Being a mixed media artist, I am always looking for ways to add texture and dimension to my work. While writing Fabric Art Collage I experimented with many techniques and materials. One of those experiments resulted in hot stamping painted fast2fuse with the Creative Textile Tool by Walnut Hollow.
The Creative Textile Tool has many attributes. I like that you can hot stamp designs, use it to cut synthetics (such as Lutradur), etch and emboss onto fabrics such as velvet, cut stencils, and transfer laser images. I continue to find new ways to use it in my work. And I have a great opportunity for one lucky reader to do the same! Leave a comment below briefly describing a project you’d be inspired to make with the Creative Textile Tool by 9am PST on Monday 10/12/09, and you could be the one lucky commenter chosen at random to receive their very own Creative Textile Tool from Walnut Hollow! Good luck!
The project below incorporates the Creative Textile Tool and many of my favorite techniques. Check out Fabric Art Collage for more ways to use hot tools.
Fabric Art Collage
By Rebekah Meier for Walnut Hollow®
Materials:
- Walnut Hollow®
- The Creative Textile Tool™ #26032
- Tempered Glass Mat #25653
- Rectangle Plaque #1826
- C & T Publishing
- Fast2fuse® Craft Pack 14” x 18” #20056
- Lutradur Mixed Media Sheets #20123
- Jacquard Products:
- Dye-na-Flow®
- Salmon
- Bright Orange
- Golden Yellow
- Magenta
- Dye-na-Flow®
- Lumiere®, Metallic Gold
- Pearl Ex
- Sparkle Gold
- Duo Green Yellow
- Tsukineko®: Brilliance Pigment Ink-Coffee Bean
- The Vintage Workshop™
- Downloadable image-Ruth Vincent #S10148
- Gloss Finish Artist Canvas Sheet #VW953
- VINTAJ Natural Brass Co. Jewelry Findings-Diamond Trellis #F280
- Krylon® 18 Kt. Gold Leaf Pen
- Beacon Fabri-Tac™ Permanent Adheisive
- 4 ½” x 6” Piece of printed fabric (torn)
- Black Acrylic Paint
- Decorative Edge Metal Ruler
- Rubber stamp with script image
- Computer and Printer
- Sewing Machine (optional)
- Other supplies: Baking parchment paper, ruler, scissors, flat paintbrush, paper towels, water spray bottle, gloves, iron, pliers
Instructions:
Read all package instructions before starting the project. Make sure work surface is protected by working on glass or similar surface. Always use pliers when attaching or removing Points.
- Cut one 5 ½” x 7 ½” piece from fast2fuse.
- Mist fast2fuse with water until saturated.
- Apply Dye-na-Flow colors, (Salmon, Golden Yellow, Bright Orange) working into fast2fuse with gloved hands. Experiment with adding and subtracting color by adding more water. When desired color is achieved, let dry completely.
- Dry brush Metallic Gold onto painted fast2fuse. Let dry.
- Paint one 6” x 5” piece of Lutradur with Magenta. Refer to step 3 adding and subtracting color with water until desired color is achieved.
- Turn on the Creative Textile Tool with Tapered Point attached. Using the Tapered Point, and decorative edge metal ruler, cut a 4” x 5 ½” piece from painted fast2fuse. Place Lutradur onto glass mat with metal ruler on top. Run the Tapered Point against ruler cutting and creating a decorative cut edge. Set aside.
- Open image on computer and size to measure 4 ½” x 3 ¼”. Paint edges of image with Metallic Gold. Let dry. Place image onto glass mat. Using the Tapered Point, etch a doodled design onto the edges of image. Apply more Metallic Gold onto etched design if desired. Remove Tapered Point with pliers and attach the Mini Transfer Point.
- Cover fast2fuse with baking parchment paper. Hot stamp edges of painted fast2fuse with the Mini Transfer Point. Remove parchment paper and using a paintbrush apply Pearl Ex pigment powders onto hot stamped design. Ink stamp with Coffee Bean and stamp design onto fast2fuse. Set aside.
