I made this card for the new releases of Our Daily Bread designs. I started this card last Thursday after I saw the Ways to Use It challenge where we were challenged to use fabric. That had me thinking what would the bird look like stamped on fabric? Would the Prismacolor pencils work on fabric? Only one way to find out. I used to sew a lot, but hardly ever now. After digging around, I was able to come up with some thin, cotton fabric. As long as I was using fabric, I thought I'd go all the way and drag out the sewing machine and some buttons. So I stamped the bird onto the cotton using VersaFine onyx black ink. Just to be safe, I heat set it. It also looked kind of wrinkled but I drew the line at ironing. Sewing and ironing all in one day? I think not. Sounds too much like actual work. I spritzed the cotton with water, smoothed it with my hand and dried it with the heat gun.
On to the coloring using the Prismacolor pencils. Works great, I was happy to see. I used a Spellbinders rectangle nestie to cut part of the way thru the cotton. It was enough to let me rip the edges in a straight line. Then I removed some of the threads all the way around for the fringe effect. Did the sentiment the same way. Backed them both with card stock and used a feather stitch to go around them. I used larger Nesties to cut the rectangular layers.
After attaching the two patterns of dp to another piece of c/s, I stitched around the edges. I could not find the right color of buttons, so I took some translucent white buttons and colored them with Sharpies then stitched them on.
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Date: Monday, February 1, 2010 GMT Views: 844
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Paper: sky blue, red ticking stripe (Dasher from Melissa Frances), Sisters, Polka Dots and Summer Days Paisley(both are Wild Asparagus from My Minds Eye), thin cotton fabric
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Mon, Feb 01, 2010 @ 10:18 AM
"Sewing and ironing all in one day? I think not. Sounds too much like actual work." I'm still chuckling at this comment in your description because that's what I was thinking just before I read it! Your card is absolutely over-the-top gorgeous in every fantastic detail. I love this image and your card has me in awe... WOW!! ;)
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Mon, Feb 15, 2010 @ 2:50 AM
BEAUTIFUL!!!!! I love the mix of textures! Paper and fabric make such a nice mix...I need to try it. The chickadee is wonderful. I would never have thought to try Prisma pencils on fabric...Love the rich colors and all the many details on this card....buttons were the perfect embellishment! Love it all. Into my favs for future inspiration and a reminder to try something new! TFS!
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