Category Archives: heating/burning

A few tag backgrounds

Posted on December 22, 2009 by Liz Plummer

Inspired by Tim Holtz’s 12 tags of Christmas, I have been playing with inkpads and embossing powder to create tag backgrounds, which could, of course, be used on any paper.  I like his first year’s12 tags from 2 years ago, … Continue reading →

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Fun with transfer printing 2 – the finished fabric!

Posted on January 25, 2009 by Liz Plummer

Sorry about the delay in posting the second part of this post.  I had to do a bit of photo editing in Picasa to make the colours more realistic.  For some reason, every time I tried to photograph them they … Continue reading →

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Happy New Year – and Bloggers Meet!

Posted on January 1, 2009 by Liz Plummer

Happy New Year to you all!  I don’t know where the last week went, I seem to have been sleeping a lot; we went up to Stoke to see my parents and on Monday,  I had a lovely day because … Continue reading →

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Fun with shrink plastic

Posted on December 1, 2008 by Liz Plummer

I bought a pack of postcard sized shrink plastic from Hobbycraft a few years ago, thinking the kids might like to play with it.   But there was a distinct lack of interest so I appropriated it myself.  And with the … Continue reading →

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Trees finished!

Posted on April 6, 2006 by Liz Plummer

The two trees are finally finished! I free machine stitched them, although my machine didn’t like the xpandaprint and I broke one needle. Maybe I should have stabilized them a bit better. Anyway, they’re done. Since I took these photos … Continue reading →

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Progress of trees!

Posted on April 5, 2006 by Liz Plummer

This is what one of the trees looked like when I heated it. I ironed it first from the back, carefully ensuring it didn’t get too distorted and remained fairly flat as a whole, then I used a heatgun from … Continue reading →

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