Decorating Fabrics

I decorated quite a few different fabric samples with three different stamps over a few days. My original kite-shaped 'cardboard' stamp disintegrated so I created two new ones, with different shapes, out of funky foam.



All stamps are with acrylic paint. I particularly like the yellow ochre stamping on the gold fabric - the effect is quite subtle. For a few of the samples I overstamped using bronze acrylic (see three examples below).

Selecting Fabrics

I had a good rummage through my fabric boxes and came up with a nice selection to work with....

Cut and Fold Shapes with Coloured Papers

Well this part I enjoyed doing on Christmas day - you might spot the gold Christmas wrapping paper that has sneaked into some of the squares! One piece of gold paper was a bit creased so I scrunched it up to give an interesting texture. It was quite fiddly cutting up tissue paper shapes but the card and paper was much more robust. The nice thing about tissue paper is that you can see the shape underneath so you get a third shape on display.

Cut and Fold Design Shapes in Black Paper

I really enjoyed this part of the chapter. I found it fascinating working out how best to cut the paper to get the desired shape. I particularly like the shapes shown on page 8 and would be curious to overlay this with the 'pin' image I commented on for Chapter One. In fact many of these would work well overlaid on each other. I used scissors for this activity but some of the cuts are not clean and so I will likely use a craft knife for the next part of the chapter.































Before I cut into the black paper I tried out a few shapes with plain white copier paper - three of these 'practice runs' have been mounted onto black card...

Design Sheets

For this chapter I used a scalpel, cutting board, scissors, ruler, set square, pencil, a gold pen and PVA glue. For many of the shapes I made a thin cardboard template to re-use as required.

DESIGN SHEET A:

DESIGN SHEET B:

DESIGN SHEET C: