"Sun n Moon" T Shirt Design

Hand-painted "Sun n Moon" T Shirt Design

All you need to create this gorgeous "Sun n Moon" T Shirt is:

Iron-on Image Transfer Sheets

• White Top (wash and iron without fabric softeners before painting)
• Black (or other colour of your choice) Pebeo Setaskrib Marker
• Iron-on Image Transfer Sheets
• Iron
• Sun n Moon Design Download
• Printer

Once you have downloaded the design, put an Image Transfer Sheet into your printer and print the design onto it.

Follow the instructions to iron your design onto your white top then colour with your Setaskrib Marker - that easy!

Transferred Design

Painted with Setaskrib Marker

Paint Pretty, Purple, Pebeo Ponies

"Purple Ponies" Wind-cheater

You can create gorgeous hand-painted designs for your kids with Pebeo Setacolor fabric paints and markers like this cute "Purple Ponies" Wind-cheater. I've included a PDF of the design for you to down-load and colour.

Here's what I used for this project (You can really use whatever Pebeo Setacolour and Setaskrib you desire):

• Basic plain colour wind-cheater (washed without fabric softeners and ironed)
• Heat n Bond Ultrahold  double-sided adhesive webbing (above) or other similar product
• A piece of plain, thin, white poly-cotton fabric (I actually used the back of an old pillow slip) make sure your fabric is washed (without fabric softeners) and ironed before starting.
• Pencil for tracing
• Pebeo Setacolor Opaque colours, I used Light Green, White, Bengal Pink, Garnet Red, Parma Violet, Butter Cup, Cornflower
• Pebeo Setaskrib Markers, I used all the colours from the fluro set (Pink, Yellow, Green, Purple, Blue, orange) and Blue, Green, Yellow, Blue and Black from the basics set
• Small round brushes, and one flat angled brush about 1cm wide
• Pretty Ponies design download
• Printer (to print the design)
• Iron to fix the paint when finished

My Pretty Ponies design was inspired by some artwork I did quite a while ago.

My inspiration

I have included it so you can have another reference for colours and shading, but really use your imagination and have fun. 

To begin the project download the design and print it up. Place your white poly-cotton fabric over the top of the print. The fabric should be thin enough to see the design right through and you can trace it with a pencil.

Design traced onto fabric

Once you have the design traced onto the fabric, go over the outlines with the markers. Don't worry about the colours being exact, use as close as you have, the Opaque paints will cover the lines.

Now have fun painting! You can mix the paints together to get a variety of colours and for shading. Mix them on your pallet or blend together on the fabric whilst they are still wet. 

You can use both paints and the markers to colour...

Use a small round brush for finer details and your flat brush for bigger areas...

Here I decided to add a butterfly. You can see where I practiced drawing it on the outside of the design, then I just drew it in with a pencil. 

I then went over the butterfly with white Setacolour paint. This help the butterfly "pop" out from the page when I colour it. The Sun was done using the Setaskrib Fluro Markers. Look how beautifully the blend.

Here is my finished design...

Now it time to use you iron to set the fabric paint. As per instructions on the packaging, you will need to iron for about 5 minutes.  Then take your Heat n Bond (or other double-sided webbing)  and follow the instructions to adhere your design to your wind-cheater.

Ta Da! It's done!

Book Week is COMING!

Good Morning!
 As many parents are already aware book week is coming like a freight train at us! where our little ones dress up like characters from the books they love and adore! My niece happens to be one of those kids! She ummed and ahhhed about who she wanted to be and finally picked a book character from a book that she loved, she picked Ruby Redfort.

This character wears a lot of slogan tshirts! so being the awesome aunty that I am, I handed over my stash of Pebeo Fabric Paints and Fabric Markers! So she could create her own costume slogan t-shirt herself!

I wont go into a huge tutorial as the photos my sister in law took are helpful enough! but the supplies are so user friendly that even kids can have an amazing time creating clothing items for themselves!

Other supplies I handed to her was a few sponges to bounce the paint across with ease, and stencils to help make text and images easier! Even though Amy is super creative having stencils to use makes it universally easier to create works of art without having any drawing skills!

She started by colouring in the bottom of the cupcake stencil image with the Fabric Markers - Setaskrib from Pebeo.
Then using a sponge she bounced the yellow fabric Paint for the icing.

Then waiting for that to dry a little, she also used the alphabet stencil to create her character's signature tshirt slogan - Let them eat cake.

 

She used a paintbrush for this step as she needed more precision on the letters! (I'm totally proud of her)
 Once the shirts where dry we heat set both prints with a iron on low heat to make them machine washable. (the red shirt was a practice one to get her confidence up)

Amy is also going to be embellishing the cupcake with some beads to give it a 3d looking quality.


