Bosic Direclions fol our Shrinky Dinks BTACK & BROWN Shdnkqble Plqstics WELCOME TO THE LAND OF SHRINKY DINK "You arc timited only by your own imaginatiorf' Hove o Shrinking good Time! Website: www.shrinkydinks.com (200-6A) OR STENCILS TEMPLATES There are a whole variety of shapes available. Cutting lines are visible when using a standard pencil and can be wiped off with a damp cloth. TOASTER OVEN OR CONVENTIONAL OVEN IMPORTANT ADULT SUPERVISION RUBBER ING SARAL STAMP- TRANSFER PAPERS White solvent-based Permanent Ink shows up best. Can transfer a pattern onto plastic using white or light colored paper. (Lines become perm. after baking). A Toaster Oven is ideal for baking Shrinky Dinks. However, your Conventional Oven will "Shrink" your masterpiece just as well. Steo 1: PRE-HEAT Oven to 325oF /S RFQU/RED WHEN CHILDREN ARE INVOLVED! (163'C). Steo turn one corner up. (Turnedup corner will make it easy piece moy stick to itself. lf this hop- to remove from tray or cookie sheet). Steo knowledge, Color with a light touch...Otherwise, colors may pick up off the plastic. To our this is ihe ONLY Color Medio thot will boke into plostic, possed oll tests ond does not trocing lines. smeor replacement tips. Use an eraser' moistened Q-tip or Exacto-Knife blade to remove unwanted lines and color. COLORED PENCILS AND ACRYLIC PAINTS Use a medium grade sandpaper. Sand piece. Now your medias will stick to the plastic. STANDARD SCISSORS Cut circles or shapes as smoothly Yes, plostic die-cu1 con be interior shopes: use o pope, punch, then insert scissors... Cut out as possible. Create fancy edges with Designer Scissors, -ie, zig-zag, etc. Small Manicure Scissors, with pointed and bent tips, are ideal for cutting interior shapes, circles and even small holes. pieces oport. Allow piece to complete the boking process, Step removed from oven, it con be shoped or twisted, i.e. o nopkin ring. 4: WATCH as vour SHRINKY DINKS shrink. Bake approximately 1 to 3 minutes. After pieces lay flat, allow an additional 30 seconds of baking time to complete the process. NOT WORK IN A MICROWAVE OVEN! is Place Shrinkv Dinks oieces. PRE-HEATED OVEN. SHRINKY DINKS WILL Note: When plostic 3: colored side up, on brown paper and place paper in tray or on cookie sheet. Put into oven ond pull Paint Markers are so EZ to use. Sometimes tips dry up, so purchase a Rectansle shaoe out of a Brown Grocery Bag and Occosionolly, o pens, coutiously reoch into your SPEEDBALL PAINTERS PAINT MARKERS 2: Cut Steo 5: Remove oaoer from trav or cookie sheet and lightly press FLAT with i.e. folded paper or a pad of paper - until pieces have cooled. (Approx. 15 seconds.) BEST GLUE: E6000 Industrial Glue. Comes in a tube and is clear. Sticks plastic to plastic or plastic to metal. Use double stick carpet tape and double stick foam pads especially when children are involved. GOOF-UPS: If , after baking, you are not happy with shape created, you can return SD pieces into oven. Bake until piece re-softens and lays nearly flat. (approximately 2-5 minutes.) ETCHING: You can etch designs into our plastics after baking or fusing. Use the tip of an Exacto knife or Etching tool used for scratch art. Sweep artist pencils across surface of scratched areas. Wipe pencil dust off. Seal with clear acrylic. PAPER PUNCH Remember - holes Shrink too!! Punch severol times if o lorger hole is needed. A standard sized Paper Punch is ideal for most projects. Use a 7/8" Punch for jewelry and button making. SHAPING: You have about 10 seconds in which to create shapes after removing SD piece from the oven. NAPKIN RINGS: Start at one end of SD plastic strip and wrap around a large spool of thread. Can also create chains Create miniature shapes like stars and diamonds with Designer