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Embossing Fabric with Stamps
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Guest tutorial author Betty Traciak will show you how to use a rubber stamp to add texture to plush fabric.
Supplies you'll need for this project
Rubber stamp
100% polyester plush fabric
Light cotton pressing cloth
Iron
Water
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Our Artist in Residence answers your questions
Q: Sara asks: "How are you using your water based dye inks?"
A: There are so many ways to use them! Dye inks are bright, crisp, and transparent, so they're great for solid and outline stamps. Since they are water soluble, the inks can be used for watercoloring - this is how I use them most. You can stamp an outline and blend it out with a wet brush for a soft watercolored look, tap some ink onto an acrylic block to use as a paint palette, or press cardstock into misted ink for a 'smooshed' background. Dye inks are also great for brushing, brayering, and blending, and they are ideal for resist technique with wax and embossing images. You can even apply your inkpad directly to paper. Here are some tutorials in our archive using dye inks to get you started - you can use 'dye ink' as a keyword in our tutorial section to find more!
Direct To Paper (DTP)
Sponge & Spritz
Wet Paper Watercoloring
Stamped Brayer Blending
Wrinkle Free Distress
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Feedback From Past Tutorials
bzzzeee has ideas for the Star Fold Card: "I want to have a Christmas craft ready to go for my Thanksgiving guests, and this is perfect. The small sizes are just what I've been searching for to make photo ornaments to commemorate the wedding of my niece last month! I'm going to make the larger size as a card and the smaller as a matching photo ornament! So many ways to use these stars & snowflakes!"
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Tutorials You May Have Missed
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No special supplies are needed for next week's tutorial.
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