 Hey guys, how are you doing me on social media lately? You know I've been doing a lot of stitching and I've been using some of my own rubber stamp and stencil designs on fabric to create an embroidery, a design that I can then embroider. Now initially I just took some of my stencils and these are from a stencil design called the Four Faces stencil and you get all four of these faces. I cut mine apart but you get all four of them on the same stencil and it is arranged on the stencil so that you can do this and cut them apart if you would so choose. There are two of them. These are full-on faces and then there is one that has two three-quarter faces and two profile faces on it. So I chose to use this one and I initially took that one and I traced it onto some fabric with a fabric marking pen and this one is it just says International Japan. It says EZ International Japan. I don't remember what brand this is. Now there's some of these fabric markers they're in the Sewing Notions at your fabric store. I do believe they even have them in the sewing section of Michaels. Some of them are water soluble fabric marking pens and some of them fade over time. They're just air soluble. Is that a thing? I don't know but some of them will stay unless you get them wet. This is one of those. Now I do find that even with the ones that are supposed to stay unless you get them wet that if you leave the piece for too long then it will fade a bit and you have to go over the marks again. But I would just do it no more than like a day or two ahead and I for this you can see I just used scraps of muslin and I took my face that I wanted to use the stencil and I just took the marker and I marked the the face on this on the fabric and then I embroidered it and these these are basic faces intended to just give you a starting point if you don't know how to draw a face and then you embellish it with hair and everything else that you would like to do which is what I did here on these. And then I got them wet with a spray bottle that's just off camera and ironed them flat. All the marker came off. So I like to do that very much and then I thought I've marked on fabric before with this stamp pad which is supposed to be the same kind of stuff as in the pen but it's color box erasable fabric ink pad. This is water soluble ink so it's supposed to stay again like the marker unless you get it wet. The problem with this stamp pad although it works great mine is very juicy. They don't make it anymore and there is another one that's made by a Japanese company but it's super hard to get here in the US so I thought well if people want to do this then what are they going to do right? And I did do two new designs with this ink pad and before anybody asks the feather is from stamp set number nine. See if I can do this without things falling which comes with all of those designs. Yeah making sure you can see it in the camera. And then this other one is from modern atomic set number four which comes with these designs and is intended to be a layering stamp so you choose a background color and you stamp this and then you choose a different color that's maybe slightly darker than the background color and you stamp this one over it something like that but also you could use these separately which a lot of people do and this one's intended to be layered over that one. Anyway I chose this design from that stamp set and I stamped it onto fabric with this color box ink pad which I know works because I've used it before but then when I was trying to find a solution on the internet I found this one so this is Hampton Art ultra washable washable ink pad and this is in color I got a lighter color I wanted to get a color that was similar to the color box one because I didn't want the color to be the reason we couldn't get all the ink out if it doesn't all come out. This is turquoise so I got this on Amazon it's readily available I'll try to put a link down below and I stamped two more of the same images with that ink. I'm going to insert a picture here before they're embroidered and you can clearly see that this one is slightly darker than this one you can also see that the washable ink pad didn't bleed at all on the fabric whereas this fabric marking one did a bit I'll try to zoom in on the picture a little bit for you here and so that I don't know I don't know if that's going to make a difference or not if that one means the fabric marking one is more water soluble than the other I don't know I have no idea so but we're going to find out and I will say before anybody asks the floss used is a rainbow floss called Bradley's Balloons by ThreadWorks and it's color number 1154 I got it on Etsy because it seemed to be the easiest place for me to get it from I am loving it I've already used a lot of the hank that came it didn't come on this cardboard card I put it on here it came in a hank rolled up in hank um I love it I love the colors of it it's really fabulous I'll I can see me ordering more of that all right so now we're going to get started and we're going to we're going to start with the feathers the smaller design let's hope this works now on the fabric marking one it says to erase ink wet cotton swabber cloth with water and wipe away image repeat as necessary with the washable ink it says child safe ink washes off skin adult supervision recommended it doesn't say anything about fabric it just says it's washable so it may not come out I don't know please note some colors may require more than one washing so it might not come out but we're going to find out what I am going to get is a rag to go underneath these just in case I don't want glue all over my ironing board I know my ironing board is dirty but let's not make it more dirty what I have found with some embroidery things that are supposed to be washable that won't come out is I spray them once the design is completed like this I spray them with not spray them I use a tie to go stick and then it comes out completely so we're