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Look Up At The Stars

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I really love this girl stencil by Julie Fei-Fan Balzer.  I think it is the flowing hair that I’ve fallen in love with…and I love that she got me using so many odds and ends!

The background was made while coloring ribbons and die cuts with spray inks.  I hate to waste beautiful inks so when I spray I often do it over a blank journal page. The purple tags were used to soak up extra inks from my glass counter top.  The stars were die cut using papers I made from my daughter’s homework.  You can see that post here.  I used up the last bits of a pink translucent glitter glue, the ever fancy Crayola brand (thanks kids for letting me use your stuff), on her flowing hair.

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21 Secrets Winner!

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Congratulations to AJ!

AJ says:
Hello, here I am jumping up and down and waving, please enter me in this fabulous contest :-)
Big love
AJ
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Sharpie Fabric and Lots of Layers

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While ignoring practical responsibilities I ran across a tutorial on using a Sharpie and rubbing alcohol to decorate fabric.  The gist of it is to write on fabric with a Sharpie then drop rubbing alcohol on it.  It spreads – and looks quite cool.

So I stared doodling and spraying, dropping, and smooshing rubbing alcohol around.  It make a colorful mess.   Alisa Burke’s Beneath the Surface class inspired the rest of the fabric.    I kept adding layer after layer.  I didn’t really like it in the beginning but then a few more layers and I fell in love with it.   Masking tape to make stripes, little round found objects to stamp a pattern, 3D paint to add some dimension, circles, and then stream of consciousness writing in the whiter spots.

 

 

 

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