Stamping on velvet is one of the easiest and most beautiful uses for rubber stamps. Once stamped or embossed, the uses for the velvet are endless. Four projects: a handbag, a tag, a small book, and a note card, are featured in this article. Additional uses for stamped velvet include decorative pillows, an elegant throw for your sofa, a jewelry pouch, a lining for a box, or pages of an altered book.
Instead of ink, rubber stamping on velvet uses heat. A regular iron with few or no steam holes and a spray water bottle is all that is necessary to transfer the image from a stamp onto the fabric.
The best velvet to use for these projects is acetate-rayon.
Although bold images are most often used for stamping on velvet, images with fine lines can also be used. You should practice using these types of rubber stamps on extra pieces of fabric. Be careful not to press too firmly on the fabric with the iron. The stamp, Elizabeth, from JudiKins, is used in “Musical Moments” lends a vintage charcoal-gray appearance to the card.
Velvet is a beautiful cover fabric for handmade books. It is durable and folds and glues smoothly to the cover boards. The Fidelio fabric used for “Focus Accordion Fold Book” is one of the finest fabrics to use for heat stamping. The stamped images are sharp and clear. The individually hand-sewn beads add to the elegant look.
Stamped velvet is elegant on its own, so very few embellishments are necessary to complete the “Frida Tag.” The rubber stamp used has fine detail on the dress collar that does not show up on the scan but did transfer to the heat stamped fabric.
When you need a special handbag to match an outfit, consider making one yourself. This Velvet Drawstring Bag can be made in less time than it would take for you to shop for a perfectly matching handbag. The material and notions were purchased at Pennsylvania Fabric Outlet. The outlet purchases in bulk so manufacturers names are not listed on the items. Similar outlets are found in most metropolitan areas. The velvet can also be found in fabric retail stores and the flowers in craft stores.
The drawstring bag is much easier to make than it looks. The pattern is one rectangle that is folded and sewn in such a way that no other fabric is needed.
Velvet is a lot different to work with as a stamping surface than paper, and as such is a nice stamping technique to add to your ‘technique book’. You will enjoy working with this beautiful fabric.
