STAMPtember® Feature: Carabelle Studios!
Hi friends! Thanks for stopping by to our last STAMPtember® feature of 2016! What a fun ride it has been! Please welcome back special guest designer Birgit Koopsen, who is representing the fabulous brand, Carabelle Studio! Her fun project is a great example that stamping can go beyond the page! Read on to be inspired!
It’s end of September and officially fall started, but I’m not completely ready to give up on summer yet so I decided to create some Ibiza-style jewelry reminding me of sunshine, beach and freedom and add some of that lovely summer feel-good to my outfit!
Here’s how you too can create your own fun charms:
You need:
Shrink plastic (I used transparent because then the charms look good on both sides), your favorite stamps, acrylic block, Stazon, Winsor & Newton Pigment Markers, a Crop-a-Dile or eyelet tool, scissors, a paper piecer, flat pliers, a heatgun or an oven, a bracelet, necklace or earrings (ready bought or hand made) and some small jewelry rings.
Steps:
Stamp the desired images on the non-glossy side of the shrink plastic using a permanent ink. When choosing your images keep in mind that they will shrink to appr. 1/3 of the original size. Let the ink dry well. Coloring right after stamping may smudge the ink.
Color the images with Pigment markers and let dry well again. Then cut out the shapes, make a hole using a Crop-A-Dile or eyelet tool. Don’t make the hole to small as this will shrink too. Use a heatgun or place the shapes in the oven to shrink. Follow instructions on the packaging. The final shapes will be 3 times as thick as the originals.
I used a heatgun to shrink the plastic. While it shrinks the plastic starts to curl and move. I used a paper piecer to gently keep the plastic in place. At the end, when the plastic had shrunk completely but was still hot, I placed an acrylic block on top and pushed it down so my charm turned out really flat.
Add small rings through the holes and apply the charms to bracelet, necklace or earrings.
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It’s been so fun to see all of the Stamptember products and how they’ve been used! The blog has been great and this is just another example of a fun idea and thinking outside the box. Thanks for a wonderful month!!
It’s been an exciting month full of amazing new stuff!! This was my first stamptember and I can’t wait for the next stamptember!!! Loved every single product released this month!
I look forward to Stamptember every year and this year did not disappoint! So many fabulous exclusives, kits and sales. The Mostly Ghostly kit and Amy Tangerine lettering class was the icing on the cake for me! Thank you!
Love the Carabella Studio stamps too!
Looks like fun to create these beautiful bracelets!
Thanks for a wonder-ful STAMPtember!
I’ve never heard of Carabelle Studios, thanks for doing a feature on them! What a fun post to have gone through!
wow Awesome use if stamp to create unique n trendy jewelry !!
Carabelle has some awesome stamps – and I wish stamptember went straight in to Stamptober… On the other hand every day is a stamping day in my house and SSS keeps bringing wonderful inspiration!
I’m so glad I found this site. After doing my research, I decided to go with Simon Says Stamp for a monthly card making subscription and I’m having so much fun playing with the latest kit and checking out this blog for awesome ideas! I’m new to the card making realm of arts and crafts and I am finding so much inspiration here! Keep it coming!
Very nice project! I love the earrings!
Cristina
thehouseoftheblackbirds.blogspot.it
These Carabelle Studio stamps are gorgeous!
Gorgeous patterns and I love the subtle tones of colour with the markers. Wonderful stamps!
Wow! What a fantastic month. I just want to say I have some stamp-n-store pieces, and I adore them. Keeps me so organized. :)
Very lovely pattern , love them all so unique and creative,
What a cool idea
It has been a great month full of new ideas and products! Today I remembered how much fun one can have with shrink plastic :)
Oh this is a cool cool cool idea!
Fabulous projects, so colorful and FUN! I {heart} Shrinky Dinks lol
Love shrink art projects, it is absolutely limitless to what you can do today with so many stamps. Birgit’s ‘charms’ are adorable!
Thanks to SSS for the great month with tonnes of inspiration and great products!
Fun and so inspiring
Very pretty and love that you can make anything from your stamp stash
love those charms, so clever and beautiful!
Loving all of the Stamptember products! I fear for my bank account.
Like all things heart-shaped. Wonderful jewelry creations. This has inspired me to use the shrink plastic I bought awhile ago & not used.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
OMG!! I NEED those earrings LOL Such lovely handmade jewelry!
Such beauttiful creativity using stamps, gorgeous work, love it!!!
The creativity & talent is simply endless! I have enjoyed Stamptember a lot!
O how cool! It’s always nice to see new types of projects!
Awesome shrinky charms!
Beautiful jewelry with shrink plastic.
Your talent truly is endless Brigit!!! Awesome fun and funky projects! So in awe of your creativity!
I LOVE LOVE LOVE o use my Stamps in different ways!! Shrink Plastic is one of my FAVORITES!! =) THANKS for sharing and have a FABULUS WEEK!! =)
I’m totally loving this month long extravaganza! Soooooo many ideas and sooooo many awesome new products! I want/need them all :)
FUN-tastic idea. Never ventured into this kind of art with
stamps before. Thanks for introducing us to companies
like this with artsy-beautiful stamp collections
Cheers
Amazing jewelry. I can’t believe it was made out of shrink plastic. Well done.
Nice! Clever idea! :) :) :)
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What a fun project this would be.
This has been my first STAMPtember and I have enjoyed it throughly! What a wonderful celebration! Now I can’t wait until next year!!
Beautiful earrings! Don’t care much for expensive metals or jewels but feathers? YES! My own creation? Even MORE YES!
I’m not ready for summer to end either! Love how you found a way to remind you of it. Beautiful pieces!
Very CHARMing!
Very pretty charms – thanks for sharing your great process for making them !
Love the colors! What clever ideas. Thanx for a great Stamptember!
Such a fun technique, I love using shrink plastic.
Wow, these look amazing! This is a new company to me!
Wow this is a fantastic project, I absolutely love it! And the colours are amazing! I’d love jewellery like this!
Super cute! You’ve been a busy bee! These are all amazing and so fun! It’s been a long while since I’ve done anything with Shrinky Dink plastic and I think I only have white in my stash. So you know what that means… I need to get some clear sheets on my next shopping trip… thanks for the inspiration! :)
Thank you for this amazing Stamptember!!!! It was the first here for me but I can’t wait for the next!!!
Love so much these beautiful creations!!!
WOW stunning jewelry, I love the colors! What a awesome Stamptember too :)
Love the twist of using stamps to make jewelry. Great ideas and beautiful pieces.