Shrunken Pumpkins
Aside from a friendly pumpkin carving competition between the two of us, Mr L and I don’t usually go in for Halloween. However, I’m rather taken with these Visible Image Happy Halloween pumpkin stamps so I think we’ll be having a bit of spooky décor up this year! This week, I’ve been playing with shrink plastic, a completely new product for me. It seems most people had a play with it when they were at school but I didn’t! I used the Sizzix white shrink plastic and you can see the difference on size here between the small stamped pumpkin and the shrunken ones. As this involves stamping onto plastic, a non-porous surface, I used Stazon ink. Some people aren’t comfortable using Stazon on photopolymer stamps but I’ve never had any bother, although I do make sure to clean the stamps immediately after stamping. To begin with, I used Sharpie markers to colour the pumpkins but when they touched the stamping, they did drag some of the black. I had more success,...