Once her Book Week parade has happened I'll add a snap of her finished outfit at the bottom of the post! but for now here are the two finished shirts she made with absolutely no adult help! I must say they both turned out super!

The Fabric Line from Pebeo is so versatile for adults and kids! This post was to show just how truly user friendly they are! Make some custom shirts for book week if you a stuck for ideas, they are simple, fun and unique thing to do!

To all the kids, have an AMAZING book week parade!
Seeya next week, with some graphic cushion cover ideas!
Courtney

Jeans for Genes Day! Today!!! Fabric painting Fun with your kids!

Good Morning! Its Siann again enjoying Pebeo's fabric paints
What better day to have a ball painting your boring Jeans than on Jeans for Genes Day! Pick out your plain jeans and entertain your children for a fun time crafting. With the added bonus of creating a funky pair of Jeans that are a complete original walking masterpiece!




Check out How to Jeans for Genes Day by Siann Watts on Snapguide.

100 Circles in 100 days project

Hello it's Peta here again on the blog today.

As part of my study into art therapy I have embarked on a project to create 100 circles in 100 days. The idea of this exercise is to encourage students to start using a circle a day, a simple shape, to represent how they are feeling each day. The circles evolve into a beautiful canvas over 100 days and before you know it students have a wonderful artwork that represents their life over the last 100 days!

Currently I have a bunch of students from all over the world doing this project with me right now. I'm loving using my pebeo acrylic paints and setaskrib markers to work wonders on the canvas. Here is where I am at right now.

I'm finding that sometimes i don't get a circle completed because i'm waiting for paint to dry! However, I know what I'm intending to do so as you can see i've started whiting out some circles to use as a background for the days painting or drawing. I've also used to scraps of fabric so far and on one it has words that meant something to me on the day i glued it on the canvas and the other was blank calico that i then used my Setaskrib marker to write on as i wanted words rather than pictures for the days' circle.

You can vary the sizes and orientation of the circles. Yesterday i used a felt round pot holder to paint an impression on the canvas. I do this because I love tea and i often sit my teapot on something similar to this.

To get you started I have compiled a snapguide short course below. You can use any size canvas. this one is 26 x 26 inches square.

Check out How to Finish 100 Circles in 100 Days by Crafty Crusaders on Snapguide.

Have fun and enjoy your journey of 100 circles in 100 days.

Mix Media Goddess Holiday Project

This may look like a difficult exercise but it's actually isn't, and I think creating a Goddess portrait is an inspriring holiday project for any gal, from pre-teen to whenever. Most of this project can be done with stencils, although you could decorate with your own doodles if you wish AND I have included a PDF for you to download if you prefer to trace my goddess face.

When it comes to materials, really the options are limitless. If you have been following other Crafty Crusaders blogs and trying out some of our awesome projects then you would already have a collection of Pebeo Fabric, Porcelain and Glass paints and for this reason I am using these materials extensively through-out because I want to show you they are not just for craft - you can create a beautiful mixed media painting with them as well. A mixed media project like this is a great way to use up whatever products you have on hand.

Here is a basic materials list:

• 16 X 16 inch Wood Painting Panel (you could use a stretched canvas but you may get slightly different results)
• Clear Gesso
• Graphite pencil and fine ball point pen for tracing
• Scotch Blue Painters Tape (available from hardware stores)
• Selection of stencils (I really recommend collecting stencils if you like doing craft or creative projects but if you don't have them - decorate your sections free hand).
• Selection of Acrylic paints, including Pebeo Setacolour Opaque Fabric Paints, Pebeo Vitrea 160 Glass Paints and Pebeo Porcelaine 150 paints. 
• Pebeo Porcelaine 150 in Gold
• Pebeo Vitrea 160 Iridescent Medium
• Selection of paint markers as above, as well as other brands such as Posca and Molotow. 
• White Paint Pen
• Schmincke Aero Color Ink in Brazil Brown
• Small round paint brushes

This was very experimental for me as I chose to work on a wood panel which I never have before and I didn't know how the materials I was using would react, but let me show you how it went...

Firstly, download a PDF of the Goddess here if you wish to trace it and I will show you how to copy it on to your substrate. Of course, alternatively you can draw your own.

Step 1. I used a 16 X 16 inch Wood Painting Panel available from art shops. Because I wasn't sure what I would do with at first, I covered with a coat of clear gesso. To be honest I am not sure what difference this would make to the rest of the process, but on the packaging it suggests to coat the panel with gesso primer so I did.

