Willow & Paisley

Heat Embossing on Fabric

Hey Everyone!  I'm posting a little project I did for Technique Tuesdays blog last September.  YES, I am that disorganized that I'm only just getting around to posting it now.  I know, I know....I need to smarten up!

Anywho....enjoy and have a great weekend.  The summer is going to be gone before we know it so get out there and put your feet on the ground and get the sun on your face!

p.s.....I thru a piece of the heat embossed denim in the washing machine to test it's durability and none of it came off.  I didn't try the dryer though.  

 

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TT asked the Stamping Techs to choose a technique to share with you all and I decided to heat emboss on fabric.  In fact, I heat embossed 3 different types of fabric.......1) denim from an old pair of jeans....everyone has a pair of these they can spare.  If not hit your local Goodwill store.  2) Amy Butler fabric and 3) a scrap of Ikea fabric (the red and tan one but I just wanted it for the tan part).  

 

Here are all the supplies I used.  The stamps are Pocket full of Posies, Petite Posies and Favorite Memories by Ali Edwards. 

 

 

 

 

When heat embossing on fabric you have to be fast but more importantly you have to make sure that your embossing ink pad is nice and juicy.  You will likely need a refill bottle handy unless your ink pad ia new.  A little trick I found is tha after I poured the powder onto the stamped images I used the lid from the jar to lightly press the embossing powder into the ink.  This made for a much more vibrant and solid image.  

 

 

 

 

Then go ahead and heat emboss just as you would on paper.  The powder didn't fly away on me as that light pressure from the lid helped keep it in place until the heat gun had a chance to melt it. 

 

 

 

 

In this picture below I wanted to show the difference between heat embossing and ink on fabric.  The top left sentiment is heat embossed after I pressed the powder into the ink.  Nice solid image.  The sentiment that is cut out is heat embossed also but I did not press the powder into the ink on that sample.  It's not the one I used on the card but I was testing out how easily I could trim the sentiment out on the fabric.  The bottom left image is straight brown ink and looks great too but just much more subtle.  Which do you like better? 

 

 

 

 

The last fabric that I stamped and heat embossed was the pretty polka dot Amy Butler fabric.  It thought it turned out cute and it didn't even bother me (much) that the powder stuck in places it shouldn't have.  

 

 

 

 

And last but not least here is my card I put together using my heat embossed custom fabrics.  I machine stitched them onto the card, trimmed out the sentiment and dotted it with a heart!

 

How easy was that?!  Do you think you might try this heat embossing on fabric technique?  I'd love it if you did and left me a link to come to oooh and ahhhh over!  

 

 

 

 

Loonie Stampers Challenge 140

 

 

 

Can you believe this is our 140th challenge?  Wow, time flies.  {{I wish that # was my weight...ha}}

 

Dee asked us to use patterned paper as our card base for this challenge.  I used Cosmo Cricket paper and placed a felt flower on the leafy vine print.  Some alpha stickers, green felt leaves and a scalloped border finished it off.  I'm not sure you could get much easier than this.

 

 

 

 

 

The other day I was chatting by email with my friend Marlou and we were talking about these flower dies and she mentioned that rolling them in felt is finicky.  I hadn't tried felt yet but yes she was right.  My big fat fingers didn't work well so I wanted to show you what I came up with. 

 

I totally recommend using a quilling tool when using patterned paper but felt won't fit into it.  I happen to have these little metal clips which I bought to make my nieces some ribbon hair clips {{um, yeah, that hasn't happened yet}}.  Anywho....they worked great.   

 

Just clip it onto the outside edge.

 

 

Then start rolling it away from you.

 

 

Once you get to the end you can loosen the rose up a bit with your fingers.  I used a few stitches through the bottom to hold it together as well as a big glue dot.  Once the flower was how I liked it then I removed the metal clip.  It works great to tighten the centre of the rose too if you find it's gotten too loose.

 

 

So there ya have it.  Hope that little tip helps some of you out.  Oh btw....I was over at Wendy's the other night and just found out that MFT has 2 smaller sizes of these rose dies.  OMG I love!  She let me borrow it till I can get my own.  Thanks GF - I can't wait to make even tinier rolled flowers!

 

 

 

 

Ribbon Scrap Border Card

Do any of you keep your little bits of ribbon that you trim off your bows?  Or have those end pieces from a roll that aren't big enough to use on a card?  Now be honest so I don't look ridiculous for keeping mine.  Here's my (terrible) storage where I throw all those little bits.  Anywho.....lately I have been hoping someone would come up with a great way to use up these ribbon scraps.  Then I thought....why not me?!!

Well here it is.......my Ribbon Scrap Border Card.

{{{I actually have a pillow from Pier 1 that is entirely covered with ribbon loops just like this.}}} 

Now even if you don't keep your ribbon scraps you could certainly clip off bits from any of your ribbon rolls to make this ribbon border.  I took a few pictures to show you how.

First cut a strip of card stock about 4 1/4" x 3/4".  Start looping your ribbon and attaching.  I recently bought the Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher from a local scrapbook store.  It has the teeniest tiniest cutest staples.  I love it.  A regular stapler will work just fine and you could even use Scor-tape as I am sure it would be strong enough to hold.

I made a couple of rows and just mixed and matched the colours and styles of ribbon. Cuteness!

Then I trimmed off as much excess as I could.  Trim as close as you can to the staples so they will be well hidden behind whatever you chose to cover the edge with.....that could be paper or more ribbon.  I chose this amazing Twill from Perfectly Pretty.  I was so pleased to discover that it is a PERFECT match to the Kraft cardstock.  Seriously....this twill is a must have for anyone who loves Kraft. 

So there you have it.  My Ribbon Scrap Border Card.  What do you think?  Were the photos helpful?  Will you try making one? I'd LOVE to see it if you do so please be sure to let me know where I can find it.  I had so much fun with this and I hope you enjoyed my little 'how-to'.  Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a GREAT week everyone!