Tuesday 10 September 2013

Mr Pumpkin Head...

.. remember these?....well one is finished... meet Mr Pumpkin Head..all painted and with his new hat on.His body is made from a circle of old curtain velvet simply gathered, filled with plastic pellets and glued around his neck, you could use rice or beans.


The print is stamped... ink up your stamp, I used Archival ink ,place the stamp face up, place the fabric on top of the stamp and iron with a hot dry iron.... this sets the ink and also embosses the design onto the velvet.Only use rubber stamps not clear ones.

Still got Mr Skeleton to finish...

5 comments:

Sue said...

Love him!!! I remember doing that heat stamping onto velvet a very long time ago:) Yay for old techniques!!!

Unknown said...

He is an absolute star and you have managed to give his face real character

Tinkertaylor said...

What a cheeky grin

Paula Whittaker said...

love it.

Sid said...

He is fab Effie !! Looks a bit like me ........