Plastic is ubiquitous in our lives. There are so many different kinds and some of the plastic lying around our household is potentially useful for scrapbooking and card making. Check out your cupboards and recycling bin and see if anything catches your eye. Some plastics can be used as is, such as plastic straws, tablecloths, mesh bags, and bread tags, while other plastics can be transformed by heating or colouring. Some plastic is easily cut
with dies and scissors to make stencils, masks, and other embellishments, or it can be dry embossed or foiled if it’s fairly thin and flexible. Clear plastic packaging often is well suited for dry embossing and die cutting. If you don’t have suitable plastic in your house, you can buy craft plastic and acetate at scrapbooking stores to try some of these techniques. Check out some of these ideas for using plastic in your paper-crafting projects.
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SHARK BOY Connie Nichol, Sherwood Park, Alberta SUPPLIES: Carta Bella Paper Co. patterned paper and stickers, Ranger Dylusions paint, Stampers Anonymous stamps, StazOn ink, Pinkfresh Studio alphabet stickers, Tonic Studios Nuvo Crystal Drops, Zebra Pen Sarasa markers, EK Success punches, recycled bubble wrap, transparency and straws.
66 Creative Scrapbooker Scrapbooker || Summer Spring 2020 2021
Connie stamped the Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz octopus and some of the fish stamps onto a transparency with solvent ink, coloured the backside with Zebra Pen Sarasa markers and cut them out to make embellishments. She brushed paint onto a strip of bubble wrap to stamp the border on the bottom of the page and then adhered another strip of bubble wrap to the top to add more texture.
