Tomorrow!!! June 20, 21, 22, StencilGirl Products will have a Melanie Testa stencil SALE!!! 21% OFF Scroll to end of post for the discount code! If you haven’t already bought every stencil in my line, I wanted to let you know, it’s time to make a purchase or two!! I am writing the MotifContinue reading “StencilGirl Stencils (a SALE) and The Motif Maker’s Zine”
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(StencilGirl) Stencils used imaginatively, plus a sale!
StencilGirl Products is hosting a Cyber Monday Sale! 25% OFF! So please, be my guest! Head over there, but read my pondering too. 🙂 I have come to love using Frixion Pilot pens for creating and/or transferring embroidered designs and ideas. The ink in these pens is affected by heat and disappears (almost entirely), whenContinue reading “(StencilGirl) Stencils used imaginatively, plus a sale!”
Printing-Along Progress and the benefits in printing a Strike Off
I am creatively bamboozled by the Printed Village challenge at the same time as Carol Soderlund and I are hosting a Playful Fabric Print-Along. The two goals have collided. Really, I couldn’t be happier! Working in this manner is exactly how I was taught to design when I attended F.I.T. Stylists would gather a presentation of ideas and weContinue reading “Printing-Along Progress and the benefits in printing a Strike Off”
Announcing our first Playful Fabric Print-Along
I am considering printing enough of this print to make a quilt. Is it time to organize an online print-along?
Lace Swirl Quilt Top
This last weekend was quite productive. I took Bucket to my twice yearly quilt retreat and made great progress while #freerangetextileprinting. Then, I came home, switched out the newspaper and tinfoil I had been using to steam (this is a link to Pokey Bolton’s blog related to our Playful Fabric Printing blog hop-who chose the steamer as aContinue reading “Lace Swirl Quilt Top”
Considering Color and Placement
In learning to use the concepts Carol and I present in Playful Fabric Printing, I have done a lot of experimentation (we both have). In retrospect, as I ponder my approach to using dye paste and printing as is described in our new book, I would say, at first I was exuberant, I threw caution toContinue reading “Considering Color and Placement”
Printing away the day.
This is a day of off-set printing and I am using the StencilGirl L498 Vine Swirl to do so. As an aside, when I was at the Fashion Institute of Technology, I took a screen-printing class. I loved it. My first print was a design based on shoes and I got to cut rubylith, which is suchContinue reading “Printing away the day.”
Stencils, Stamps, Thermofax, oh my!
Earlier this week, I started a Speed Print job using my Lace Swirl Kit and I spoke about the difference between using the L498 StencilGirl stencil and the Thermofax screen to color the swirl portion of the design. So, today, I wanted to update you and show you the difference between the two. The StencilGirl stencil allowsContinue reading “Stencils, Stamps, Thermofax, oh my!”
Lace Swirl: printed & book giveaway winner announced
First off? Julie H, comment #37, won my giveaway copy of Playful Fabric Printing!!! I am waiting to hear back from her now, Congrats Julie! As you know, I have released a line of stamps and am working with StencilGirl products to release a line of stencils. I am selling Kits (and soon individual stamps) though myContinue reading “Lace Swirl: printed & book giveaway winner announced”
Melly Marks Kits, StencilGirl stencils and my new Etsy Store!
I am quite happy to announce that I have opened a store through Etsy, called Melly Marks Playfully. At-the-same-time? StencilGirl is releasing a line of stencils in my name!!!! In the coming days, we will announce a print-along in the Playful Fabric Printing Community Facebook page. I would love to print along side you as youContinue reading “Melly Marks Kits, StencilGirl stencils and my new Etsy Store!”
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