Spring & Summer Dress Up

 

 

Every girl needs a fun, new wardrobe for the spring and summer no matter what her age.  This is a great way to dress up those plain clothes and create new ones.  Plus, it adds a little sparkle to those bright sunny days. 

Supply List:

1 Pair Canvas Shoes

1 Canvas Purse

Stencil

Heat Transfer Pencil or other transfer pencil for fabric

Fabric Dries Clear Glue

Ultrafine Metal Tip

Spoon Man! Spoons

Glitter:  Sunrise(355) Ultrafine Opaque, Fresh Green (312) Ultrafine Transparent and Lemone (93) Ultrafine Transparent

 

     Instructions:

      Trace the stencil design onto both shoes and the purse using the transfer pencil.  It’s ok if the design is seen because it will be covered later with glue. 

 

Working in small sections, carefully trace around the outside and then fill in the center using the Ultrafine Metal Tip on the Fabric Dries Clear glue bottle.  Sprinkle the glitter on using the Spoon Man!  Spoon.  Allow to sit a minute for glue to set and then tap off the excess glitter onto a paper or tray to put back in the jar.

I like to find a way to use my tools in different ways. For the edge of the purse,  you can use a tear edger or a piece of paper that has been punched or die cut into a strip with a wavy edge.  You can, also, choose a different type of design such as a scallop or something you’d like to complete the purse edge to create your own tool.  

Place the tool at the edge of the purse and using the glue bottle with the metal tip, run a glue line along the tool’s edge.  Remove the tool and sprinkle the glue line with glitter.  Allow to set up a little and remove excess glitter. 

 

Allow all the glue to dry and they are ready to wear! 

Peg Rounds has been creating since she was a young girl.  She was always interested in art and any type of craft projects she could find.  As she got older, she stopped to go to college and then to raise a family. It wasn’t long before she’d pick it up again.  Today she is still creating as much as she can and enjoying it.  She is always wanting to learn new things in the world of crafting.  Her free time, when not spending it with her family, is used to create her latest works of art.  She has designed for many companies over the years some of which include Altered Pages, The Robin’s Nest, Amazing Mold Putty, Your Next Stamp Guest Designer and Keep In Touch Guest Designer, as well as many others.  She currently designs for Just For Fun Stamps and is an Invited Guest Blogger at USArtQuest.  She is, also, the Card Making and Scrapbooking Contributor for Create For Less.  She’s been published in Scrapbook News and Review and on Scrapbook.com and was a writer and proof reader for Oh Scrap Online Magazine.  Peg also enjoys teaching classes and is  working on setting up  classes online and you tube videos.  Be sure to check out her blog at:  www.pegscraftingcorner.blogspot.com. 

 

 



"Bling Sun" Fabric Art by Emily M. Miller

Fabric, Bling from Want 2 Scrap and Art Glitter…WAY too much fun!

Play Things
Art Glitter Ultrafine Opaque: #27 Navy
Art Glitter Ultrafine Pearlescent: #183 Blue Angel, #175 Retro Red, #174 Pink Cadillac, #179 Tang, #178 Duck Tail #186 Purple Polka Dot, #193 Martha’s Yard
Art Glitter Ultrafine Transparent: #93 Lemone’, #86 Angel Dust
Art Glitter Designer Dries Clear Adhesive (DDC) with Metal Tip attached
Art Glitter Sticky Tape
Art Glitter Sticky Sticks
Want 2 Scrap Bling: Swirls Finesse-LeCreme Pearls, Baby Bling Rhinestones-Brown
Laurel Burch Celestial Fabric and coordinating background fabric
Fabric scissors
E6000
Matte Board
Sharpie
Ribbon
Spray Adhesive
Walnut Ink Spray
Memories Mist: Iced Coffee
Maya Road: Bronze Thick Photo Edges

Choose your fabric selections and decide how large you want your piece to be. Then cut your matte board and fabric accordingly. Spray one side of the matte board with a spray adhesive and glue background fabric down with an inch of fabric overlapping matte board, flip over. As you can see I’ve started by gluing opposite sides down with DDC adhesive.

Glue other two sides down. At an angle, cut overlapping fabric corners off as shown.
Spray glue onto backside of focal fabric and center it onto your background. You’ll notice in the next shot that my edges are not perfect, but that’s okay, I’ll fix that later.

Start with your larger bling from Want 2 Scrap. These swirls finesse from Want 2 Scrap were absolutely PERFECT with my Laurel Burch fabric. And they are so easy to use. Just lay the transparent sheet of bling on top of your project to see where you want the bling to go, cut it to size, peal and place down!

I wanted to add some smaller bling that comes in individual pieces (baby bling!). To avoid going crazy I employed a sticky stick to do my detail work. Just push the end onto gem and slide off.

Push lightly in place and use a pin tip or fingernail to release gem. So much easier than going crazy trying to use your fingers! I have many other things that make me crazy so it’s nice to lesson that load.

Now I’m going to fix my edges. Unroll a stretch of Sticky Tape over your fabric edge and place sticky side down paying attention to getting your line straight. Sometimes my tape overlaps the fabric, and in a few spots there is a gap, that I will fix too!

Lay tape on opposite sides; remove red protective covering and lay tape down on other two sides. Then trim the ends to make nice perfect corners. Remove protective cover. Now you can begin to glitter! Spoon navy glitter over open tape and rub glitter into tape with finger. Tap off excess and do all sides.

Now to fix those gaps, just add a line of glue and cover with same glitter color. If you are not great at making a straight line…like all of us, dashes are a lot easier. Cover with glitter then go back and connect your dashes with more glue and glitter.

This is my Mess O Glitter! I use basket coffee filters to catch my glitter. And you see my selection of glitter is mostly Pearlescent, it works PERFECTLY with this fabric. As a matter of fact it works great with all of Laurel Burch’s bright patterns. A must have!

I glued and glittered in dot patterns that resemble the fabric and bling. I also made dots on the yellow background fabric. Fun, easy, beautiful.

You may be wondering why I'm using Designer Dries Clear and NOT Fabric Dries Clear. Easy, because if you aren't going to wash it, you don't need to use our Fabric glue.

I made another matte board slightly larger (black velvet) and ran a sharpie marker along the edges. Of course I slipped a few times and left marks on the white back side. So I sprayed it with walnut ink and a reddish spray ink. I’m quite pleased, it almost looks like wood!

Before gluing back matte board to front with E6000 I laid a ribbon loop in between. Let dry overnight weighted down. ONE LAST THING…matte boards are notorious for their corners getting banged up. Hammer down some metal corners and you’re done!

I hope you’ve enjoyed this fabric bling journey. I took tons of photos and could have made a slide show! I know, I’m a bit excessive sometimes, I can’t help it. Who knows, I may make that slide show some day. Check out my blog for more Art Glitter art and then some: blogbyemm.com