Step 2: If you are drawing your own Goddess, go ahead and do it in your preferred manner. If you are using my Goddess, make sure you have downloaded and printed a copy from this link. Print the PDF on normal copy paper A4 size from your printer. You need to colour the BACK of your photocopy, covering the lines you wish to trace with GRAPHITE. I used a Graphitint pencil so that the colour was different and you could see it. Then place the photocopy onto your panel in the desired position with the graphite side down. Now use your ball point pen to trace over the lines. The pressure of the pen will transfer the graphite onto the wooden panel. (Note you can see where I have coloured in with graphite because I am using my own tracing on transparent paper - you won't see this if you are using a photocopy).

It may be faint at first, if so go over the lines with your graphite pencil so you can see them clearly. You may need to add a little extra to the tracing in the shoulder and body area to take up the space if you panel is the same size as mine.

Step 3: This is one of my favourite techniques. Use Scotch Blue painters tape to mask out some straight lines and create "sections" to work in.

Step 4: Now you want to take your stencils and place a separate design in each section. I recommend  sticking to a similar family (such as blue, green and yellow) and one contrasting colour (such as shades of purple). The fun is in experimenting and creating for yourself, but so you have an idea I will give a bit of explanation for how I created each of my sections.

Section 1: First I stencilled using Pebeo Vitrea 160 Marker in Turquoise as below.

section 1

Then I painted over the whole section in Pebeo Vitrea 150 glass paint in Anise. Once that was dry I stencilled in the butterflies using Pebeo Setacolor Opaque fabric paint in Garnet Red.

Section 2: I first painted a rainbow with Pebeo Vitra 150 in Amaranto, Azure and Anise...

Section 2 and 3

Then once dry I stencilled over the top with a colour made from a mix of Setacolour paint in Buttercup and Vitrea 160 in Azure.

Section 3: First stencil with Pebeo Porcelaine 150 in Parma Violet. Use a marker, or the paint with a fine brush to touch up where necessary. When dry, the background is then painted with Setacolour Opaque in Oriental Blue.

Section 4: For this section I painted the solid colour first using Pebeo Setacolour opaque fabric paint in Light Green. once dry I stencilled over the top with Pebeo Porcelaine 150 paint in Lapis Blue.

section 4

Section 5: The background was done first blending the Setacolor Opaque paint in Cornflower, with the translucent Vitrea paint in Parma Violet. The stencilling over the top is in that same beautiful Olive Green colour I mixed my self using Setacolour Buttercup and Vitrea Azure (a yellow and a blue).

Section 6: For this stencil I used Pebeo SetaSkrib markers in Light Blue and Purple to do the stencil, then painted in the background carefully with a small round brush and Setacolour Opaque in Buttercup.

Section 7: Solid colour painted first, Setacolour Oriental Blue, stencil and Setacolour Opaque in Buttercup.

Sections 6, 7 and 1

Step 5: Once you are happy with the major work done in each section you can take off your painters tape. I then painted in my Goddess with Gesso. Once painted I redefined the lines I needed with a pencil.

Gesso your Goddess and redefine your lines. 

Step 6: Experimental art often leads to mistakes, which can lead to important lessons and sometimes blessing in disguise. To paint in my Goddesses dress I originally used a combination of Pebeo Vitrea 160 Iridescent Medium with Setacolour Opaque in Buttercup on top of Gesso that wasn't completely dry and the three products just didn't mix together and started peeling off. Lucky I was able to scrape most of it off with a paint scraper.

Goddess Dress scraped back.

I then went over it again this time using the Vitrea 160 iridescent medium with virtue 160 paints in Lemon and Brilliant White. I love that the wood grain showed through and I also got some really interesting texture because of the few bits of underpainting that weren't completely scraped off.

New Goddess Dress

Step 7: The colours I have used to create the hair are Pebeo Porcelaine 150 in Gold (look how beautifully in shines in the light) and Scarlet Red. The two colours will blend in beautifully on the substrate whilst they are still wet so you can creates tones of Gold, Red and Rose Gold.

The skin colour was created using a mix of Pebeo Porcelaine 150 paints in Ivory and a just touch of Scarlet Red and Gold. To get the darker shading I added a touch more red to the mix.

For the lips, Red SetaSrib marker, and the eyes Vitrea 160 Marker in Amber. Use a black Setaskrib for the pupil (don't forget to leave a white highlight for sparkling eyes) and to define the eyes and the eyelashes. I used a white paint pen to  add the white highlight in the pupil and the white of the eyes.

I also added a white hi-light to the bottom lip, and some dots on her cheeks for magical sparkle.