Punches. McGill Co. makes them. this way. RINGS: Wrap around a marker or pen to obtain shape. ACCENT ANYTHING: Lay SD pieces on any curved object. Glue when cool. A can of soup works great for curved PUNCH HOLES BEFORE BAKINGI earrings. Printed in the USA CODE .'MIND-SHRlNKING IDEAS'' and Basic Information to EXPAND CREAilVITY SD - Shrinky Dink FR&R - Frosted Ruff N'Ready BW - Bright White BLK - Black BWN - Brown tfEM 200-6A /^ ^\ (d b) How OUICK & EZ much 1. Select a Rubber Stamp. Shrinky lnks hove 2. Use Shrinky Inks - Black for been tested or con FR&R, BW, and Almond...White use ony Alcoholfor our BLK and BWN plastics. bosed permonent 3. Use a sheet of glass from a inks. picture frame. Make a "spreader" by cutting a rectangle Cleoner ond piece from SD sheet. Reconditioner 4. Squirt ink on glass. Spread evenfor Shrinky lnks ly both ways with "spreader". works greot to cleon rubber ond 5. Place Rubber Stamp in ink - dab resoften ink, and look. Make sure all raised No need to cleon gloss... new ink resoftens. Con use stondord THE BASICS TRY ONE! will o piece shrink ofter boking ??? DO NOT set oven on Broill DO NOT touch pon Use areas are inked. 6. Lay stamp on surface of SD plastic. Apply direct pressure. Lift straisht uo. Allow to drv. 7. Color, cut-out and bake. this or SD ofter removing from pon. scole when you need DO NOT sei hot pon on counter or surfoces thot ore not heot sofe! to know finished stze pod ond stomping methods. I INFORMATION A tooster oven is ideol, but o home oven con be used. all SD edges are completely rounded or melted. (Takes 15-30 minutes - depending on your oven and size of SD piece.) Using a thick pot holder, remove pan from oven and place on stove top. Pan should be cool to the PYREX oT GLASS boking pon should hove o FLAT surfoce. A Sofety Rozor SEND A Blode con be used to scrope ond cleon pons. "LITTLE LETTER." 1. Use FR&R plastic. 2. Roll sheet into a standard Type o verse. typewriter. 3. Typ" on ROUGHENED side of A 5" x 8" size with plastic. rounded corners is 4. Idea: Add artwork, punch hole ideol, center-top. Add a ribbon or string after baking. Send o smoll mogA Christmas Card Ornament nifying gloss - odds to the fun! AMAZINC! PLASTIC 1. Some colors disappear when fusing. Place FR&R pieces COLORED SIDE DOWN. Colors stav. Plastic 1. Use Plostic a copy machine that makes about 10 copies per minute. (High speed machines get too turns clear. 2. Holes created with ROUGHENED SIDE UP. 0l K & B llulll0ulil0il$, ll|G. 7/8" paper punch will disappear. 3. Use scraps - even holes from paper punch catcher bake and shrink. Lay pieces on prebaked SD shape. Fuse and remove from oven. Try swirling colors with a needle...push down with folded aluminum foil if necessary. 3. Create images on the computer, then print out. Use copy machine to print onto plastic. thG negistEned tnademanl a Try larger punch. or hot.) Hond Sond White 2. Clean dust off plastic and feed or Almond SD sheets into copier by hand. Plostic (Hand fed end of machine) @tHBllllil 01il[s i$ touch before piece can easily be removed from pan. PRINT ON SD Use FR&R SD Create three different sized SD pieces: Big, medium and small. (Fun to use three different colors of SD plastic.) Layer cut-out pieces on top of each other. This will give you a size check as well as an overall view of colors and placements. Bake pieces. Cool. Boost oven temperature to 450'F. Layer pre-baked SD pieces on a GLASS or PYREX baking pan. Carefully put pan into oven to rebake. Fusing is complete when IMPORTANT Creote in well ventiloted oreo. 4. Can add Embossing Powders after removing SD from 450"F oven and plastic is really hot. Unending Applic ations ! ! o @ l SSg l( & B llllll0ulTloilS ll, lllc., P0 Box 223, ilot tn [ake, W 53064 . (262) 9G8-0305