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Saturday, 23 May 2020

Decorating a Canvas Bag


Towards the end of last year, I spent an afternoon creating background papers with heat transfer paints and shaving foam.   You may recall that some were used on mugs.

As I still had a box of prepared papers, I decided to cut them up and try and create a design on  a canvas bag, with the help of some leaf die cuts I made.   It wasn't awfully successful, as I had forgot that the paints were really better on a polycotton material, and I should have treated the canvas bag with some  special primer (which I have but forgot!).   This was the result!  Not brilliant and not as vivid as it should have been.



 
 Undaunted I decided to do some paint fusion with some fabric paints on the other side...........




.......I then had a brainwave - do some more fabric painting to enhance the squares, and tie them all together - yes it worked!




I also discovered this little panel in the box of fabric paints - so decided to paint that too


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