[FS] Paperclipping 44 - Altering Felt [Free Show]

Do you have a lot of felt? If so, I think you’ll love this episode, especially if you also like Tim Holtz.

(Ahem) Yes, I just said, “Tim Holtz.” Did that get your attention? Great, because whether you’re a Premium Subscriber or not, today’s episode is free to everyone and I’ll bet you haven’t seen a demonstration of a Tim Holtz product quite like this.

Have you ever noticed how how bright felt products often are? I love the texture of felt and that it gives dimension to a layout. But the colors don’t always work for color combinations I’m using. Plus, if you buy a lot of it, you may just need to do something different with it for a new look. Today’s episode is a tip on how you can adjust the color of your felt, and even make it multi-colored.

1. Here is a piece of my felt in a color that hasn’t been attractive to me. And here are two shades of Tim Holtz’s Distress Embossing Powder. If you’ve never seen this before, this powder comes in colors that coordinate with Tim Holtz’s Distress Inks. And it gives a very gritty, textured look instead of the shinier smooth texture of regular embossing powders. But instead of using it on paper like it was intended, we’re using it on felt.

You’ve probably seen embossing before and we’re going to follow th same steps. You just rub on your versamark or watermark ink, and sprinkle some embossing powder.

3. I want the original color to show through, so I’m only sprinkling a small amount. And I want to add a third color around the edges, so I’ve kept most of my edges empty and now I’m dipping the edges into the third color.

4. The tricky part is putting your embossing gun at the right distance to the felt. Your felt will get a little more crispy. The original color might darken a bit. But if you get too close with the heat tool, it’ll ruin the felt, so watch out for that.

5. The distress powder does an interesting thing to the felt that regular embossing powder doesn’t do. It raises some of the fibers so it has a lot more texture this way than when it is plain.

7. Show Gizmo layout. One tone Distress emboss to totally change the bright green felt and make it work with my color scheme. Also did it on the butterflies for multi-hued insects.

8. Show Geocaching album color for three-toned flower felt embellishment. You can do this technique with regular embossing powder but it won’t give as much texture as the Distress powder does.

Close: I hope this gives you ideas and options of what you can do with products you’ve been holding onto.

Do you have a lot of felt? If so, I think you’ll love this episode, especially if you also like Tim Holtz.

(Ahem) Yes, I just said, “Tim Holtz.” Did that get your attention? Great, because whether you’re a Premium Subscriber or not, today’s episode is free to everyone and I’ll bet you haven’t seen a demonstration of a Tim Holtz product quite like this.

Have you ever noticed how how bright felt products often are? I love the texture of felt and that it gives dimension to a layout. But the colors don’t always work for color combinations I’m using. Plus, if you buy a lot of it, you may just need to do something different with it for a new look. Today’s episode is a tip on how you can adjust the color of your felt, and even make it multi-colored.

1. Here is a piece of my felt in a color that hasn’t been attractive to me. And here are two shades of Tim Holtz’s Distress Embossing Powder. If you’ve never seen this before, this powder comes in colors that coordinate with Tim Holtz’s Distress Inks. And it gives a very gritty, textured look instead of the shinier smooth texture of regular embossing powders. But instead of using it on paper like it was intended, we’re using it on felt.

You’ve probably seen embossing before and we’re going to follow th same steps. You just rub on your versamark or watermark ink, and sprinkle some embossing powder.

3. I want the original color to show through, so I’m only sprinkling a small amount. And I want to add a third color around the edges, so I’ve kept most of my edges empty and now I’m dipping the edges into the third color.

4. The tricky part is putting your embossing gun at the right distance to the felt. Your felt will get a little more crispy. The original color might darken a bit. But if you get too close with the heat tool, it’ll ruin the felt, so watch out for that.

5. The distress powder does an interesting thing to the felt that regular embossing powder doesn’t do. It raises some of the fibers so it has a lot more texture this way than when it is plain.

7. Show Gizmo layout. One tone Distress emboss to totally change the bright green felt and make it work with my color scheme. Also did it on the butterflies for multi-hued insects.

8. Show Geocaching album color for three-toned flower felt embellishment. You can do this technique with regular embossing powder but it won’t give as much texture as the Distress powder does.

Close: I hope this gives you ideas and options of what you can do with products you’ve been holding onto.