We wanted to make a matchbook out of our July fast pass. We saw the pictures in our head and everything, how fitting, right? Well, that project will have to wait for another month, because our friends over at Readymade Magazine sent us some very cool Shrinky Sheets and we couldn't wait to rip into them.

We may be crafty, but our drawing skills didn't graduate too far beyond fourth grade, which is one of the reasons we liked ReadyMade's shrinky sheets so much, who needs to draw when you can print what you want onto the shrinky sheets? This was one of the easiest projects we've done in a while, fulfilling the impatient ten year old in us who can't wait to see the transformed paper come out of the oven.

For this project we scanned our July fast pass, and copied it in several different sizes onto the shrinky paper- unlike other shrinky paper this one you can put through a printer. We have one of those fancy laser printers at work and it wasn't until after we printed our first sheet that we read the instructions and saw that the paper was made for ink jet printers. While it worked out fine for us, the printing was a little funky in some spots and we're happy we didn't jam the machine and have the IT guys ask us what we were putting through the very nice printer (and we swear we did this after work hours). We also printed out a picture of a creepy looking Barbie Family dressed all in red, white, and blue, you know in keeping with the July theme.

Once we got home we preheated the oven, and cut out our shapes, being sure to cut a hole where we wanted the key ring to go in the soon to be miniature fast pass. It literally takes 3 minutes for this paper to shrink down and turn to plastic, so don't go far from the oven. During the shrinking process the shapes curl up and twist a bit, once they're flat you know they're done shrinking. They cool off within seconds and are ready for you to make magnets, earrings or your very own fast pass key chain. You can write stuff on the back too - or draw something pretty if you fancy yourself a good drawer.

You can get the fancy shrinky sheets over at the ReadyMade store. And you can get regular old shrinky dink sheets lots of places.