Resize your image with the corner tools so it fits on the page. Click on the ‘Select’ tool (top left arrow). I used black as the background as it provided a clear contrast. Ideally you want a reasonably high quality photo taken in good natural light and no shadows. It’s worth mentioning that you can use Ctrl+Z at any time to undo the last step. There are some brilliant YouTube tutorials if you’re having trouble with a particular step.
I’ve kept the tutorial fairly high level and only cover Monkey’s head and collar but once you’ve the same techniques would apply to do the body.
If you’ve never used Inkscape before then it’s worth having a play to familiarise yourself with some of the features first. Hopefully this tutorial will help others to do it a lot quicker.
It took quite a while for me to do this but I learned a lot in the process. I would like to mention here that I am far from an expert. Once you’ve created your design as a vector file you can resize it to whatever size you need without any loss of quality. I used Inkscape, a free digital svg program that you can download here, to take a photography of Monkey and ‘cartoonify’ it. Fabric prices start at $15.75 a yard for your own designs. You can find my design on Spoonflower here. Use a small copy of the image and transfer paper to customise your own elastic – I have a tutorial for this here. Don’t forget to reverse the image when printing on transfer paper. Use transfer paper to create clothing with your image on. You will also have lots of clothing related options, including…. So how would you like to create a digital ‘cartoony’ version of that toy? Once you’ve created your digital file there are so many things you can use it for – posters, cards, cupcake toppers are just some ideas. I started thinking about other ways we could recreate monkey and that led to designing a fabric with him on. Unfortunately we haven’t been able to find a spare Monkey – we even contacted the manufacturer but they’ve stopped selling them. Rowan and Monkey are virtually inseparable and I’m sure a lot of your babies also have a soft toy that they can’t be without. Rowan also has an image of Monkey on his top. Monkey is wearing his own customised pj trousers made from fabric with pictures of Rowan on. If you look more closely at Rowan’s pyjamas trousers you will see that the inspiration for the fabric design is my youngest son’s favourite soft toy, Monkey, who he’s cuddling in the photo. When Heidi first contacted me about taking part in this ‘Sewing for Baby’ series I had just finalised the layout on my first ever fabric design to order from Spoonflower and I thought it was the perfect project for the series. I am Laura from Craftstorming and I’m so excited to be here today – I have been looking forward to sharing this project for a long time.
0 kommentar(er)
