Creating Fabric Covered Journals-Part 1, Gelli Printing on Fabric, Free Motion Stitching, Fabric Art

[Music] hi everyone its Julia have any of you are experimenting with Mod Podge for fabric today I am going to be doing art play on fabric making journal covers we're going to be designing the fabrics for the covers today in this video and then the part 2 of this video will be more on taking those fabrics and turning them actually into the cover of the journals so I hope you enjoyed this we're going to be doing a lot of painting and just using my jelly plate to to doing the prints on white denim I'm going to be using white denim and we're gonna be using this to seal it to see if it helps prevent lifting of the paints and dyes and things from the actual fabric so I hope you enjoyed this thanks for watching I'm using my large 12 by 14 inch jelly plate and using distress oxide stamp pads I have not used the distress oxide at all on my jelly plane so I'm kind of doing just a lot of experimenting with this spritzing it with some water and then laying my first piece of denim on top my denim is cut approximately eleven by ten and a half inches I do want enough extra space around eat the piece to cover the journal these are going to be inserts for a traveler's notebook in here I'm just doing more some stamping using again using the distress oxide this didn't turn out at all limit this whole this whole project is experimenting but I'm just directly stamping right on my jelly plate and then trying to lift lift it up and it didn't it did just didn't work but I'm adding more of the distress paint or dye and just continuing to add some layers to this piece going in with a stencil now and adding another layer onto my acrylic paints I chose three different acrylic paints in greens and blues wina in and added a little bit more of a texture with this the circle sponge brush and it'll unlifted it there's a lot of excess paint on here so I'm taking my some tags and just doing just adding some paint to some tags and I ended up using several of these tags for the journal covers themselves so you'll see that later you this is a stencil that I picked up from Tuesday morning a couple years ago and I don't even know that the brand on it and there's the first lifting I really love how this one turned out adding a little bit more detail again with that circle sponge I'm onto doing some testing here I just sprayed with some water this on this white cloth to see and you can see that the distress oxides are lifted a lot so I'm on to just putting a coat of this fabric Mod Podge using just a sponge brush and just doing kind of a lighter layer of it this is another distress oxide print and I am again adding the the Mod Podge on to testing the acrylic and the acrylic also lifted and so again adding the Mod Podge to the top to seal it I'm back and the fabric modge podge has completely dry and it feels it feels like it has a coating on top but it doesn't have a sticky or tacky feel at all I'm going to test to see if I have any lifting or any color transfer just by taking a little bit of my my clean spot on my cloth here and wetting it and then just wiping it off wiping it there is still a little bit on the distress oxide let me try the this is the acrylic paint and the man do the kind of do the same thing yeah there's there's no there isn't Danny there is no lifting on this at all and so that's good to know now these are gonna be journal covers like I had mentioned before so I'm not real concerned about the lifting or I don't think anybody's gonna be getting them really wet I will be taking these over to the sewing machine now and doing collaging on them and just some interesting things I'll be adding some paper to the top of them to treating these more like backgrounds and I'm gonna go create and see what I come up with and I'll show you what they look like when I'm done I'm doing these little fabric collages with a free motion technique my feed dogs are dropped and I have my embroidery foot on and I'm just going around these fun little elements that I had put on here this is one of the tags that you saw me lift some of the paint off of this one I love how it turned out it it has like a nature theme to it and it just it's just really sweet again one of the tags that I had stamped a tree silhouette on and I love this little thing it's called breathe breathe it all in love it all out and that is a stamp that I have stamped on a piece of muslin I changed to brown thread here and I am outlining these leaves I love how and free motion you can actually draw with the thread and add some detail again these little leaves I have stamped using a pigment ink on muslin [Music] added a little thing to the back of the journal using the same brown thread I'm outlining the the butterfly again being able to draw the antennas on with my brown thread I changed to pink thread here and I'm just doing like a meander stitch to add some texture onto the green thread and again just adding a meander stitch you a lot of little snippets of fabric and lace go into the little collages [Music] so I hope you enjoy that it was a lot of fun I'm gonna be taking some close-up photos so you can see them a bit better and just a little bit of what I'm going to be doing in the next video this is gonna get too long so I'm gonna show you how I create and how I actually make the journal cover in the next part two of this video but I have all sorts of folded yumminess papers that will be put inside and these are going to be this kind of this isn't like a traveler's notebook size which will be going right into them right into a traveler's notebook size journal so stay tuned for the next one and I hope you enjoyed this hope you have a chance to create today thanks for watching you

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Keywords: sewing, fabric covered journals, jounal inserts, junk journals diy, sewing tutorial, free motion applique, free motion stitching, gelli printing on fabric, modge podge for fabric, distress oxides, stitchesbyjulia, stitches by julia, fabric art, sewing projects, making a fabric journal

Id: Ih77YM15z0I

Length: 9min 55sec (595 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 21 2017