going to just do that it does look like it's fading so then I'm going to leave it sit for a minute and we're going to see what happens and I'll be right back okay I'm going to move over the floral design which I sprayed with water yeah you can see it so I am what I will say is can you see how the ink here is bleeding that's not a shadow and it's it's fading here but this is actually bleeding into the fabric it is washing away but we're going to take our tie to go stick I'm not too concerned of all the ink doesn't come out first of all this is an experiment second of all it just gives it kind of a distressed look which I'm not mad at so now we shouldn't need that on this one because I know from experience this one will wash this is the color box one it will wash out completely let's switch these around so this is the Hampton art one this is the color box one so it is fading on the feather too but it is not fading completely so we'll go in with our tie to go stick I had somebody recently tell me oh those are terrible they don't work yes they do too they do too I don't know what you're thinking now most of your flosses are color safe and if you've tied good knots you could put these in a lingerie bag and put them in the laundry that would work spray it with a bit more water we'll let those sit and I'll be back okay now we're going to iron them which I usually always do and I just get a hot iron I was afraid there for a second ahead and turned it on all the way I use a little steam to give it a little more moisture to ensure that the ink like disappears and I know you can't see yet I'm going to give you a close-up in a minute these aren't dry yet and as they do dry the ink should fade some more that's actually the Hampton art one and it actually between the water and the tie to go stick it almost all came out it looks like it all came out and again it is a darker color ink so I got to think that if you get the lightest color possible that will work even better these little flowery shapes are all french knots and then pistol stitch FYI let's do the feathers this is the color box one which I'm bummed they don't make it that ink pad anymore but it looks like the Hampton art is a decent substitute and then this is the Hampton art feather and it looks like it looks pretty good there's a little I can still see a little bit of the ink on it but it's not bad I'm going to give you a close-up here here's the feather can you see that so this is the Hampton art one and you can see a little bit of the ink and then this is the other design which looks like the ink is all gone on this one so it might be just a matter of me on the feather leaving it sit a little more so I think the short answer is yes this actually is doable I would I would say to you anyway if you're going to use some of your mixed media tools the stamps and stencils to create embroidery designs which is a great idea and a great way for those of us who have a large stash of stamps and stencils or in my case are actually stamp and stencil designers it helps us find a new creative way to use those supplies in a way other than with paint and marker these kind of washable stamp pads come in handy again use a very light color but I would say add a tie-to-go stick to your stash of stuff in the art room now again I do these anyway I have lots of other ways of marking designs on fabric including there is a pencil that you can actually take maybe something that you wrote or something that you printed and you can actually go over it with this pencil and then iron the pencil onto the fabric and to create the design the pencil super hard to get off though and so you definitely need a tie-to-go stick for that so that's how I know to have one of these upstairs and I only had it downstairs because it was getting soy sauce out of a shirt but and it sounds empty so I think I need to get more but I usually have one it's a good tool if you're going to do this to have in your art room and this is a great way to adapt to using some of these stamps and stencil supplies in your in your art in your stitching in a new fun creative way and even if you use these designs in mixed media which would be great to add these little stitches to a mixed media page that would be fabulous so yeah I hope you find it interesting I will link my Etsy shop in the description below I have over a hundred different stencil designs and I've lost count of the stamp sets I not that many but there are quite a few maybe 30 maybe 40 I don't know and there's more stuff coming I can't talk about so anyway so yeah I'll link my Etsy store in the description below along with the Hampton art stamp pad and the marking pen I'll even I'll even link for you guys that aren't in the U.S. and don't know what this is the tied-to-go stick if you don't know what this is I don't I thought everybody knows about them this one it's a color box again erasable fabric ink pad this is a light blue color they don't make it anymore so if you find this somewhere and it's not completely dried out I would maybe at a state sale or a yard sale or even on in a on a clearance website I would say you might want to pick one up don't pay a ton of money for it it's not worth it it is a great stamp pad but especially not when this one's available all right just get a really light blue color if I could have found a really light sky blue it would have gotten that but all I could find was turquoise so anyway all right that's it for today don't forget to like share and subscribe support the free content here on youtube and over in the facebook art groups by either again shopping in my Etsy shop or paypal tip jar or joining patreon a lot of times at patreon you guys get a speed sped through video of me creating something here they get the full instructional video over there in fact there's a whole painting series coming up that they're yeah they're getting all the instruction over there and it's a very small like $2 a 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