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.

Do you remember the old Reese Cup commercial when two people bump into each other which causes the chocolate bar to fall into the jar of peanut butter?  That was almost what it was like at my house when I was picking up my daughter’s jeans and then I saw one of my new stencils.  What if I put them together?  This is what happens!

Here are the steps:

I used Julie Fei-Fan Balzer’s stencil put the first layer of paint on (this was just craft paint – I figure it will wash just fine since any time I spill paint on my clothes it never comes out).  Here it is with almost all the raindrops on it.