THE LIZARD ...TRANSFER PRINTING WITH STENCILS

 Hi.  Back at last with the next part of the TRANSFER CRAYON WORKSHOP

STENCILLING WITH CRAYONS

What you need:

Transfer crayons

A commercial stencil or cut your own.  Sometimes you can get these for free on card magazines

Thin computer paper 80gsm

Masking tape or sellotape

The stencil of the lizard has been cut from MYLAR.  You can do this with a SCALPEL or with a soldering iron

You must leave BRIDGES or the stencil will fall apart

Tape your stencil onto the paper (remember it will transfer in REVERSE) WITH MASKING OR SELLOTAPE.

The Lizard picture above shows the use of the crayons.  First the GREEN.  You pull the crayon from the stencil over the edge onto the paper

Look at the claws.

I coloured int he body to look like scales

 This picture I added the RAW SIENNA crayon & filled in the gaps left by the green
I coloured the eyes in RED

Here is the Lizard transferred onto polyester / cotton fabric.

How you do this is in the instructions on www.3creativestudios.com/blog  Follow the links to the FREE workshop

When you have viewed the workshop there are 2 workshops for sale on http://shelaghfolgate.bigcartel.com

Soon there will be an advanced workshop, I have held this back to allow you to buy your crayons / paints / dyes & play with them

The next part of this workshop will be with using TRANSFER PAINTS

So come back soon to view that

By the way my workshops now include 2 PDF files one with all the photographs & one with just the words to save you ink when printing

Enjoy your stencilling

Dont forget you can purchase products from http://www.colourcraftltd.com/

http://www.meinketoy.com/

http://www.thethreadstudio.com/

WHAT TO DO WITH THE COLOURED SHEETS

 Hi, welcome back.  Here is the sheet from yesterday all scribbled with the 'slipper' texture

I have a huge flower PUNCH, any punch will do as I am using 80gsm ordinary computer paper, it punches really well

 This shows the reverse of the punch, a flower & the MASK left from the punched sheet.  My punch likes to gobble up the paper when I try to remove it, so getting this mask is unusual.  Hopefully your punch wont do this, because there is something we can do with the mask.  Please return for that lesson :-)

 I punched out 5 flowers, notice how the texture shows on the flowers, so all the silly scribbles that I did earlier have now provided a really nice effect.
I glued the flowers to another sheet of paper.  This base paper needs to be really thin, even finer than 80gsm is a big help when transferring

 I also produced another sheet using the green & burnt sienna crayons

 After colouring, I screwed it into a ball, quite a few times

 Then flattened it out, by hand.  This gives a broken leaf vein type of image.  Now it is all soft it wont go through a punch

 So I hand cut leaf shapes.  You could draw around a shape, but I have cut them freeform

 I drew some stalks freehand from the flowers to ground them.  Then glued the leaves on.  Make sure that they look like they are growing.  This is a very simple image.  More advanced images can be constructed in this way.

Here is the image transferred to a cream 60% synthetic & 40% cotton fabric.  It has small holes in it & could be used for cross stitch, hand embroidery, machine embroidery or quilting.  It would make a lovely picture or book cover
All the details of how to transfer are on 3CS click this link, there is a FREE pdf file.  Further instructions are available from my shop
or my ETSY shop
Back soon with more ideas

TRANSFER CRAYONS - MORE IDEAS

Welcome back, I hope that you enjoyed the tutorial yesterday.  If you have problems finding TRANSFERRING PRODUCTS then please either leave me a comment on here or email me on shelaghfolgate@aol.com

TRANSFER CRAYON - RUBBINGS - PART 2

Grab a piece of paper & lets go on a hunt for TEXTURE

• Go around your home or garden & feel for anything that has a raised, bumpy feel
• Lay your paper over it & RUB the crayons
• I try to keep to HOT COLOURS or COLD COLOURS
• HOT COLOURS ARE - Magenta, Orange & Yellow & Burnt Sienna
• COLD COLOURS ARE - Blue, purple, black
• Green can fall into either as it is  limey sort of green in the CRAYOLA transfer crayons

By the way - this method WILL NOT WORK with ordinary crayons.

 Guess what this is?   It is the sole of my SLIPPER

Here I have rubbed over the slipper sole with magenta, yellow & orange

Check back soon for what to do with this.........