Shrinky Dink Star + CTMH Card Workshop 7/8/14

A friend of mine told me you could use the heavy plastic from take out containers to make shrinky dinks.  This morning I decided to give it a try.  My intention was to add a little charm to a card I was making for the SPARKS Paper Smooches Anything Goes Challenge week 1.  *I took one of the PS digi stars, enlarged and printed it.  Then I traced it onto the plastic with a marker, colored it and poked a hole in the top for a piece of thread.  After finding my heat gun, I heated the little star and watched it curl.*  But it didn't uncurl and I was left with this dancing star (which will look good on a card, but not this particular one).

Now I had to go searching for the real shrinky dink plastic because I wanted to put a star embellishment on this card and nothing else would do.   Found it!  Started again * *  This time it uncurled.  Success. 

I started assembling the card.  As I was holding my little star to put the thread through the hole, the bottom tip of the star broke off.  By popping the sentiment I managed to hide the whoopsie.

(Stars and Sentiment are Paper Smooches Digis)

I am entering this card in the following:
SPARKS Paper Smooches Anything Goes Challenge week 1
Mojo Monday Sketch Contest 353
 
Crafty Sentiments Designs Challenge - Anything Goes
Fan-tastic Tuesday Challenge #43 - Anything Goes
Cards in Envy Challenge - Stars and Stripes
Loves Rubberstamps Challenge #111 - Red, White and Blue
Papertake Weekly Challenge - Stars and Stripes
Craft-Dee-Bowz July Challenge - Anything Goes with a Handmade Bow
Crafting from the Heart Challenge #26 - Anything Goes
Digi Makeover Challenge #148 - Anything Goes

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Below are the cards we made at Joyce's weekly CTMH card workshop this afternoon,  after we talked her into giving us a peek at the new catalog.   We ooh...ed and ahhh...ed at all the new products before getting down to the business of making these fun cards: