Giving the old bag a new lease of life.....

Shopping bag that is..... :) he he

So a while a go i bougth some of these plain fabric shopping bags and until now i haven't really done anything with them.... they were a bit too plain if you know what i mean..

So thought i'd liven a few up this bag i used the baby blossoms stamp set with the Fun flowers Bigz L die

really cute i think..

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Baby blossom t-shirt

so since we found out that the new arrival is (apparently)  a girl i may have got slightly carried away with flowers and pink stuff ,  lets hope they got the scan right!

So during Sale-a-bration as demonstrators we get the chance to earn free products based on our sales and the new demonstrators that join our teams and for one of the sets i earnt i chose the Baby blossom set form the new mini,  isn't it pretty!

So i've been playing with stamping on fabric again, it's been a while...

and this is what i created it's going to be a little big for the baby but i was just practicing before i set my self loose on the baby vests :)

So since we don't yet have the full range of Stampin' Up! craft ink pads here's how i did it

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Baby baby :)

I just wanted to share this with you ( hopefully the receiver of these won't mind me showing everyone) but I made these for one of my friends over at In love with stamping, her and her husband just had a beautiful baby girl, I've left it a little while to show everyone because I wanted them to be a surprise for her.

I used some plain white baby vests and some white muslin's and my A Rose is a Rose stamp set, as we don't have craft ink pads in the UK (yet fingers crossed they won't leave it too long to let us have them) I used Dylon fabric paints which i had to mix to get the desired colours, I then painted the fabric paint onto the stamps with a brush.

It was really good fun, if you click on the picture you should be able to see in more detail, I even used my Stamp-a-ma-jig to position the layers of the flowers........... and as you can tell I was really pleased with the way they turned out.

I have added more tutorials to the tutorial site so go check them out I'll be uploading one on how to stamp fabric soon.

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Abi

T-shirt painting with Stampin' Up!

Thought I'd show you some fab t-shirts i stamped recently sorry they are a bit crumpled. :)

As we don't have the Stampin' Up! craft pads in the UK (yet ) I used Dylon fabric paint instead, I also used black stayz on too.

Remember to cover your surfaces and put cardboard behind the fabric you are stamping so as to not go through all the layers onto the back of the garment.

I mixed the fabric paints to get the colours i wanted in an old plastic tub using regular paint brushes, I did try putting the stamp into the fabric paint as if i was stamping normally but this was a bit messy and put too much paint on the stamp,

So to get a nice clean image i found it was better to paint the stamp instead with a paint brush,

Make sure that the fabric is pulled flat before you put your stamp down, then apply an even pressure to the rubber stamp, don't wiggle it! remove the stamp and allow the fabric paint to dry,

When the fabric paint is dry you can add other colours or designs to finish your garment/ project, when you're finished and it's all dry iron the design using a scratch cloth/old pillow case on a hot heat and your all done.

It was great fun and i really like the finished t-shirt's (even if i should have ironed them before i took the photo)

I used Unfrogettable, The Big deal alphabet and the bundle of joy stamp sets for these projects.

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Abi