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WOW. So amazing! The bird is gorgeous! The 'dots' are called sequins... (so many people think that you spell it 'sequence' tho--just see how many people on ebay are listing 'sequence' garments)

Did you do the stencil as a screen print?

I don't like working with screenprinting ink colors at home since it's annoying to clean up, but a really cool trick if you are screen printing at home is to use a thick foam bathroom cleaner that has bleach like.. here in the US we have Softscrub. The thick consistency makes it not run and the bleach will bleach out the color of the fabric in the shape of your screen/design. If you are doing multiples, you just have to wash the screen a lot cuz it can get clogged easily. The other plus is that you don't have to set/cure the dried ink... I supposed you could do it with an iron at a very high temperature.

My screenprinting instructor just published a book which is supposed it really good for DIY at home printing: they have it amazon.de too (but it's in English) Home Screen Printing by Paul Thimou

The pearls are what we call "bugle beads'.. i like beading with those because they take up a lot of space and it goes quicker.

I screen printed the skyshaper covers (or variants) on to the cover of the tourbook I was making for Mika in silver, white and pearlescent orange. It came out nice, but so boring and technical compared to your creative work! I was going to do a light reflective iron-on's in orange and silver over, but never finished.

If you send the pictures to me, I will upload them to the Covenant fan art deviantart account. Or open up your own deviantart account and send me the links and I will link them from the Covenant one. my email is in my profile.

ps. i have tons of scraps of light reflective iron on material which would work great for doing silver sun rays if you want me to send you some. I keep trying to force them on people who are crafty cuz it's fun stuff towork with... and they are the 'margins' of what i cut out on my cadcutter, so they are pretty useless to me unless I want to cut
strips or small designs by hand. (it's what i used in this shoe-- when light hits it at 90 degrees, it reflects it back and looks white.. but otherwise it looks silver.

oops. i meant to link the picture of the cover... i have some other kinda blury pictures of the first pages, but i didn't want to post them until it was finished. and i will finish it! i think everyone deserves to see how their pictures were used.

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I printed it on sort of a twill fabric that had some stretch and then wrapped it around the cardboard cover.

I can send you some of the silver stuff no probs.. its basically scraps of paper.. very lightweight.

Does google work well for translations? I can usually make out what people are saying by using it.

Zitat

Does google work well for translations? I can usually make out what people are saying by using it.

try www.altavista.com/babelfish - everyone I know has always found that very helpful.

@ mods. sorry for going off-topic!!!!

you can also try www.leo.org also a very helpful page, I think