A very long time ago when I lived in PNG I made a little wall-hanging quilt from leaf prints from the garden. I used fabric paint on calico, and did a few trial runs on paper first. I found this one when I was sorting through some stuff in the craft room. I think it might be a taro leaf, but so much time has passed I'm not sure. I do know that lacking any equipment to speak of at the time, I just painted onto the leaf and pressed it with my hand onto the paper/calico. I have scanned it for this example and turned it into a "pretend card" i.e. made on the computer. I had rather forgotten about this very simple technique but think its time to rediscover it. It would be a good way to embellish garden-themed scrapbook pages.Saturday 14 July 2012
LEAF PRINT
A very long time ago when I lived in PNG I made a little wall-hanging quilt from leaf prints from the garden. I used fabric paint on calico, and did a few trial runs on paper first. I found this one when I was sorting through some stuff in the craft room. I think it might be a taro leaf, but so much time has passed I'm not sure. I do know that lacking any equipment to speak of at the time, I just painted onto the leaf and pressed it with my hand onto the paper/calico. I have scanned it for this example and turned it into a "pretend card" i.e. made on the computer. I had rather forgotten about this very simple technique but think its time to rediscover it. It would be a good way to embellish garden-themed scrapbook pages.
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