Rubber Dance Art Stamps - Blog

I was inspired by DT member Evelyn to take away the dust from my sewing machine.  She showed the making of a boxy bag in her blogpost " Something slightly different with Grungy Butterflies ".  So I decided to give that a go with the Doodle Flower stamp set and the  Vintage Script . I thought I was going to keep the flowers white if I covered it with a medium first. It helped a little, but color seeped to the back of the flowers too; that's fabric...  I tried to get the flowers white with some bleach.. that didn't work.. I thought maybe Twinkling H2o's don't react to bleach ...  I was a bit fed up with it, and decided to splatter the bleach onto the background.. suddenly white splashes appeared everywhere.  I think the reason it did not react to the bleach is because I ironed the fabric to dry after the inking. ... Propably the color went into the medium and made it permanent ... I like the splashe...

Hello lovely Rubber Dancer, it´s Evelyn  here today! This time I want to show you a DIY boxy bag I made. Yes, it´s fabric! You can use the Rubber Dance stamps even on fabric, it works really good! I used again the fabulous Grungy Butterflies and Small Grungy Butterflies stamps. I love, how it turned out! You only need a few supplies and it is really easy to make. May be you´ll give it a try? If you want to see how I made this, you can watch the process video. Have fun! You will need 2 pieces of fabric in the same size (mine were 40x25cm, about 16"x10"), but you can make it in nearly every size, it´s totally up to you! For the little handles I used a stripe of fabric sewn left and right. You will also need a zipper, I used a devisible one, it should be a little longer than the small side of your fabric, fitting yarn and of course a sewing machine. I started with stamping, but I would recommend to start with colouring the fabric. It is way e...