KINUSAIGA WORKSHOP - OCEAN SERIES

Hello, I'm Crafty Patty and welcome to my craft room and I'm sure you're excited about more kinaseki because here you are. I just wanted to let you know that in my first videos, this one here was my first one, and I talk a lot about the basics. So if you want to go back to the beginners and learn about everything in more detail, then do watch that video. Go about the basic tools, how the the framing, cutting, fabric insertion in detail. In the second video, I talk all about foam board, if you're confused about that, and framing, which is really handy. So that's a good video to watch as well. And then I started my ocean series. My first one was the starfish. So now we're going to take you on to the second one and now we're doing this beautiful seahorse together. Each one of these videos, I try to talk about something different so you learn something every time you watch a new video. Try not to repeat everything in every one of them. On this one, I'm talking about the fun insertion of fabrics to make your your little seahorse pop. I'm also talking about how you do the little tiny circles in the design to make it easier, as well as down in here. And I also go over again, I've done that in this video as well, but I go over on how you do really intricate cuts, how you do the the water, and then how you do the coral inside. So that's handy to watch that again. And I also go over how I made a mistake up here and how I fixed it. That might be handy for you as well. So there's lots to learn in each of these videos. So save your scraps, all your little tiny scraps, because I've been using little tiny pieces and I'm just finding a special place for them in each one of these. So come along and join me for my second piece, which is this beautiful seahorse in my ocean series. Step one, pick your frame. I'm doing an ocean themed series. This is the first one and I'm doing the next one, so I'm using the same frame. This is an 8x8 and it's called a display frame, also called shadowbox frames. I've already taken out the glass and the inside frame and I've already cut my half inch foam board that will fit inside here. And what I've done is I'm using my quarter inch foam board from the dollar store and this will fit on top. Step three, you're going to apply your double-sided tape. You can buy the 3M brand in sheets. You can buy a cheaper one that looks just like this, that works just as good, or you can buy it in the roll. I use Chet GPT mostly for all my designs. You don't have to worry about copyright because you're designing exactly what you asked for. So on this particular one, I asked for easy shapes to cut out for our Kinasega design. I asked for a seahorse and basically some water in the background. They gave me this because I always ask for a black and white and I ask for a color version because then you got the color ideas to help you, guide you with your fabric choices. Now as you can see, this is a rectangle. So I then asked it again, could you please make the same design but in a square format? It then gave me this and then I enlarged it on my printer so it would fit my 8x8 board. Next step, do a photocopy of your original design so you've got something to refer to. Next step, I fine-tune my design. You don't want large pieces of fabric. So here, I'm going to break this up. I'm going to come off here and we're going to do a cut line right there. So you've got a piece here, got this big piece in here, so I'm going to cut it somewhere. So I've got this one and then I'm going to cut it here. We'll come off here and then let's come off here and I'm going to take out this rock and I'm going to take out that rock. We'll just continue on the coral down to there. That's ready to go now to tape onto our board. On this particular design, I've got some really small circles. I'm going to cut those out first. You might find that turning your board rather than your exacto knife will help you to cut out little intricate pieces like circles. Most pieces of paper will come right out and then continue on your other small pieces. So I've got the little pieces cut and every design might be a little bit different. On this particular one, because I've got my design taped onto the board around the outside, I'm going to choose now to come in and cut out all these pieces here. Probably better to start with one clean line. So I'm just going to cut the one back line here all the way through and that'll make it easier to pull out the rest of the pieces. And on this section, I'm just going to come and do all the lines in the middles and then I'll come back when I've got all the lines done here. I will do this line and cut them all out and continue to work into these small pieces. I'll cut these out and then I'll work toward my edges. The next step is I work on my little tiny details. These three bubbles and these circles here. So let's do those next. Taking out your little pattern piece so you can use it to trace around your fabric. Place that right over our little hole there, making sure that you're covering. And I can see just a little bit of shadow underneath there. So I'm going to take advantage of that and just do a little guide. And I'm just going to use my seam ripper just to get it started. Checking underneath, making sure that you're following your original of the side lines. And then once you're happy with the amount of fabric that you've got tucked in, you can cut off a little bit of the excess. And just continue working around your little accent bubbles. If you've got bubbles in your design and get it all poked in. On these parts here, I'm going to do this little part here first in dark purple. So let's do that first. Next, I'm going to find a light pink and I'm going to come around this ring here. So let's take out that ring. I'm now going to place this piece of fabric right over top of the whole design. I will find where my edges are. I'm then going to place my little piece right back over top to know where it is. And I'm going to place a little line where I'm going to cut so I can get that fabric tucked in as well. And the seam ripper works good for this where I come into where I started here. Grabbing just that top fabric and not underneath and then make a little slit. I'm just going to do a little bit at a time here. There we go. And then once it's slit, you should be able to get that tucked in now. That's the easiest way I've found to do these little tiny intricate pieces of fabric like so. Once you've got it lifted with the seam ripper, it might be easier to come in just with a small pair of pointed scissors and then just cut that slit and then you can tuck in your fabric. And now that I got the little circles in, I thought it'd be kind of fun just to finish these off while I'm there. And same process, taking out your little pieces. And as you can see, this is a more intricate design. I would call it maybe a little bit more intermediate. It's not just all straight lines. So I'm going to find, let's say, maybe right here. That might look good. All right, so I'm going to cut that fabric out. We'll put that one in. So here's our first little bit of coral. And I wanted to do this on purpose just so you could see how to design. So your next step is really paying attention to having a pattern beside a pattern. You want to have a pattern beside a solid or a totally different color so it makes it pop because these two, you can't really