the multi-crafter

I had these make up brushes recommended to me by a friend and they are fab for stencilling ink and paint as the bristles are really fine.

Hi and welcome. I had a few requests from friends and followers of All&Create to show how I colour and stamp onto fabric. It is a passion of mine to create my own fabric and I usually start with calico as it takes the colour really well and isn't too expensive. When explaining about how I make it isn't always easy so I've taken photos to go along with the words. I started by wetting the fabric with a water spray and it is important to thoroughly wet it, it you don't the paint grabs really quickly. There are many different companies that produce fabric inks and I chose the Izink for this project. If your fabric is definitely not going to be washed you can use acrylic paint. There is a quick video showing how I apply the paint in the following blog post.  I usually leave the fabric over night I stencilled it with my favourite Lotza Dotz. A short video is on a following blog post. Next was to stamp the flower heads ...