Green again

I’m totally more than blessed to have a fantastic team to run cafe with - all whom bring different skills.
Waderific (Tom Wade) was a legend and put together an amazing chapel time which introduced fairtrade, us as consumers and our impact on other people in the world. He put together an amazing presentation which made it come alive and then Claire did a really brilliant art workshop.

The workshop went down a storm. We’d been donated some cool reusable shopping bags which our young people sprayed through stencils onto.

Stencils are pretty easy to make but time consuming. Here’s how we made our reusbale ones:

1. either draw designs or print off images you want to use. Remember that you need to be able to cut them out without everything falling apart so keep lots of white space.

2. I lamintated the designs ( but you don’t have to)

3. Then on the back of the designs, stick double sided tape but don’t remove the waxy paper from the second side.

4. Flip the design back over and using a craft knife cut out all of the bits of the design that you want to spray through.

5. Place a thick piece of card inside the clothing/bag you are about to decorate so that paint doesn’t bleed through. Now your ready to place the stencil.

6. Ensure the fabric is flat and peel off the waxy paper from the double sided tape. Press the stencil down firmly.

7. Mask of any areas around the stencil that you want to keep clean (the spray cans go a lot farther than you think they will.......)

8. make sure you have the right safety stuff - gloves/masks etc (we did ours outside so we weren’t in a confined space) then spray away keeping the can about 30 - 50 centimetres from the design and spraying lightly in even strokes. Keep going til your happy with the amount of coverage.

9. Wait a minute or so for the pain to dry before removing the stencil.

If you don’t want to use spray paint, fabric paint or acrylic is also fine and dandy.

Enjoy

Woowhooo!