I used the the Vitrea Amber marker to draw a defining line around around my Goddess and drew in features such as the nostrils. 

I used red and Gold for the bird, but this could be anything you like.

Steps 7 and 8

Step 8: Once you have completed your Goddess its time to take a collection of paint markers, you can use the Porcleaine, Glass and Fabric markers you have in addition to any paint pens such as POSCA and MOLOTOW to add the little details you can see in each section. The Opaque Paint pens are also fantastic for covering up messy bits you don't like and fixing up mistakes!

Step 9: Use a circle template (a plate is as good as anything - its just about finding the right size) to mark in your pendant. I then used dots of red, white and gold paint pens to represent the chain. The word "Goddess" is written in red paint pen.

Step 10: Finally I decided try try and accentuate the woodgrain feel by using Schmincke Aero Colour Ink in Brown Brazil to stain the blank spaces. I love this look, but it's optional of course. You could also paint the sides of  your wood panel to match.

Done and ready to hang!

Baby Mermaid Library Bag

My Baby Mermaid Library Bag (although you could could use it for many purposes) actually began because I didn't want to waste the left over Pebeo Setacolor paint I had been using on another project. Here's what happened...

• I had left over Pebeo Setacolor Opaque fabric paint in Oriental Blue, Light Green and Butter Cup
• I grabbed a piece of washed (without fabric softeners) and ironed cotton "Homespun" craft fabric
• I added some water and swished it on randomly - just to see what would happen.

•  I was happy with this result, and it reminded me of a water scene, and of course MERMAIDS
• So I grabbed a Pebeo SetaSkrib marker pen and marked in the basic shapes of my baby mermaid.
• The basic shapes to draw to start off your mermaid are a circle for the face, a football shape for the body, and a triangle for the tail - it can be that simple.
• Once you have drawn in your shapes with the marker, begin to fill them in with Pebeo Setacolor Fabric paint. I mixed together White and Bengal Pink to make the face and Used the Bengal pink on its own for the body and tail.

I used a heat dryer to spend up the paint trying so I could move on to the next layer.

• Next I used a stencil and white fabric paint to add a pattern on the body. I used a Princeton Stencil brush at first, then a finer brush to make the white paint thicker around some edges to add shading and dimension

• Add some detail on the tail with white paint

• I used a mixture of Pebeo Setacolor in Parma Violet and White, with a fine brush and wavy strokes to create the hair (imagine hair floating about in water). I started the beginnings of my face as you can see. The neck is just a small line and the arms are simple stick arms and hands.

• I love to add dots so I added swirls of white dots in the hair

Note how I have also added some Parma violet shading on the tail. You can also go over any of the colours as they dry to increase their intensity.

The finished Baby Mermaid

• Use a fine brush and/or Setaskrib markers to create facial details. Don't forget to add a dot of white paint for a hi-light in the pupil to give a "starry-eyed" look. Note also how I haven't outlined the bottom of the eye, this adds youth and whimsy to the face.

DON'T FORGET TO IRON YOUR DESIGN AS PER INSTRUCTION ON THE BOTTLE TO SET THE PAINT

Although my design had started just as a play on a piece of fabric, I ended up really liking it and wanting to use it in some way so I decided to make a simple children's library bag. Here's how I did it:

• Cut a piece of cotton fabric to required size, mine is 35cm X 40 cm finished. My fabric is a remnant of uncoated curtain fabric.

• As you can see in the above photo I cut a long piece of fabric so the bottom or the bag has a folded edge. BEFORE stitching up the side seams I have finished the top edge of my bag with my overlocker, and folded over a seam of about 3cm. This will create a casing to thread through a cord. You can see I have marked in a button hole. I actually did not sew the button hole in this position, as the hole would have ended up on the inside of the bag and I wanted it to be on the outside.

Note the button hole is only sewn through one thickness of fabric (before the top edge is folded over)

• Once you have sewn in your button hole, sew up your side seams, then fold over your casing and stitch in place. Press with your iron.
• Next you will need to adhere your design to your bag. To do this you need a double sided adhesive web which you will be able to buy from a fabric and craft store. There are many varieties available but I used Heat - n -Bond Ultrahold. Follow the instructions on your product.

Here I have peeled off the backing on one side of the adhesive web and ironed it to the wrong side of my design. Next I will cut around the design, then I will peel off the paper backing and iron it to my bag while it is till out flat.

As a final touch I've used a bit of Dimensional Fabric Paint 

• Once you have adhered your design, attach a safety pin to a piece of cord and thread through the casing. Going the cord together with your sewing machine and you are done.