What's up today?

Well last weekend, I spent several parts of a day to read David Baldacci's book "One Summer".

A book our daughter read and left for us to read.  It is very different from his usual "suspense" books.  This was a real tear jerk er.  A couple of times I had to stop reading because my eyes were too blurry (tears).
It has a great ending making all those tears worth it.


I've also been playing with my tee-shirt.  I'm now at the point where I need look at it, and have it tell me what's next. 

So while it sits, yesterday I painted a silk scarf.  Sunday I drew the design on the scarf with a water soluble pen, then used water soluble"gutta" to create my barriers.  Yesterday painted it, using my new paints... Tsukineko Inks.  They worked wonderful on the silk.  I can see more silk painting in my future.  Had tons of fun!

Design drawn with "gutta"

After painting

Printing

Here's some of my progression on a Tee Shirt Challenge, two of my friends and I are doing.
The rules:  re-make a tee shirt into something fabulous.

This is my tee shirt before doing anything to it.

First I cut off the rib from the neck, then I cut off the sleeves

Using the stamps I just made I began stamping.  No particular plan, just what looked right to me.

Here I am painting one of the stamps.

This is the front so far.

This is the back so far.

Here is my inspiration fabric.  I will use some of this in my shirt.

That's it for now.

Bette

"Rubber" Stamps

Today I spent most of the afternoon making feaux rubber stamps to use on fabric.
I used self adhesive craft foam sheets.  First I adhered two of them together, both sticky side down.  That way I would have a sticky side to stick the shape to Plexiglas or more foam.

My inspiration came from some printed mesh fabric I just received.




Just starting to cut them out



Here are copies of some of my inspiration fabric



All cut ready to stick on the plexiglas

all on the plexiglas

Some small pieces to use up

This is the inspiration for placement, when I started placing them the pieces kind of looked like faces.

These were the left over pieces, so I stuck them to more craft foam.

Now my next step is to print fabric with them. 

Bette