Stamping textiles

This is a brilliant way to use a rolling pin! Make this grainsack stripe stamp to use on textiles, paper, wood and more. No more taping down lines!

Learn to block print on fabric with Erin Dollar from Cotton & Flax!

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2019 Topic 16: Stamp Carving Well hello everyone, Keren here with a really creative theme for our new topic; stamp carving! I have to admit trying this once myself; years ago with a small rubber stamp. It wasn't the success I imagined it might be, and wish I'd seen some of these inspirational artists and techniques back then. Normally we'd start with a project from a PaperArtsy blogger, but I thought the perfect way to kick off the topic would be to mention Ellen Vargo who has created a…

Sometimes a girl just gets the urge to craft. At least I do. Sometimes I need to do more than just push pixels (graphics lingo) around a screen and actually get my hands dirty. I need to build, paint, or sew something!!! You know... like actually MAKE something I pinned instead of just pinning it. I had seen some DIY stamping tutorials on Pinterest & I wanted to give it a go. I kind of combined a few different tutorials, experimented a bit, and made a few changes to come up with this. I made…

When my friend Amelia announced that she was going to have a baby, I immediately started to print fabric to make a her baby a quilt. Her daughter is now an 18-month-old toddler, and I still haven’t gotten around to making that quilt. Thankfully, Amelia happens to be in my art ladies’ support group, which […]

By now my friend Kim and I made it a habit to meet every couple weeks for a fun project and I love this so much. This time we decided to make some napkins and kitchen towels. We got some fabric paint…

I've been seeing lots of lovely hand-carved stamps around the place lately and I thought I'd have a go at making some. First I did some sketches of things I'd like to stamp: Carved some of them out of some erasers I had lying around:Made some more (after realising I'd need to simplify them quite a bit): And covered my sketchbook with stamps:They're quite addictive - I had to resist filling up my whole sketchbook with different stamp patterns! Now to replenish my stash of erasers...and make…