Links You Might Find Handy for Your Journal Project
As you work on your journal, you might want to refer to the following videos/tutorials to help you with various techniques for stitching or using different media to apply colour to your pages and adding your fabric motifs to your journals. I've collected some resources I've found useful in the past and posted them here on one page for your convenience.
Embroidery
Mary Corbet's Needle 'n Thread "How to Videos"
A comprehensive page of embroidery videos from simple to complex stitches that you might find useful for decorating your journal.
Sharon Boggon's Stitch Dictionary (Pintangle)
Sharon's site focuses on contemporary hand embroidery and she hosts the Take a Stitch Tuesday (TAST) Challenge which is international.
Hand Embroidered Lettering and Text Tutorial
Mary Corbet also provides a 15 lesson tutorial on different ways to embroider text
Adding Colour
Make Your Own Liquid Ink from Derwent Intense Ink Blocks
This is a video by Derwent showing that you can finely grate some of the ink block and add water (it was suggested by a viewer of another video that distilled water be used because it did not contain any minerals or additives that tap water contained -- I can't speak to that) and create your own liquid ink. The video suggests spraying but I don't see why a diluted ink couldn't be sponged on as well. This would be permanent when dry.
Using Derwent Inktense Blocks and Pencils on Fabric
This video by Derwent shows how the colour from the Inktense blocks can be added directly to natural fabrics. If the colour is put on dry, a wet brush is used to dampen the ink and sink it into the fabric. Additional colour can be added to the wet fabric -- it will be more vivid when added this way. When dry the colour is permanent. You'll notice that bleeding of the colour couldn't be controlled when water was used.
Inktense Blocks over White, Golden Fluid Acrylic Stencil Shapes
This video is here only because I am always astounded by this lady's artistic skill every time I watch it. She makes it look so easy. I can do the stencil part. I have the spray bottle with the water and I have some Inktense blocks. I even have some pictures of flowers I'd love to be able to reproduce -- but that's where the similarity ends. Once the stalks were done, it would be game over ... but I do love to watch and dream. Enjoy the video. Maybe you have the skill. This would make an incredible journal page, wouldn't it?
Using Acrylic Paint as a Fabric Paint
This video is from Plaid Crafts explaining one way to use Textile Medium with Acrylic paint. Instead of premixing the paint and medium together, the official demonstrator, prepaints the motif area with textile medium and then adds colour, using the medium to thin the acrylic paint where necessary. The Textile Medium dampens the fabric, allowing a longer working time so different paint colours can be blended and worked into the fabric fibres.
Some Out of the Box Tips on Using Fabric Paints on Cloth
This video shows how to make gradations of colour by watering down paint, using stencils with paint, using opaque and transparent paints for effect, paint on dry versus wet surfaces and happy accidents.
Using Transparent Fabric Paints and the Sun
Same great artist, Lisa Walton, shows techniques using transparent paints to create interesting effects using the sun. This would make great backgrounds for journal pages if the weather were different. Just an FYI video.
Applying Fabric Motifs to Your Journal
Video from a Pellon demonstrator showing how to use the product. Tip: if you can't find the edge of the paper to remove it, use a straight pin to score the paper backing across the middle of the motif. This will give you an easier way to remove the paper. *Keep the "how to use" directions pinned to the remainder of the Wonder Under -- if you don't use if frequently you can forget what it is and how to use it.
Where it Started for Me
She is a British Textile artist who creates incredible hand drawn and stitched fabric and paper books. Her journals are amazing and when I saw her artwork I was inspired to try and create something of my own. I've had a fair bit of experience creating handmade books and journals but I've always had problems with the content and it was the content and techniques used that drew me to Frances' work. If you are on Pinterest, do a search of her work - you'll be inspired, as I was.
A bucket list wish would be to take a workshop with this woman -- the next best thing was to buy her books: Page After Page: Making Individual Books and Journals and Under the Cover: Paper and Fabric Books.
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