Stamped Fabric Bird

Hello! 

Today we are sharing with you another project from our archives 

That was created by a Guest Designer: Karen Lackey 

Here she created a vintage inspired stamped fabric bird! 

Enjoy!

Supplies needed:

1. Small Steampunk Bird- Rubber Stamp
2. Tea dyed cotton muslin
3. Sewing machine
4. Brown stamping ink
5. Hot Iron
6. Polyester fiberfill 

Stamp the bird on doubled tea dyed muslin with a brown ink pad.Heat set the design with a hot iron.

Turn the fabric so the right sides are together. Using a small stitch, sew a  ¼" seam around the bird.

Cut around the bird and cut a small slit in the backside.

Turn the piece right side out, pulling the fabric through the slit.  Use a dowel or knitting needle or the end of a paintbrush to push out the points, taking care not to poke through. It helps to have a slim but blunt end on the tool you use.

For a small piece like this, you want to pull out small tufts of the fiberfill and use your tool to help you get it through the slit. Fill the far corners first. Then compress it by pushing with your tool.  Some brands of fiberfill come with a little wooden tool that really helps. If you are using a knitting needle, using the back end can help here. Just don’t stuff it so full that you can’t pull the fabric together at the slit.

When you’re happy with how it looks, stitch the slit together with thread that matches your fabric.

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Stamped Fabric Book

Hello! 

Today we are sharing with you a project from our archives 

That was created by a Guest Designer: Karen Lackey 

Here she created a vintage inspired stamped fabric book. 

Enjoy!

Supplies needed:

1. Wing It - Rubber Stamp Set.
2. Lace place mat
3. Pink gauze fabric
4. Muslin fabric and batting
5. Dark ink pad
6. Hot iron
7. Sewing machine
8. Metallic embroidery floss
9. Pink seed beads
10. Pocket watch charm
11. Vintage trim to tie the book.

Begin by stamping onto the muslin fabric. When the ink is dry, run a hot iron over it to heat set the image. 

 Pin the stamped muslin onto the batting and sew together using your sewing machine,

Use the metallic thread to embellish the angels wings. Then finish with the seed beads and pocket watch charm.  

Sew your lace place mat onto your gauze. Keeping book open, sew the angel piece onto the front of the book, then hand stitch the trim for a closure. 

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Alice in Wonderland Scarf

I made a scarf that can also be worn on the Mad Hatter’s Hat!


I used Alice Art Rubber Stamps and Alice 2 Art Rubber Stamps  from Sin City Stamps for the embellishments.   If you are an Alice in Wonderland fan, you will love these new stamps!

Here’s how I made the scarf.

Supplies:
Ink (I used ColorBox Chalk Ink in dark brown.)
Muslin (Mine was prewashed and tea dyed.)
Lace
Trims
Thread

I started by choosing some pretty blue lace wide enough for a scarf and cutting a length that would yield 64” after hemming.  I hemmed the ends.


I stamped the images onto the muslin with the Chalk Ink.  When it dried, I heat set the ink with my iron.  For more information about stamping on fabric, read this post.


I used a rotary cutter to trim around the images.


I chose some trims.  I didn't end up using everything in the picture.


Then I pinned the trim and the image to the scarf, stitched them in place, and trimmed them.



You can wear it as a scarf.  Here it is on a dressform.


Or you can wrap the scarf around your Mad Hatter’s Hat.


I really like it on my Mad Hatter Hat!

Alice in Wonderland Necklace with Stamped Silk Sari Ribbon

This is Karen from Starshine Salon.

I tried stamping on silk sari ribbon for the first time a couple of weeks ago, and I liked the results so much that I decided to try it again.  I love the quality of Sin City Stamps; the fine details of the images really come through, even on fabric.

My necklace was inspired by Alice in Wonderland, and features a magical bottle filled with a mysterious substance and labeled, “Drink me.”  In this case, the “tag” was a spoon charm.

I used the stamps to add dimension to the sari ribbon and to tie the colors together.   I chose the ribbon I wanted to use, then cut and pressed it.  These are the pieces of silk left over after the saris are made.  The strips vary in width and arrive crinkled.  I wanted them flat so I could stamp on them.

When Alice drinks from the magical bottle, she wants to use the golden key to get into the beautiful garden.  But when she shrinks, she finds she has left the key on the table and can’t get to it.  Now she has all the keys she needs, right on her necklace!  I used the keys image from the Sin City Stamps Dressforms.  I stamped the image with Colorbox Chalk Ink in Warm Violet, and heat set it with my iron after the ink dried.

The bottle had some writing printed on it, so I sanded it to remove the printing.  Then I added a loop with some wire.  I put a little coarse glitter inside and added a cork.

I stamped “Drink Me” onto the spoon, added some black Gilder’s paste to make the letters stand out, and applied violet Gilder’s paste to the handle.  When the Gilder’s paste had set, I added some wax, which I buffed after it dried.

I stacked the sari ribbon, trimmed it, then looped the ends through large jumprings, turned the edges under, and sewed it closed.

Then I put a few stitches through the ribbon to cinch it up.  This gives a nice place in the center for the focal to hang, and keeps the piece from looking like a big scarf.  I added jumprings around the cinched areas.

Finally, I added chain.  Now I have the perfect thing to wear for my Wonderland Tea!

Alice in Wonderland from Sin City Stamps

This is Karen from Starshine Salon.

Sin City Stamps has two new plates of Alice in Wonderland stamps!  You can see them here and here.

I decided to create a Wonderland Tea with mine.  The first piece I made was a centerpiece for the table.


I started with a vintage linen centerpiece.  I love the lace border!  A little dip in tea hid some stains, and I decided to place my panels so that one of them would hide the hole.


