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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