We had another snowy day here where all plans were cancelled. It seems like February is making up for the mild winter we had up to now. So I did a little playing with surface design, mostly stamping.
These were very easy techniques and you may be very familiar with them, but maybe not, so I am showing them here.
This is a dense foam block, made specifically for this purpose. You heat the block either with a heat gun, which I do not have, or an iron. I covered the block with parchment paper then put a hot iron on it for several seconds, then immediately pressed the back onto some objects that have been placed on a hard surface. Of course this was buttons.
I used a red ink pad, the only one I had that wasn't dried up, so you will see red ink on all of these blocks. It was printed on light blue fabric. I think I want to make some note cards using this stamp.
On the other side of the block I used those big quilting pins with the big yellow heads.
I really liked these results. The first one was on turquoise fabric and the second on a mottled pastel print.
One of the cool things about these blocks is that you can reheat them and the impressions will disappear and you can do a different design.
I have some dense foam children's building books that can be used this way, too. However none of them give a very big surface, so I just did this one with paper clips.
I am trying to put together a quilt using one of the soy wax resist pieces I showed you last week so I did some more printing with that end in view.
Here I made a stamp by wrapping rubber bands onto a stamp with a wooden base. I've done this before and like the results. I brushed white acrylic paint onto the band with a foam brush.
You can see a bit of that piece I am working with. The greens are a great match. It was from my hand-dyed stash.
This was also made with a rubber band stamp, but I ran the bands vertically on a long oblong block. I was less happy with this one. I don't like the bright white blobs. They show up more in person.
This was done with bubble wrap. I paint the wrap with white paint and then press it down onto the fabric. I also tried using big bubble wrap, but that was not successful. I just got very indistinct blobs.
This is another one that I think will go with my piece. It is a color grabber sheet, the kind you put in the wash to grab any colors that might get onto your light colors. I try to remember to put one in the washing machine when I am washing my hand-dyes. I have a nice pile of them in many colors and I had two pinks that look good with my piece. I stamped them with a commercial "O" block.
Now I'm going to see how these pieces will work together. Stay tuned.
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Off the Wall Friday.