I stamped the images onto tea dyed muslin.  Stamping on fabric usually works best with tightly woven fabrics.  For this project, I chose a piece of muslin that was smooth but not stiff, so that it didn’t interfere with the soft hand of the linen.  I used Colorbox Chalk Ink in Dark Brown and heat set the images with an iron.  For more information on stamping on fabric, check out this post.

I like to stamp onto a piece of fabric that I can discard if the image doesn’t come out well.  I also like to stamp on a piece of fabric that is larger than I think I will need, and then trim the fabric later.  That way if I stamp crooked or off-center, I can make up for that when I trim the piece.



I trimmed all the pieces to the same size using a rotary cutter.  Then I pinned them in place on the centerpiece.



I stitched each piece down with a zigzag stitch.  Then I added vintage lace around each panel.







I’m still contemplating what other pieces I will make for my Wonderland Tea.  I hope you’ll check back and see what I come up with!

Repurposing rubber stamp text

This is from Karen at Starshine Salon.

The rubber stamp sets from Sin City Stamps are a really great deal, even if you don’t plan to use every stamp on the sheet.  And here's a way to use some of those phrases that aren’t quite right for your current projects.  I made these pendants using only single words from phrases in Sin City stamp sets.

 

If you want to use part of a phrase, you have several options.  You can stamp the image and cut away the part you don’t want.  You can mask the part you don’t want.  Or, if you are using unmounted stamps, you can cut out the part you want to use and stamp only that part!  And you can still use the whole phrase later.

I wanted to embed words in resin in the bowls of some brass spoons.  Some were part of longer phrases, so I just cut out the part I wanted from each.  Then I adhered them to an acrylic block with double-sided tape and stamped them with ColorBox Chalk Ink onto scrapbook paper.

 

“Believe” comes from the Angel of Time set.  I took “love” from the Dress Forms set and the Wings of Love set.  And “passionate” comes from the Rosette Hearts set.

I cut the words out and dabbed the edges of the rectangles with Chalk Ink.  Then I coated the front, back and edges with Mod Podge.  This seals the paper so the resin doesn’t soak through, leaving the paper opaque.

I prepared the spoons, adding patina, waxing and burnishing them, and punching holes for jump rings.  I cut the large ones in half and turned part of the stem into a bail for hanging.

Then I mixed ICE Resin according to the package directions.  This is a wonderful product!  You mix the two liquid components and they cure into a clear, permanent solid.  If you have been wanting to try resin but have been hesitating, I recommend you take the plunge! 

I floated the slips of paper in the resin.  I added some sead beads to one spoon.

To make sure the resin was level, I rolled up some aluminum foil and set the spoons on it.

Then I just let the resin cure!

These spoons are now pendants, and some of them have already gone to new homes!  And I was able to use stamps I thought might never be used!

Fabric Cuff with Sin City Stamps

I am so happy to be here as a Guest Designer for Sin City Stamps!

You can make the perfect fabric panel for your sewing projects by stamping on fabric! For this Steampunk Chic Fabric Cuff, I used the largest image from Sin City Stamps' Time set.

I stamped the image with ColorBox Chalk Ink in Warm Violet onto tea dyed muslin.  Tightly woven fabric gives the clearest image. I like Chalk Ink, but India ink works well, too.  I heat set the ink with a hot iron.  For more tips on stamping on fabric, read this post.

You can see that the image didn't come out clearly all the way around.  Sometimes you can get a clearer image by putting a piece of craft foam under the fabric, but this result was perfect for this project because I wanted a soft look.

I gathered a few tea dyed doilies to consider as possibilities for the base of my cuff.  I wanted to make an extravagant cuff, so I chose large, lacey one.

I folded the doily in half, then pulled the top layer back a little bit to reveal both layers.
I planned the length of my focal section to make sure I could stitch it to the fuller portion of the doily.  If you stitch your panel to a weak part of the doily, the whole piece will be weak.

I wanted the panel to have finished edges, so I added a seam allowance when I cut it out.  I cut out a piece of plain muslin the same size.  I decided to add a little ruffle with a piece of silk sari ribbon.  I pinned the ribbon to the right side of the printed panel.  I didn't measure the pleats for the ruffle.  I just marked the halfway point and then folded the ribbon over to make the pleats.

Then I pinned the plain piece of muslin to the top of that and stitched all the way around it with my sewing machine.  You can leave an opening for turning, but I like this method when it’s okay for the back to have a slit.  After stitching all around, make a small slit in the piece that will be the back, and turn the piece through that.  You can stitch it closed, or leave it as is if the back won’t show.
I added the gears to the panel.

These were raw brass gears that I treated to add a little patina.  I learned this method from Brenda Sue Lansdowne of B'Sue Boutiques.  I adapted it a little to use the items I had on hand.  I washed the pieces with warm water and soap to remove residual machine oil from the manufacturing process.  Then I soaked the pieces in a combination of water, white vinegar and table salt for an hour.  Then I removed them from the mixture and put them in the oven at 450 degrees for an hour.  When they were cool, I rinsed them off.  You can add colorants at this point, and seal the pieces, but I left these the way they were.

Each gear has a hole in the center, so I sewed them to the panel the same way you would sew on a sequin.  Bring your thread up from the bottom, go through the hole of the gear, go through an anchor bead (mine are brass), sew down through the hole of the gear.  I did that twice for each one and then knotted the thread on the back.

Next, I pinned the panel to the doily and stitched them together.

There are many different closures you can use for a fabric cuff.  For this one, I chose a large snap because it was simple and I did not want to overlap the ends of the cuff.  I put one side of the snap on each side of the doily, and when you snap it together, the edges of the doily drape down.

I hope you will make your own fabric cuff.  Please let me know if you have any questions.