Other: brads, image from wordle
This weeks rolling recipe tag challenge No. 26 had to include:
Inks: black document ink, Distress inks Frayed burlap, Tea dye, Old paper and Antique linen, Stazon Blazing red, Versafine archival Vintage sepia
Card: white card
Stamps: Alice in wonderland (unknown)
Other: Diamond glaze, watercolour pencils , fibre, gold stickles, gold pen, gold mesh coloured with Sharpies, Cosmic shimmer mist Sunlight mist
As some of you may be aware I have been mucking around with printing onto fabric. This is a photograph of Harry in the botanic gardens feeding a pigeon (peanut in his mouth). I altered the colours and made it negative (I think – I altered it so much that I can’t remember what I did!) then printed it onto cotton poplin photo fabric. This was cut out, frayed, tinted around the edge, ironed onto interfacing along with some fusible fibres. I found the self adhesive Fozz felt flower border a real pain to use as the backing paper came off in tiny bits rather than in one piece.
I could probably have just used the freezer paper ironed onto fabric for this as it does not need to be washable but I am just dabbling in new techniques just now.
It looks sooooo bright here but it fades a lot once it is printed.
Inks: green ink for around the fabric border
Card: Doodlebug Pastel plaid, BoBunny My darling cut out and My darling Bella
Other: Cotton poplin photo fabric, iron-on interfacing, fusible fibre, green/gold mesh, Kaisercraft Fozz felt Flower power lime, fabric flower trim
I have been playing with a few transfer techniques in order to get digital images onto fabric. The lady on the left (Mata Hara) was printed onto T shirt transfer paper then the image transferred to plain calico by heat transfer (craft iron). The lady to
the right (lady with rose) was printed onto inkjet printable acetate then the image transferred onto Gel medium which had been painted onto the plain calico. As I wanted both images to have a slightly worn look I added a grunge border (Jessica Prague’s) before printing. The T shirt transfer material can also be distressed a little if you tear (carefully) rather than cutting the image out and you can add a bit more distress by scraping bits away with your thumb nail. The acetate transfer came out very dark so in future I will remember to brighten the image before printing. Also the more pressure you use to burnish the image the more the ink smudges. The images used are from Art-e-zine
Mata Hara
Inks: Distress ink Bundles sage sponged on the edges of the fabric
Card/fabric: Green card, plain calico
Other: Decadry T shirt transfer paper, gems
Lady with rose Inks: Stampin up Not quite navy sponged on the edges
Card/fabric: beige card, plain calico
Other: seed beads, sequin flowers, Prima SIP embellishment, fluffy fibre, printable acetate
This weeks recipe for the challenge is:
Inks: memento tuxedo black, Distress inks Antique linen and Bundled sage
Card: white card
Stamps: The Artistic stamper Jolly day out, Flower soft The gate
Other: prisma pens and sansodor to colour, silver pilot pen, page pebble, silver brads, pewter eyelet, glossy accents
I have been having great fun painting and decorating found objects: snail shells and stones so if you want to join in pop over to Crafts by Carolyn in the Time to Create section TTC005 decorate it, paint it or alter it and show us your lovely creations (the wackier the better).
Most of the stones have been painted using acrylic paints but I glued on a picture cut out from a napkin on the bottom left stone (frog face).
Here I have used white paint and stamped small flowers and leaves then decorated the flowers with flower soft and lime stickles.
This weeks uk stampers weekly challenge recipe is:
I have used masks for the numbers, there is silver metal flake behind the stamped guitar on the acetate, and for the Paris part I have used the lyrics for Parisienne walkways by Thin Lizzy. If I was making this again I would use a bigger font and allow the text to go over the edges.
Inks: Stazon black, Memento black, Distress ink Fired brick, Barn door and Milled lavender
Card: white card
Stamps: Inkadinkado Rock star
Other: acetate, silver leafing flakes, white opaque pen, silver pilot pen, eyelet, Tim Holtz mask