Testing Inktense pencils on fabric

I decided I would like to make some bags from canvas to hold Christmas presents for family and friends, but I want to personalize them. As a quick test today I stamped a lovely dahlia and butterfly design from Clarity Stamps, using Stazon Ink on the canvas, then I none to carefully coloured it with Inktense pencils using yellow first as the palest colour and used that everywhere except on the black bits. Instead of using just water I mixed half water and half Jacksons Silkscreen medium being careful to keep my paintbrush just damp as I didn't want any bleeding of the colour, and went over all the ink and could see it changing to a much brighter colour. I added each colour in turn doing the same thing and each layer dried really fast. A few bits that were too dark I went back over with a lighter colour after it was dry and it worked. The last thing I did was to iron it, then expecting a real mess I dunked it in a bowl of water and left it while I had a cup of tea. I dried it and ironed it again and here is the result, definitely colour fast, although I haven't tried it with soap yet in the washing machine.

Clarity Challenge 37

Materials used:
Clarity Groovi plates and parchment
Clarity House Martin stamp
Pro markers
Faber Castell polychromos pencils
Watercolor background

Clarity Challenge 35 - Say it with Flowers

This is my card design for the January Clarity Challenge
Made with:
Clarity Fuchsia stamp
Tsukineko Brilliance Archival ink pad - Moonlight White
Clarity A5 Parchment
Clarity Groovi Plates
Faber-Castell Polychromos Pencils
Backing card Tim Holtz Kraft-Core Shattered Collection

Minion hat

Here is the last one, stocking fillers for grandchildren, I have 10 altogether the youngest two are 5 and the eldest is 21. I made two of these for the youngest ones. I found the pattern on You Tube, the name of the lady escapes me just now but if you search for minion hat hers is the first one that comes up. I've managed to make him look really fed up.

Watercolour - Unfinished failure

Hello again

Just two more pictures to post. I love watercolour but I have a lot to learn, any half decent ones I have given away and not kept a record of them I just have a few practice pieces that might end up in the recycling pile. This one is more of a sketch for a bigger piece. Yet again it's one of my grandchildren and, as we say in Lancashire, she had a real cob on. One of her friends had snatched something from her and the scowl was glorious, what you can't see from this sketch is that she is in a Disney princess ball gown, complete with tiara, which will all be in the final picture if I ever get down to it. It still makes me smile though xx

ATC for SAA Challenge

ATC - Lucy
Faber-Castell Polychromos
Reference photo by Janina Suuronen

 I have been trying to add more than one picture per post, but the second one is always cut off, I can't drag them, just resize and move them left, right or centre. Think I need read up some more on this. I wonder if you can make a gallery somehow?

Another day, another dollar

Hello
Having looked at other blogs this one looks extremely plain, still first things first, I will upload a couple more pictures.

Idris
Faber-Castell Polychromos Pencil on board
Reference photo by Gary Jones

New blogger

Hello
I love arts and crafts, and recently started to enter a monthly design challenge which is hosted by Claritystamp.co.uk. I noticed most other entrants did so by using their blogs, whereas I emailed my picture in and a lovely lady called Sazz created a temporary blog for my entry. I thought I better bite the bullet and have a go at creating my own blog, I will upload a few pictures of things I created last year to see if it works. (Just looking for a help button).

This is a pencil portrait of Enya one of my grandchildren.  I don't seem to have room for the other photos, will publish this to see if it works and take a look to see if you have to add pages or something. Take care xx