FabrIc Painting with Starlights Textile Fabric Paint

I've now moved on from painting cushion covers to my own clothes.  I brought some fabric paints this week from Imagination Crafts called Starlights Fabric Paints.  It is a water based paint with metallic sparkles and has a binder in it so that the paint is washable.  

I have plenty of old T Shirts in the wardrobe that needed a new lease of life and now they have them, take a look see!

This was the first one I made using a stencil from Imagination Crafts.  I started with the white pearl paint then some cyclamen then a tiny bit of sax blue in the middle.  The colours blend really well together.

Here I used another stencil from Imagination Crafts which is one of my favourite stencils.

After trying the paints on a few T Shirts I got out an old pair of jeans and found my poppy stencil from Clarity Stamps.  I love the dark topaz (browny paint).

This is another favourite stencil of mine from Imagination Crafts.  I used three colours on this working them lighter as I got towards the centre of the image.  Again, I used dark topaz and then used some orange and gold.  I feel like sewing on some sequins in the centre of the flowers.

I just love how this one turned out.  Here I used two colours, silver and the sax blue.

And finally another favourite stencil of mine was used to decorate this T Shirt.  I used the sax blue and green which are perfect for peacock feathers.  I may sew on some sequins on this too as it will make it look even more amazing.

Butterfly & Dragonfly Cushion Covers

A new week has passed us by and I am writing about a new craft experience for me.  I purchased some lovely linen looking cushion covers from Hochanda recently with the intention of printing onto them using some stamps from Indiglo Blu and some of their fabric paints.  I also tried using my Luminarte Silk paint (all purpose paints) which work on a varety of surfaces including fabric.

I used Indiglo Blue's Raven Black Metallic Paint to stamp the lovely dragonfly, one of my own small butterfly stamps in the Indiglo Blue Kingfisher Blue Paint and the larger butterfly I stamped using the Luminarte Silks paint.

Before working with the paint I put a piece of 12x12 cardstock inside the freshly ironed cushion cover to protect any paint leaking through.  

I used some sponges to apply the paint to the stamp but it worked equally well and if I may say perhaps better, when applying the stamp to my craft mat area where I had some paint.  With this method your fingers kept clean and this is important in case you accidently get paint onto the fabric.

Anyone trying this for the first time, have a go on some scrap fabric so that you can get used to knowing how much paint you need on your stamp.

Here is the end result.  Some cushion covers for our home which I am very proud of and had fun making.