What are Shrinky Dinks? They're
these funky sheets of plastic that you draw or print on, then
you bake and it shrinks to a much smaller, thicker hard piece
of clear plastic. It's very satisfying for some inexplicable
reason.
How To Make It:
1. Roll clay through pasta machine
to make even sheets. If adding gold leaf, keep folding clay
and rerolling until gold leaf is evenly dispersed.
2. Draw on your Shrinky Dinks and bake as directed.
3. From your clay sheets, make 2 rectangles approx. 12"
x 2.5". Stack these rectangles on top of each other but
don't press together.
4. Cut a window where each
Shrinky Dink will go. Be sure to cut window slightly smaller
than each Shrinky Dink.
5. Sandwich your cooked Shrinky Dinks between the clay sheets
so they're centered in the windows you've just cut.
6. Press the sheets of clay together to make a single wall
for the box, with the Shrinky Dinks sandwiched firmly between.
7. Carefully turn piece upright. Form it into a square and
join the edges well. You now have a box without a bottom.
Bake.
8. Add the bottom by placing your baked box on a double sheet
of clay, cutting around outside perimeter of your baked square
and smoothing edges for good adhesion.
9. For top, take box and place upside down (lightly) on a
single layer of prepared clay. With a craft knife, cut around
box to create your top piece. Set aside.
10. On a fresh sheet of clay, again
lay the box upside down as you did in the last step, only
this time, push right through the clay to form the inside
of the lid.
11. Lightly stack these two pieces
together and cut out a window for the top Shrinky Dink.
12. Insert Shrinky Dink between lid
pieces, press together, bake and voila, you're done!
