Embroidered Flowers Notebook by Jenny

Hi everyone and welcome. It's Jenny here, back to share more ideas for using your PaperArtsy Infusions and the beautiful stamp designs of Kay Carley. Today's project is a fabric covered notebook with embroidered flowers on it. Here's the finished hand bound notebook (front and back);

Here's a short tutorial showing how this came together;

I started by cutting a piece of plain cotton fabric slightly larger than my Eileen Hull Designs Notebook cover. After spraying it with water on both sides I sprinkled a mix of Raspberry, Rusty Car and Golden Sands PaperArtsy Infusions over it, allowing them to react with the water. After leaving them for a little while I rinsed the fabric under cold water to remove any excess ink and then left it to air dry. The longer you leave your ink to react with the fabric initially the darker the final colours will be.

After ironing flat the dry fabric I stamped over it with chalk paints using designs from the wonderful Seth Apter ESA02 stamp set. It is important to clean your stamps immediately after using them with chalk paints to keep them clean for future use.

Some of the smaller flower stems and leaves from Kay Carley's EKC06 and EKC07 stamp sets were stamped onto the fabric using Archival ink and scraps of pink crocheted lace were also glued onto it using Tim Holtz Distress Collage Medium Matte.

I then used embroidery thread and different sizes of beads to stitch over the stamped flowers and leaves. Torn strips of tissue coloured with the Golden Sands Infusions Powders were stuck over the top of the lace, again with the Distress Collage Medium Matte before small yellow buttons were stitched in place.

Once the stitching was complete I used dry adhesive tape to stick the fabric onto the notebook cover. To finish the book I stamped a phrase from Alison Bomber's EAB01 stamp set with Archival black ink onto the top corner, twisted a matching tassel for the side and bound some aged paper signatures inside.

Here are some close ups of the finished notebook starting with the front cover;

And now the back cover;

I hope you've enjoyed seeing today's projects and feel inspired to try using Infusions with your fabrics. The Kay Carley stamp sets, Seth Apter stamp set and Infusions are available in the Marte store along with lots more PaperArtsy goodies so make sure to check them out.

Thanks for visiting,
Jenny (Pushing The Right Buttons)

Wildflowers Notebook with PaperArtsy Infusions

Hi everyone and welcome. It's Jenny here, back to share more ideas for using your PaperArtsy Infusions and the beautiful stamp designs of Kay Carley. Today's project is a fabric covered notebook that features wildflowers on the cover. Here's the finished hand bound notebook;

Let's show you how this came together;

I started by cutting a piece of plain cotton fabric slightly larger than my Eileen Hull Designs Notebook cover. After spraying it with water on both sides I sprinkled a mix of Raspberry and Blackcurrant PaperArtsy Infusions over it, allowing them to react with the water.

I used a brush to move the Infusions dye colour around until it covered all of the fabric and then dried it with a heat gun.

Once the fabric was dry I glued it onto the notebook cover using double sided adhesive. I then used JOFY JM05 Stamp with white gesso to add a pattern over both sides of the cover.

To create the decoration for the front I stamped wildflowers from Kay Carley's Stamp Sets EK06 and EK07 on to white card using coordinating Archival Inks. Note; you can bend the stems on the stamps when putting them on your stamp blocks to change the shape slightly when stamping. The flowers were then cut out. I blended brown ink around the edges and used Wendy Vecchi's new Liquid Pearls to add the raised detail you can see on the finished book.

To add a contrasting layer and some trim for the spine of the book I used more PaperArtsy Infusions, this time a mix of Olive Tree, Slime and Golden Sands to colour more fabric and some cotton lace. This time I didn't move the colour around quite as much with my brush so the different colours remained more distinct.

To finish the notebook cover I stitched through the piece of green/yellow fabric before sticking it onto the front. Over the top I applied a piece of old book paper and some tissue coloured with the Golden Sands Infusions before bundling the wildflowers together on top. The lace was added to the spine and I attached some twisted cotton yarn with a charm at the top. Finally tea stained pages were bound inside.

Here's a reminder of how the finished notebook looks;

I hope you've enjoyed seeing today's projects and feel inspired to try using Infusions with your fabrics. The stamps, Infusions, Archival Inks and white gesso are all available in the Marte store along with lots more PaperArtsy goodies so make sure to check them out.

Thanks for visiting,
Jenny (Pushing The Right Buttons)