define the two of them. This one does, that one does. So if you've got one you don't like, that's okay. You can actually take it out and you can try it again. I'm just going to use my scissors here just to get a hold of the one in there. And you can take it out and try another one if you don't like it. I'm going to find another piece of fabric and you'll see the difference. Now they all can be seen. So just a little note when you carry on now and finish up your project. Solid by pattern. I'm going to do the seahorse portion here with the eye just so you can see how I do that. Very similar to how we did this. So I'll just show you that and then you should be set to go. And putting in your piece same as always and don't lose that piece because you're going to need that. And I'll just carry on and I will get this one well pushed in. So putting your piece back in right in the right position. And then I'm going to make just a little cross in the middle here. And now we can go in and define our eye. I need to finish up the eye. I come in with my Uni-ball signal white pen and just put a little tiny dot to accent that eye and it will just make it pop. So I've showed you the hardest parts to this whole design. And just adding those more intricate little designs is really going to make your artwork pop. I'm going to be doing the little bubbles, water bubbles, exactly the same as we did this. That's why I showed you that. And I'm going to be going over with my blue water, putting on my design piece again, making a little cross, opening it up so the little bubble shows through. The next step I always like to do is the background. And this happens to be water. So I'm going to put in all my water first and that really helps to outline all our other areas to see them better for our design. I've done most of my water, but I've got one more piece here that I thought I'd do along with you just in case you haven't watched my other video. The one where I've talked about 15 Kinasega tips and tricks. So I'll show you on this one what I do with an intricate piece like this. I've done a rough cut around my piece here with my fabric and I'm going to place it on as best I can to cover all my pieces. Once I've laid it on, I just lift it up and make sure I'm in a good position before I do anything else. And then what I like to do is just tuck in some of my outer edges to get a really good idea so I can place my piece back on. Get a little buckle like this. That's okay. Just pull up your fabric, readjust it, and then start again. Once you've got your easy lines tucked in, again using that wonderful pattern piece to come back, put it in place, and I like to just make a little cut right up on my line here just showing where I'm going to cut, right like so. There's a little one here. And now with my little sharp pointed scissors, I can cut up on that line and I know I'm right where I'm supposed to be. Cut off any bulk you don't want. Just a little clipping on the curves so it will go in nicely. If you're not sure how far to go up, then use your little template. It really helps. I know I'm right here where my design stops. I can just tuck that in there so I know where I'm going. You can see that I've still got a little bit of resistance. Just come up again and fine tune. Clipping like you would in sewing around your curve. And you've got all the water now. And there we go. We've got our fabric on. I've placed some outlines. And now I know exactly where I need to clip in to my curves so I can get the rest of the fabric tucked in. And I finished this piece of coral for now. But I want to show you one more thing. Up in here when I was cutting up my fabric pieces so they weren't too big, I cut this one line thinking I would go off the seahorse. But that cuts the flow of water. And all my other lines are nice and curvy and wavy. And this just cuts it in half. I don't like it. So I'm going to fix that. And I'll show you how I'm going to fix that. So instead of having that sharp line here that cuts my movement, thinking if I come back here and I come up into the part of the seahorse, it's right here, and then come off at an angle with a little bit of another curve coming down into this one. I think that will look way, way better. I'm just going to cut out my new shaping here. So I've got my little new piece right in here. I'm just going to draw with a pencil line onto the fabric below on both sides here. It needs to be cut back. And I'm going to take this fabric piece and I'm going to pull it back. Yes, you will lose some of your sticky stuff. That's okay. Let's put my new piece back in. And now I can trace around that. And I can form my new cut lines on that side and on this side. Now I've got my new cut lines. And I'm going to put this piece of fabric back in. Cut down my old piece of fabric just past my pencil line. And now we're able to put that old piece back in. And do the same on the other side. Now you don't have to do this, but if you've got a bit of a hole in there, you can cut a little scrap piece of your foam board and just pop it in there. Fill up your hole a little bit. Not necessary, but it might help to make your top piece of fabric look a little nicer if you've got really sheer fabric. And you can see on the other side, I'm just using the back side of my seam ripper and suppressor. There we go. That will make it a little bit smoother. Okay, new piece of fabric. And there's my fix. I think that flows much better because you've got your lines coming up along with the seam with the other waves not cut in half. And I know if I had left it in there, it would have bugged me. I've gone ahead and I've added my last piece of coral here, my rocks and the greenery. You know how to put in basic pieces of fabric, so I don't think I need to bore you with putting each one of these, but I will show you when I've got it all done. I found this piece of fabric, and I think this is going to work out wonderful for the fin of the seahorse and this for pieces of the body of the seahorse. But I'm still not pleased with this. Two reasons is this is very thin fabric and the other is that there was no double-sided tape underneath this piece when I went to fix it. It was all taken up, so I'm going to fix that again. What I've done is I've cut out my shape. I then cut out the inside so I can put some glue stick on here and that will help to hold the fabric down and make it look better. So I'm just using my little guide in here because I don't want my glue stick on the rest of the fabric and that's really going to help to hold the fabric down. So let's do this again. Another piece of fabric, the double fabric, and the glue stick is really going to help. So let's put that piece in and we'll see the difference. And I'm much happier with that. Two fabrics and a little bit of glue stick helping to hold that fabric down. And when you put it in your frame, it just completes it and makes it more beautiful. That's our seahorse for the second one I've done in the ocean series and this was the first one I did in the ocean series with the sea stars. And they look simply beautifully together and when I get my third one done, I will have my set of three. Well, thank you for staying with me to the end. I hope you learned some more tricks and are ready for your Castanga project. Keep your notification bells on so you're alerted when I have published the third ocean piece in the series. Until then, bye-bye.