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Shrink Plastic

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From Sherri Osborn, About.com

Shrink Plastic, or 'Shrinky Dinks', have been around since the early 1970s and their popularity has grown and declined since their induction. While it used to be available in only a translucent white sheet you colored on, these days you can find it in a few different colors and varieties. For those whomay not know know, you draw and color on a sheet of this thin plastic, cut out your design, and then place it in a pre-heated oven. You can then watch while the heat makes it curl and shrivel and then lay flat again; and, when they came out of the oven, they are a quarter of the size they were when you put them in and atleast 4 times as thick. As a child, I enjoyed making trinkets and ornaments using this product and now, as an adult, I have a whole new appreciation of the possibilities this product provides such as creating personalized scrapbook embellishments and jewelry charms.

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