 Hey guys, how are you today? So here you see this wet hot mess or I'm sorry, just a wet mess on my ironing board. We're going to film a little something here on my ironing board just because I think it's more convenient. But anyway, I wanted to create some little motifs that I could use in my slow stitching while we're talking about this. I'm an ironie. But I wanted to really create them with my own unique designs and I won't know, that's not even hot. I guess we'll iron that in a minute. I wanted to create them with my own unique designs but at the same time I'm being kind of lazy and I didn't want to like draw things onto fabric, which you can do to create a motif that you can embroider. So you can use a fabric marking pen to draw on the fabric and then embroider the drawing that you created. And then if you get the fabric wet then it disappears and then you're just left with the embroidery, which you can use in slow stitching and fabric collage and any number of other mixed media applications. But you have your own unique one-of-a-kind little appliques that you've created. I'm going to iron these dry that you've created of your own work, which is fun. Now I just said I didn't want to be bothered drawing anything. So I thought, you know, there's got to be another way. Plus I have my own line of rubber stamps and stencils and I'm always looking for new fun unique ways to use those designs in my other artwork in other applications. So I've been experimenting for quite a while and these are three that I created today this morning using this rubber stamp set from my design line in my Etsy shop and this is stamp set number 11. I used this stamp here to stamp on this little piece of fabric. The trick is you need an erasable fabric ink pad. So this is by ColorBox. I don't honestly know if there's other ones out there. I've just always had this one. I am currently looking for a re-inker for it, which I haven't found. So I don't know if they don't make it or I might have to go to ColorBox's website and ask them. Anyway, if you get an erasable ink pad, fabric ink pad, this is the same kind of ink that's in your fabric marking pen. So when you get it wet, it disappears. So you can take this ink pad and you can stamp on fabric, which I've done here. This is the feather design from set number nine, which is this where we this set here. And then once you embroider it, here's another one I just finished, once you embroider it and this is from stamp set number. Before somebody asks me, this is from Modern Atomic set number two. Whoops. And I'll link my Etsy store in the description below. It comes with all of the stamps that you've been seeing. I keep my, they're unclink mounted. I keep them in CD cases. That's how I store them. Anyway, this is one I just did and I decided to, let's see, on this one I did a combination of backstitch and French knots to get this unique look. And on this one I decided to do, it's basically a French knot with a long stem. It's called pistol stitch. And you can find tutorials for how to do all kinds of embroidery stitches on YouTube. And there's a lot of different ones and you could, I tend to go for the quick easy stitches. But you could do something more complicated. So once you have it all stitched, now you'll notice that some of the design on the stamp came a little close to the edge. So I chose not to embroider those. And I chose to do rainbow thread colors on this one. So once you have that done, then you just get it wet with water. You see the ink starting to fade. And then I just leave that sit for a minute. And as it gets wet and soaks in the ink will fade. That's exactly how I did these. And you don't see any blue ink on them anymore. And then once the ink is faded, then I just press it flat. So I'm doing another one right now. And this is the feather design. And I'm going to just do a backstitch on it. But you could do anything. Drive you all crazy making me, making you watch me stitch this whole feather. But again, I'm just doing backstitch, which we've gone over before in other slow stitching videos. And I'm just following the lines that were inked with the erasable ink pad from the rubber stamp design in this dark gray thread. And creating a unique fabric embellishment that I can use on other works, creating my own art parts, if you will, which I think is more fun to use sometimes than the store bought stuff. And in this time right now that we're having here in 2020, it's hard to get out to get stuff. And if you don't know what I'm talking about, and you're watching this in the future, just Google the year 2020, you'll figure it out. Anyway, okay, so now I'm going to just tie it off in the back. And like the one other one, I'm going to turn it over. And I'm going to get it wet front and back and let it sit for a few minutes. And over time what's going to happen, like what happened with this one while it was working on the other one, you can see there's virtually no blue ink left. Sometimes you have to get it wet a couple of times before all the ink disappears. But it does go away. Then you can dry it with the iron or you can just let it dry naturally. And then you've got your unique fabric embellishment that you created using tools and supplies that you probably already had in your art room. And rubber stamps that you maybe aren't using because you bought a bunch of them when paper crafting and scrapbooking was a craze. And then you have a bunch of them that you aren't using. Well, here's a new and unique way to use them other than using them on paper. So I hope it gives you some ideas of what you can do. 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Go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later. Bye, guys.