Halloween Night

When in the UK I bought some Shrink Plastic and today I eventually got round to trying it out. With Halloween approaching I wanted to make a card for a friend of mine who decorates her house to the hilt, has a brilliant party every year and likes her party going guest to dress up lol.  Unfortunately this year she has moved away from where I live so alas hubby and I will be missing the party so I will be there via a card instead.

Here is a mini step through of my Shrink Plastic experiment lol
First I used a piece of clipart of a raven and printed onto the shrink plastic using an inkjet printer.  This really was a bit of a risk as the only instructions with the shrink plastic are are hand colouring.  I was not daft, I used the hubbies printer just in case it went badly wrong lol.  As you can see it printed really well. Next I had to cut the raven out ready for the next step.

 With the oven heating up nicely I raked out a baking tray and following instructions, lined it with tin foil (aluminum foil)

I don't have a picture of the next bit, but after placing the tray and raven in the oven I cringed watching this lump of plastic twist and curl.  The instructions warned this would happen and said it would go flat when ready (I didn't believe them) but they were right.

When ready, only took about 3 minutes, I took the tray out and placed a book on top per the instructions to keep it flat while cooling.  I now have the perfect use for a cookery book - those who know me know I detest cooking and am in a disaster in the kitchen :)

 Time to remove the book and see what has happened.  The instruction said the shrink plastic would shrink to one seventh the size of the original image.  Well like my cooking my maths is equally bad and demonstrated here as my raven turned out a lot bigger than I anticipated.  Oh dear, now I have to re-design my card to make him fit.  Apart from being to big I am absolutely delighted with the outcome and already got a few more ideas lined up for other projects.

Now for my card. I used the Halloween Night Digi Stamp and Paper Pack by Coosty Creations and added a couple of spider webs which I created and cut on my die cutter.  I then used black embossing powder on the webs. After hunting for ages I found a quote which I think goes pretty well with the card by Edgar Allan Poe - 'Convinced myself, I see not to convince' and then added a bit extra on myself lol - 'For tonight I take up my broom and FLY'.  This was printed onto one of the digi papers from the pack. The digi was coloured with Promarkers and fussy cut then put to one side for the time being.  Now for the hard bit, as my raven turned out much bigger than expected I had to think how to position it on the card.  A trip to my garden was in store to find a suitable twig for him to sit on. I coloured the twig with my black Promarker and attached it to the card with a strong adhesive. I then added a small green gem to the eye of the raven, attached the witch on her broom with foam tape and then stuck the raven into place.

 Ingredients:-

• White Linen card and black card from Craft Creations
• Digi - Halloween Night Digital Stamp and Paper Pack by Coosty Creations, available from the StitchyBear Digital Outlet
• Webs - designed and cut by me
• Shrink Plastic for the raven
• Stick, gem, brads, embossing powder and orange bobbly trim from my stash and garden

I am entering this card into the following challenges:-

• Passion For Promarkers - Spooky (Oct 23)
• Dream Valley - Halloween (Nov 3)
• Pile It On - #42 - Halloween/Day of the Dead/Cute and Creepy (Oct 28)
• Cut It Up  - #30 Halloween (Nov 1)
• Digi Haven - Halloween (Oct 30)
• Lori Designs - Colours - Black, Orange +1 your choice (Oct 24)
• Crafting For All Seasons - To Cute to Spook (Nov 1)
• Digi Galore - Halloween (Nov 1)
• The Cupboard Trilogy - Halloween (Nov 1)
• Lunagirl Moonbeams - Witchery (Nov 3)