Wednesday, March 14, 2007

My altered fabrics sooo far and


Just to remind you of our great trip:>
This is the cover of Kristi Steiners altered fabric book I am a woman who......in this fun freeing class Kristi teaches 8 techniques to alter fabrics...someone please add to the supply list dont bring fabric you cant paint on...I brought a bunch of Kaffe Fassets and had a hard time messing them up since I think they are perfect the way they are...

This is the only page that I have almost finished....its the collage page...I am sure more beads are coming...everything here is glued together...this page is inkjet transferred images with acrylic medium....you surely do have to rub alot to get them to transfer to fabric...the two on the left lifted and moved around...practice practice practice is needed here:> The one on the right did MUCH better....but i rubbed MUCH more...
This is a stamped page...we all had a great time using everyone's stamps...I blotted it with Sues rust colored stamp pad to get the odd color ...got better at it the more i blotted it with the ink pad...this was supposed to be done with walnut ink but i thought it was too dark..started to dunk it in my tea butt....there was none for once...This is another dyed and stamped page ...it was dyed with Kristis creative dye kit from Country in the City which is supposed to be great for dyeing laces and other fibers too...as well as paper...


This is the second piece of fabric that i did ...i call it the murdered fabric because I did everything to it trying to get it over the uglies...finally got decent overdying it and then I tried to mess it up again making sloppy stenciled fleur de lis...too much paint


This tag was made the same way and I splatted it with hmmm...well they have a tip shaped like a stamp pad inker...but makes these wonderful spots...why didnt i buy some while i was there....got everything else but these!:<

Dyed, dried out by the daffodils and then stenciled using a piece of plastic that wraps clementines....Kristis looked like fish scales but i was in tooo big a hurry when
This was done with gesso mixed with whatever was on the table...then you draw and stamp in it...fun technique

so many more pages to go....and beads to add and trims and who knows what else....after all i am a woman who loves to make art...any art ....

1 comment:

Lin said...

Maggie! I LOVE your road trip sketch -- and your altered book is FABULOUS!!!! I have done so many altered books -- they are great fun, aren't they?????? So much you can do with them .. keep posting -- I LOVE seeing yours!