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

WELCOME TO VISITORS FROM 3CREATIVESTUDIOS

 GUEST ARTIST FOR JANUARY 2011 - SHELAGH FOLGATE

TOM - TECHNIQUE OF THE MONTH = TRANSFER PRINTING

OVER ON 3CS there is a FREE TECHNIQUE & an offer of a reduced price workshop - check it out - its FREE

Then please return here:  Below is a TUTORIAL on using TRANSFER CRAYONS

In addition there will be further tutorials on using TRANSFER PAINTS & DISPERSE DYES & FABRIC CRAYONS

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USING TRANSFER CRAYONS TUTORIAL

AT THE TOP OF THIS POST IS AN IMAGE OF WINNIE THE POOH

I found a copyfree image & crayoned in the colours, exactly the same as with normal crayons, colour within the lines.  Then outline the edges with black.

• The crayons can be shapened with a normal pencil sharpener or with a craft knife
• Make sure that you get rid of any 'bits' of crayon from your image especially around the edges - remember that EVERYTHING - even little bits will transfer & large bits will make BLOBs

FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS ON 3CS ON HOW TO TRANSFER onto fabric

TRANSFER PRINTING - WITH RUBBINGS

• Create a RUBBING BOARD.  TO DO THIS USE stiff CARD OR CARDBOARD. CUT a base board to the required size
• CUT shapes - use basic geometric shapes to start with - out of thick stiff card.
• GLUE these shapes to the base board
• Leave to dry
• REFER to the 3CS tutorial re types of paper to use for transfering or purchase my workshop

• Lay a sheet of scrap paper onto a flat surface
• Lay your rubbing board FACE UP on top of the scrap paper
• Lay chosen transfer paper on top of the rubbing board & using masking tape secure the transfer paper to the scrap paper
• The image shows the CRAYOLA crayons & the taped paper & rubbing board

For this tutorial I have chosen to use the following colours, in this order

BLUE random squiggles

 

PURPLE tighter squiggles

Black heavy squiggles, this is now defining the shapes

I then added YELLOW around the shapes









Below is the transferred image on the left hand side & the coloured paper (in reverse) on the right hand side

I have transferred to 100% polyester satin cream fabric

STUNNING & JUST FROM A FEW CRAYONS

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