Saturday, 11 September 2010

The handmade ribbon part 2








So creative juices were flowing and I finally stopped printing fabric and painting ceilings(!) to make some ribbon to go round my hand printed wrapping tissue.
So I bought a roll of high quality cotton herringbone tape - the stuff normally used for apron ties etc. Then I pre-washed it to remove sizing, cut it to size required and ironed each piece nice and flat. Next I chose the three sets of patterns I was going to use - a gorgeous kawaii pony brown rubber stamp set, a maneki neko goodluck cat and a wooden indian butterfly floral set.
I inked them up using versacraft black (tried red but it wast as impactive) and got stamping.
The last step will be to iron them, so once heat set they can we safely washed ad re-used if the recipient wants to keep them.....some will be binned no doubt with the rest of the packaging but either way I want to make it special. So which pattern do you like?










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2 comments:

  1. i love All of them....the actual blocks of the butterfly and floral motif are beyond beautiful that being said my favorite is probably the the butterfly one.

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