Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Tues Tutorial~ Horse Racer's Bday Card

 
       My grand son-in-law celebrated his birthday at the end of April. I recently learned he has become part owner of a race horse. So that had to be the highlight of life for his birthday card.
     I tried a new technique for transferring the black line master picture to fabric. It was real simple and just pennies cheaper because I didn't have to use printer ink or paper.



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 Tuesday Tutorial

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First find the black line clipart 
that will work best.
I found this one HERE.
 Shrink the picture to fit the screen
of the phone
 which will also be about the right size
 for the card when folding 
an 8.5 x11 inch sheet of cardstock
in fourths. 
 
The picture here is slightly larger than the phone screen.
If you have a way to freeze your screen
so it won't move when you touch it,
use that tool.
I didn't.
 
Decide if you need to reverse the imagine,
because in the end it will be flipped over.

 Using iron on interfacing.
place the sticky side down
so you can sketch on the non-sticky side.
If you have a piece of clear plastic
to cover the phone screen,
that will help cleaning later. 
I used the old school white board trick
when a permanent marker was accidently used
to clean my phone screen.
Acetone fingernail polish remover.
I will be looking for a piece of plastic,
maybe from a deli box or something?
 
Use a marker that will not fade away with heat or water
to draw (sketch) around the image.
You just need enough guideline to cut around.

Iron the interfacing on chosen fabric.
Use sharp scissors that allow you to cut details if need.
Cut a background to fit the entire front of the card,
then lay the picture on the background
stitch around the edges.
Stitching the applique onto the background only
makes for a neater card.
 
Note: The interfacing helps it to not slide around,
but a pin or 2 sometimes is used.
I just have so much of this stuff,
I don't want to buy the bonded stuff on the back fabric.
Photoscape help highlight the stitches here for you to see. 
Stitching lines for the ground were added to help
"ground" the horse.
After all the stitching is done on the background,
now add it to the front of the card.
Stitch all around the edge on the front of the card.




Hope my Grand SIL had a great birthday!

Now try making a card
using a Clip art picture
copied straight off your phone.
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3 comments:

  1. What a great card! Fun technique to get a pattern and now it has me wondering if the same thing could be done using a computer monitor as opposed to a phone. Hmmm.....pondering that....

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  2. Great idea/technique! Maybe slip your phone into a ziplock bag for the tracing part to save your screen.

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