We all know that I have a serious love affair with Sharpie’s®, I just can’t help myself! One of the things I love is what you can do on fabric with the little sticks of luscious color! A little Sharpie® and some alcohol and your fabric will never, ever be the same.
Here is a tote bag I made using:
Sharpies®
Doilies (not Grandma’s but the kind you buy in the craft store)
A tote bag
Eye dropper
Needle & Thread or Fabri-Tac
Darice Rhinestone Setter
Rhinestones
Choose plain cotton doilies.
Color them with your Sharpie® markers. You might want to use older markers as coloring on the doily will make the tip of your marker pretty rough.
Color them all!
Time for the alcohol. Just regular old rubbing acohol and an eye dropper for this project.
Slowly drop alcohol on the colored doilies until the color starts to run.
Too much alcohol might possibly wash the color out too much so just do a few drops at a time.
Let dry.
Place the dried doilies on your tote bag in a pleasing arrangement and either sew down with needle and thread or use Fabri-Tac for a quicker finish. (I used Fabri-Tac and it worked just fine!) Go back, after the glue dries if you used it, and add rhinestones with the rhinestone setter.
Ta-Da!! LOVE IT!
Wow, this is so COOL!! Have been looking for an activity to do with my 82 yr young friend who thinks she isn’t creative and this is it!
Oh how fun! I hope your friend has a great time making this tote. One can never have too many bags! 🙂
LOVE this idea, I want to have an art day and make these with my niece!
I’d love to see photos of what you and your niece come up with! 🙂
Wow, this is lovely, I have some rubbing alcohol that I bought in a spray bottle, I might just try this first and if it doesn’t work, then do the eye dropper. Thanks so much, I really love the look.
Happy New Year,
The opportunities with this technique are endless! LOVE!!!
I know! I just love that it has so many possibilities and is so easy! 🙂
Hi, Vicki – That is absolutely gorgeous! I love the effect on the doilies – really elevates them to something amazing. Thanks for a great tutorial!
Thanks Michelle! I really appreciate your comment. 🙂
Wonder what would happen if you put the alcohol in a spray bottle and spray them with a very fine mist?
Good question! I’m not sure how well the fine mist would work because you have to fairly saturate the area to make the color run. Not too much and not too little. You might be squeezing that spray trigger a lot to get the effect you want.
The other thing about the eye dropper is that in some areas the color is more intense and in others more washed out. I like the variation. 🙂
But hey, I’m always up for experimentation! 🙂
Love it!
Thanks H!! And thanks for sharing on CRAFT! 🙂
My pleasure. 🙂
nice work!
I love using them for animation.