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Hello. My name's Liz Plummer and I'm a artist working mostly with fabric. I love dyeing, printing, painting and stitching.
This blog is about the influences on my work, inspiration, my daily life,
and the processes of creating. Enjoy!My Website
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Email me at liz @ lizplummer . com
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Category Archives: heating/burning
A few tag backgrounds
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
Fun with transfer printing 2 – the finished fabric!
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
Posted in heating/burning, Painting
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Happy New Year – and Bloggers Meet!
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
Posted in Gocco, heating/burning, Inspiration, Sewing
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Fun with shrink plastic
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
Posted in Gocco, heating/burning
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Trees finished!
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
Progress of trees!
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
