Hello everyone !
Keren here with you today and I'll be sharing a very simple way of using JOFY's new Christmas stamps and how wonderful they look painted onto denim.
I wanted a traditional look that would also go with the deep blue of the denim. I thought I'd chosen a great combo and then looked at Jo Firth-Young's scheme and it was nearly exactly the same!
All you need is paint and leftover jeans. A little thread for sewing and anything else you'd like as embellishments.
This technique is very simple. If you want something that'll be washed regularly then it would be worth mixing a fabric medium in with the paint, but as my stocking would rarely be washed, I just needed to stamp and lay down an initial layer of white to act as a background for the colour or the colours wouldn't have been quite so vibrant without lots of layers of paint.
A white chalk pen is useful with denim but do you remember the anti-static bags for heat embossed powder some of us have in our stashes? They make excellent dabbers over shapes and if only I had known where mine was!
If your fabrics are tired or stretchy, adding a little starch will help the finished look and also enable you to stamp more clearly. I used Stazon for a crisp outline.
Now it's time to paint. You may need two layers of white and a couple of layers of the colours, depending on whether you're using opaques or semi-opaques / translucents.
Leave the paint to dry for a few hours and then you want to dry press the reverse of the painted side to set the paint. Now to sew..
I set the stamped fabric that was going to be a tag into an hoop so it was easier to sew.
The details are textural- eyelets, twine, ribbon, stitching and Jo's beautiful stamped images. It's easy to glue the stamped sentiments onto the tag.
I did wish I'd done a brighter colour for the quilting and the tags are definitely something I'm going to repeat. They're a quicker make than a stocking and if you use erasable ink, the tags are ultimately reusable.
Have you tried upcycling anything you don't wear anymore. Have a go at stamping and painting on fabric; it's really rather addictive !
Have you tried upcycling anything you don't wear anymore. Have a go at stamping and painting on fabric; it's really rather addictive !
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