- Paint Plaque with black acrylic. Let dry.
- Place torn fabric piece onto painted/hot stamped fast2fuse, cover with parchment and press with iron. The fabric will fuse to the fast2fuse.
- Place painted Lutradur onto fabric, and machine stitch in place.
- Using Fabri-Tac, adhere etched image onto Lutradur.
- Edge fast2fuse with 18 Kt Gold Leaf Pen.
- Adhere finished fabric art onto plaque with Fabri-Tac.
- Rub VINTAJ finding with Pearl Ex. Adhere to fabric art with Fabri-Tac.
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26 Comments
I have been dying to purchase this tool. I'm working on texturing some collage work that I want to use as a purse panel. My materials are fabric, gel medium, tar gel, inks, and thread. I'm planning on doing a cutwork type of look and I want it to look very organic. Melting it would be perfect!
are you kidding me? I had no idea this tool existed!! how exciting and what a great dimension/companion it would be to my ribbon embroidery projects!! ♥
are you kidding me? I had no idea this tool existed!! how exciting and what a great dimension/companion it would be to my ribbon embroidery projects!! ♥
are you kidding me? I had no idea this tool existed!! how exciting and what a great dimension/companion it would be to my ribbon embroidery projects!! ♥
I would love to try this tool! I think that first I would make little portre’s with my little students
Oh my goodness………where would I start? I love to own one to experiment with all sorts of fibre, stamping, stenciling, recycling, my way to art pieces. This tool has such intriguing possibilities.
I NEED this tool….. happy to see the instructions posted and now I know where to find this tool….
Thank you for your informative blog! It is the best!
I've been wanting one of these for a while. I'd love to make some 'lace' from Lutrador to use for picture frames on a mixed media art quilt about my mom's life. The whole project is still stewing in my brain, so I'm not quite ready to start!
This would be an awesome tool to use to make the family tree quilt I have been contemplating making for awhile now…..
I would love to emboss velvet. I am sure it would look so pretty, but I haven’t had time or the right tools to do it. Thanks for the chance to win!
I would love to learn how to transfer laser images with this tool. And I wonder if it would set crystals- I think I'm ready to add some to a quilt!
I have been collecting various bits and pieces to start making something arty. I only have bits but no tools. I think I would start with some postcards or ATCs.
Great tool. The first thing I would use it for is to cut stencils for the Christmas stockings I am making for my children. This would make it so much easier that what I have been doing.
There are so many fun things to do…I’ve been wanting to make a stained glass quilt for a very long time. But I think the most practical thing of all is that you can use it for cutting stencils!!! I gave up trying to make my own stencils because I could never, ever get smooth edges. I enjoy embossing as well, and that would certainly be a useful application as well.
This tool looks like it would be a lot of fun! I think the first thing I would want to try is embossing velvet. So many ideas! Thanks for the chance to win.
Oh yes ! I have been wanting to try one of these for some time!. Please Please!!
Thanks for the instructions and the chance to win one !
What a great tool! As a textile artist as well as a traditional quilter, I’m always looking for new ideas and new ways to work with fabric.
Something new to play with! That is such a cool tool! It would be great to try lots of new things with it! Thanks so much. :)
quilters and their toys! luv it!
This would be fun to try with all my projects.
I just bought my first piece of Lutrador at a quilt show in town so I would look for that new book and try it out. I’d like to cut my own stencils to create my own fabric designs with shiva paintsticks as well.
not sure where to start -
i know i’m late in posting -
the winner date was the day before (12th)
this giveway was posted (13th)!
This looks like an interesting tool. I would use it to cut out shapes for patchwork. Happy days.
I keep eyeing this tool at Michael’s with my coupon because I want to play with it but I always need something else more. I would invent projects to do with this.
dangit. I commented on the Facebook thread about this tool. I didn’t comment here. Drat.
You can comment in either place to win, we gather entries from both Facebook and the blog before we draw the winning number.