a hole in the top of the clip board using a hole punch. Follow manufacturer’s instructions for baking.
2. In landscape format, type the title, HOME ON THE, using Pointedly Bad font and RANGE using Scriptina. Size the titles to fit onto the layout. Print onto brown cardstock in mirror image and cut out. (An exacto knife works best for the Scriptina font and getting the center out of letters.)
3. Cut 2 strips of the sage green cardstock to 1”. Attach one at the top of the layout using eyelets and one approximately 3” from the bottom.
4. Adhere the title to the layout. Thread a piece of jewelry cording through the shrink art and tie it into the RANGE title.
5. Mat any desired photos with sage cardstock and arrange onto layout. Randomly place a few pair of eyelets onto the layout.
   

Layout 2: STRAIGHT AS AN ARROW

Supplies:

• pcHugClub July pcDolls Summertime by Lori Gardner
• Sports Equipment Creatable by Kellie A. Rohrer
• Ink Jet Shrink Film by Royal Brites
• Navy and white cardstock by Bazzill
• Pink printed paper by Provo Craft
• Vellum
• Navy and white embroidery floss
• Hole paper punch
• 1/16” hole punch by Fiskars
• CB Vertical Swirls Font
• Vellum tape by 3M

Instructions:

1. Copy and paste the boy and girl dolls from the pcDolls Summertime and size the boy to 7” tall and the girl 6” tall. Copy and paste the shorts outfits and size to fit. Open up the Sports Equipment Creatable and copy and paste the archery target and bow with arrows. Place the bow and arrows into the hands of the dolls. Rotate to fit and look like the dolls are holding the bow. Size the target to 3”x3”. (I use Microsoft Word and drag and drop in painted format.) Print onto shrink film in draft print and cut out. When cutting out the graphics, leave a slight border around the edge and a tab at the top to punch a hole in for hanging. Follow manufacturer’s instructions for baking.
2. Prepare the background for the layout by tearing the pink printed paper. Tear one piece to approximately 7” and the other to 1”. Place onto to the navy cardstock as seen in picture. Print a title onto white cardstock in landscape format. Tear and adhere in the navy opening between the pink papers.
3. Creatively mat your focal point photo giving it a wide border. Punch 6, 1/16” holes evenly into the bottom of the mat. Adhere the photo to the top left of the layout going off the top of the layout slightly. (Adhere only the top of the photo.) Trim off the extra mat. Attach the shrink art to the layout using the embroidery floss and knotting it through the 1/16” holes.
4. Mat any other desired photos using navy and white cardstock and adhere to layout. Add any journaling by printing it onto vellum and tearing it out. My journaling is poem the reads … keep in mind that I’m not Thena.

My daughter knows how to shoot a bow,
The bullseye is where she aims.
If she were to miss the target,
Your heart she would hit and claim.

She shoots her bow with grace and poise,
And tries to win the game.
Whether she places first or last,
She’ll always be in my Hall Of Fame.

Layout 3: REEF SNORKELING

Supplies:

• Fishy Kisses Creatable by Carolee Jones
• Transparency by Hammermill
• Background paper by Autumn Leaves
• Coral color cardstock by Bazzill
• Unicorn font

Instructions:

1. Open up a workspace. (I use Microsoft Word.) Create a title at the top of the 8.5”x11” layout. Change colors of the font to match your background paper by going to format, font, and change color. You can add a border to your font by checking the outline box.
2. Create a border around the layout by going to format, borders and shading, and page border. Choose a border and click OK.
3. Add the Rock Border and Mermaid graphic from Fishy Kisses to the bottom of the layout. I used colored format. Print onto the transparency. (I printed mine in draft print so it wasn’t to dark to match the background paper.)
4. Mat photos with the coral cardstock. Arrange transparency and photos onto layout. Once you know where your photos are going, adhere the transparency to the layout so the photos will hide any tape or adhesive marks.
   

Layout 4: ISLAND ATTITUDE

Supplies:

• Summertime Bears Creatable by Tammy Sherman
• Summertime Scrappin’ Creatable by Julie Torske
• LD Alphabet, Sandcastles
• Adler font
• Speckle Picture Frame Orange cardstock by The Paper Loft
• White cardstock
• Twill Journey Adventure ribbon
• Eyelets, More Mustard by Stampin’ Up

Instructions:

1. Open up a workspace. (I use Microsoft Word.) Set page layout to landscape. And set margins to 1/2”. Insert a 4”x10” text box. Insert any text or use the words to a song. I used the words to Margaritaville by Jimmy Buffett. (The picture was taken at Margaritaville in Key West.) I copy and pasted the words from lyrics.com. I then changed the font to Adler and the color to dark gray and sized to fit into the text box. Add the flip flops from the Summertime Bears Creatable and size to fit on the left side of the text. To make it go over the text, go to format, picture, layout, and click on, in front of text. Print onto a transparency and trim to a ½” border at the bottom. Attach to the top of the layout with an eyelet in the top corners.
2. For the second transparency, center and type the word Attitude in Adler font size 95 and change to dark gray. Approximately 1” below this make a random row of 7, 1.25” flowers from the Summertime Scrappin’ Creatable. Print onto a transparency. Trim to 5” with the closest flowers ¼” from the bottom.
3. Using the LD Alphabet Sandcastles, create the word ISLAND. Size to 3” tall and 9” wide. Print onto white cardstock and cut out. Adhere to the bottom of the layout using the white edge of the background paper as a guide. Lay the transparency over the ISLAND title and attach by placing an eyelet in the center of each flower.
4. Attach a strip of the twill ribbon above the ISLAND Attitude title using eyelets. Adhere photo onto layout.
5. Print 3, 1.25” flowers and 2, ½” flowers onto white cardstock and cut out. Place the larger three randomly over the bottom transparency with the row of flowers and attach using eyelets. Adhere the smaller 2 onto the flip flops.
6. Put on a Jimmy Buffet CD and enjoy a beverage of your choice with an umbrella added to it.