Fabricated

Fabricated

Hallo Everyone!

I'm quite excited to have

Karen Gist here today with

another of her fabulous

creations so without further

ado, over to you Karen:

"Hi, I have chosen to decorate the Cotton

 Carrier Bag for this project. 

What a fantastic bag this is!!! 

Its made of sturdy cotton, 

is a good size and has a zip...I love it!!!!

To start - stamp the sunflower from the 

PaperArtsy set ELB24 on some scrap paper

and cut in half.

 Enlarge it by using a photocopier or your 

scanner software and print out. 

Now trace the image onto your bag. 

I chose the sunflower but you could 

use any stamped image this way.

Paint your image. 

You can see by my photo that these 

Starlight Paints are super shimmery! 

They have a lovely consistency for fabric too.

Punch shapes into some fairly stiff card

 to use as a stencil. 

I used a Woodware scalloped circle but you 

could use any shape you fancy.

Dab paint through the circles randomly

 over the rest of the bag.

Add some other circles by dipping a bottle top

 into the paint. 

Heat set all the paint using an iron then doodle 

around all the shapes using waterproof pens. 

(I used Uniballs for this)

Sew some ribbon and braid across the top of the bag 

and add buttons to the small circles and

 large buttons to the handles. 

Tie a length of ribbon to the zip pull and you are done!

Supplies used:

Cotton Carrier Bag

PaperArtsy Stamps

Starlight Textlle Paint

Ribbons & Buttons

Karen your bag is just

right for the summer.

Thank you very much for

a lovely project

I'm going to have to make one 

of these - I can just hear people

asking me where I bought it

Hmmmm..... pocket money opportunity?.....

'Till tomorrow

Mickie xx