Thursday, February 10, 2011

Good ol' college try

The 3CS has a number of challenges that I like to participate in. I am hampered a bit by being on dial-up so some tutorials can be an issue. The Technique of the Month is transferring colour and I tried a few things but I need to get the transfer medium. My trip to the city has been delayed so I won't meet that deadline but I did do some 'fooling around' with various things including a new box of crayons.

That didn't work so I wondered 'what if...'

I found the Faber-Castell PITT artist pen worked the best on fabric and I drew a border and then filled it with a little scene. Now this may not look like much but I'm actually impressed. Then I got my iron working on the fabric to heat it up and used several of my 64 colours to add some colour. I ironed the cloth with parchment paper between the iron and my drawing. Kinda cool! oh, I guess it should be, Hot Stuff! lol

The Flicker Group for the TOM is here.

The 3CS Colour palette challenge is a favorite combo of mine. I wanted to revisit some curved piecing so I dug out some old class notes. I did these with no pinning.

This is a little preview and I should have my spring place mats ready for viewing tomorrow.

5 comments:

Createology said...

I just love your little house drawing. It looks like it has a lot of color texture. You amaze ne with all the projects you do in a day. Happy creating...

Lesly said...

Hooray for no pinning! Looks great, Elle!

Vicki W said...

When I was playing around with the transfer stuff I found out that I really needed to leave the iron in place for a minute or so to get the color to transfer well. I love what you are doing with the palette colors!

Annie Crow said...

It's neat to see the whole variety of what you do -very inspiring! I especially like the books.

Annie Crow said...

Well, and the quilts too, of course.