Princess Bubbles Creates

Thank you Judy Lovell for awarding me the Stylish Blog award.  I truly appreciate it.  You made my day!   I honestly don't really understand it but I do enjoy being told nice things about my blog.  Thank you. It seems that a little encouragement always comes along at the right time. Life has not been smooth sailing lately.  I hate to be a whiner so I suck it up and take solace in my art.  Creating comforts my soul and brings me peace. I am glad to have a blog where I can share my art, experiments both successful and not.

I was not willing to give up on the transfer I posted about below.  I made this transfer with fabric medium and it left a high shine which I did not like.  I decided to try adding transfer foil to it to hide that plastic look.  The picture did not work very well but really it is still not a very good looking piece.  I am still not giving up on it though.  Actually, I kind of like it when something doesn't turn out great because then I am not afraid to go further.  I am not overly attached to it and therefore not afraid to wreck it.  

I am on a roll.  Although this isn't pretty it is still an interesting transfer.  I used Sharpie markers and colored onto a transparency.  I painted matte medium onto white fabric and applied it to the colored transparency.  The transfer worked pretty well.  I think this method has possibilities. My apologies, this transfer was done with Textile Medium by FolkArt.

I have been experimenting with transfers again.  I was told by Sandra that an acrylic transfer could be done with a permanent marker and tempera paints.  I love experimenting so I gave it a try.  I was surprised that the purple Sharpie marker bled a bit when transferred.  I was also surprised that the regular ink pen also transferred.  See top photo. The tempera paint transferred well in some places but not in others.  I think possibly the paper wasn't stuck down very well.

The top photo is a transfer done with acrylic paint and a laser  copy.  I think it was quite successful.  Most of the toner transferred into the acrylic paint. The bottom photo shows a magazine page transferred to cloth with irredescent medium.  Not quite so successful.  I do think that it still has possibilities though.  It is a good start and could be stitched into or...

I have tried to make an acrylic skin a number of times in the past.  I was never successful as I didn't have the right substrate.  Yesterday in a workshop at Sandra Spagnuolo's she provided a 6mm vapor barrier plastic.  It worked great.  The skin pealed off it in one whole piece.  It's possible that using a good quality acrylic paint on the first layer made that easier.  I used cheap acrylic paint for the last layers as you don't see them.  You just need them to build up thickness.

I honestly can't help but feel I should be doing more beading on my bead journal projects.   But I look at it and think maybe not.  I had thought that I would do some beading in the white space outside of the snowflake but that is where I intend to do some quilting when I put these all together.   It is a constant struggle for me.