Shrink Film - Clear Transparent 8.5"x11" Sheets, Design Your Art and Shrink It to Create Jewelry, Embellishments, Paper Crafts, Gift Tags, Ornaments and More, Pack of 50

This stuff works so well! It has so many uses! You can make earrings, keychains, beautiful flowers, tiny words and pictures to go inside resin.. all kinds of stuff! It’s incredibly durable. It’s perfectly clear and smooth. I love it.

When I first received the package, it looked like a bunch of old projector transparencies sheets (if any of you remember what a transparency is). It is 100% clear, unlike the original shrinky dink sheets which are already sanded on one side. The instructions said that you would need to sand it before use. My thoughts were "oh well, for the price, you get what you paid for... extra work!" :-( But I was pleasantly suprised. Sanding is not necessary. You can use it just as it is with permanent markers. It looks great - vibrant colors on a clear shiny background! Or if you want to, you can take about 12 seconds with a sand block to prep one side for colored pencils and/or permanent markers. Colored pencils won't cling to the smooth surface. You'll have the original shrinky dink look if you go that route. It cooks up a little bit thicker than the original shrinky dinks too, which is nice... The catch is that this shrinks about 50% (as opposed to 33% - 40% with SD's). All in all, it's definitely a bargin compared to buying the original shrinky dink refill sheets. Big savings on the price, nice results. Well worth it, especially if you have creative kiddies or a scrapbooking fetish like I do.

I priced the Shrinky-Dink brand shrink film and realized it would be too expensive for my large group of kids so I started looking for alternatives. This film by Grafix is perfect and priced very well. This particular film is clear so the resulting shrinky designs look a lot like stained glass. Grafix also offers white film and even film that can be run through your ink jet printer! If you've never used shrinkable film, here's a little tutorial. You'll need shrinkable film, permanent markers or colored pencils, scissors, some parchment paper and something to bake in. I use a cheap toaster oven that I reserve for this and for baking Sculpy clay. Optional supplies are some fine grit sandpaper for lightly sanding the film when using colored pencils, a hole punch, some jump rings and needle nose pliers, key rings and some adhesive-backed magnets. I cut each sheet of film into quarters because a quarter sheet is a good size for shrinking. Larger sheets sometimes shrink strangely and curl in odd ways. Have the child draw a design onto the quarter sheet film, trying to fill the film as much as possible because it will shrink by 50%. If their design is too small, it will be miniscule after baking! If you wish to turn your shrinky designs into charms, keychains or necklaces, you'll need to punch a hole with a hole punch somewhere in the design before baking. If you want to make refrigerator magnets, no hole is necessary. Then cut around the design as desired. Turn your oven on to 350 degrees and let it heat up. A toaster oven works brilliantly for this because it heats very quickly and has a glass door for watching the magic happen. Place the design on a piece of parchment paper and lay on a metal baking tray and place in the oven. Watch closely because the baking process is short! You will notice that the design begins to shrink and curl up. Don't worry. As the shrinking completes, the design will uncurl and become flat again. When it has pretty much flattened out, remove it from the oven. I use tongs and gloves for this because the plastic is very, very hot. Place it on a heat proof surface and slam a heavy book on top of it to make it completely flat. (Kids LOVE this part.) Ta da! You've made a shrinky dink! Sometimes with larger designs or ones with a lot of long thin sections, it will curl a lot and perhaps stick to itself. I have a chopstick I keep next to the toaster oven for intervening when this happens. You will see that the film ends up being much thicker after shrinking so it is no longer flexible. You can seal your design with clear nail polish or a spray sealant, if desired. Magic marker designs can chip a little if not sealed. Colored pencils seem to make the most durable designs, but you need to lightly sand your film before drawing the design. Sanding creates a tooth for the colored pencil lead to catch on. Sand lightly in both directions in a hatch-type fashion. Hint: Buy some metallic Sharpie markers even if you plan to use colored pencils. They add sparkle to every design and the kids seem to adore using them. They come in gold, silver and bronze. Any kid old enough to draw will love making shrinky designs. Kids 11 or 12 or older can even do the baking themselves with supervision. If you're looking for a fun art project to do with kids, I promise you they will be thrilled with this one.

We love this product! It takes a couple of uses to get the hang of it... We use it for creating pendants and other art/ mixed media projects. If you are old enough to remember the joy of Shrinky Dinks... They used to come in many cereal boxes when I was a child. You would color the prestamped designs with colored pencils... Those shrinky dinks were sanded... The colored pencil was able to stick to the surface because of the sanding process... It was fun... you could make them into pencil decorations or keychains... hang them from a book bag or carry them in your pocket... Remembering how fun they were... I went looking for a product that we could "design" ourselves... This works great with Sharpie markers... I have made several things and so has my son! I am looking forward to trying the sanded one they make as well and I am also interested in getting inkjet compatible (I think those would be sanded surfaces as well... and best in a different color.) . I am very glad they offer this on Amazon and am glad for the price... As I said... it is tricky... if it's in too long... it burns... it curls up sometimes on itself... you have to remember to punch the holes at the top before baking it... But it is so much fun!

3.5-4 Stars. I bought these to make DIY Shrink Keychains. They work well in shrinking and it's a good deal for 50 sheets I'd say. 3.5 only because when I shrunk one keychain in the oven, it rolled up and never flattened itself back. After that I purchased a heat gun and from then on it worked better. (But still time consuming and difficult to hold down while heating, getting each angle/spot evenly, and having to get it fully flattened by yourself) It could be the plastic itself or the different settings for heating; I'm not sure. Anyway, I think they are still pretty nice to use and you can find ways to make it work. (For me it was trial and error over and over, but I got the hang of it now)

A penas hace poco hice mis primeras muestras, estoy sorprendida de lo fácil y rápido que es hacer estos detalles, lo único es que, a pesar de ser con marcadores permanentes con lo que se pinta, este en específico, debes agregarle l final una capa de algún barniz, ya que sí se llega a desprender la tinta cuando disminuyen su tamaño. Pero me encantaron y seguiré haciendo más pruebas y proyectos finales y es muy problable que vuelva a comprar este material, incluso blanco o imprimible.

Love being creative with this stuff. Works well.

I bought this product to use with my Cricut Cutting machine and it is AMAZING! The product definitely shrinks more than 50 %, so if you need the end product to be a specific size, you may have to adjust the original size a little bit.

Everything came as seen in the picture and is very good for making little key chains!

love the product. now to learn how big to cut out the size i need