Velvet Ribbon Stamping
Mary Shoebridge
Crafty Cruisers
Intermediate Stamping Team Designer
This Holiday Season
project includes several unique stamping techniques. Stamping on velvet ribbon
yields such amazing and stunning results. The inclusion of the holiday confetti
is a way to embellish stamped art. The use of the acrylic paints and the large
foam stamp make it easy and enjoyable to complete. The making of the red
background paper adds interest and dimension to the stamped and decorated tree.
When you have completed the tree, you will be all set with a holiday card to
send to someone special. After you have tried this technique, you will want to
try other colors of ribbon and different stamping themes. You can also use
velvet paper which is different from the ribbon and is found in scrap booking
shops.
SUPPLIES:
• Chunky Foam Stamp Large
Pine Tree (Rubber Stampede)
•
Pine Tree Bough Image from Botanical Stamp Cube (JudiKins)
•
“Merry Christmas” Saying Trendy Greetings Stamp Set
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Acrylic Mounts (TAC)
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Dark Forest Green Velvet Ribbon; cut to size 4 ½” by 6” (use a roll of 6” wide
velvet ribbon)
•
Forest Green Cardstock; cut to size 7”x10” and folded in half to make a 5” by 7”
card
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Red Linen Cardstock a piece Cut 4 ½” by 6 ½” with scallop decorative scissors.
•
A Small piece of text weight metallic gold paper for the saying
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Rocket Red Brilliance Pigment Ink Pad (Tsukineko)
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Red Metallic Embossing Powder (Stampendous)
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Heat Gun (Marvy Uchida)
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Acrylic Paints: Crystal Green Deco Art Metallic Acrylic Paint (Deco Art),
Metallic Mint Pearl 672, Metallic Inca Gold 676, Real Green Glitter 261, Antique
Gold Glitter 264, Nutmeg 944 (Plaid Enterprises)
•
Flat # 4 Paint Brush, round #5/0 and #2 Paint Brushes (Loew Cornell)
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Small pieces of sponge and make up applicators for applying the paint to the
stamp images
•
Regular pencil and White chalk (pastel) pencil for tracing the oval on the
velvet ribbon
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C-Thru Templates Oval and Circle Frames (Michael’s)
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Scallop or other Decorative scissors and Fine Tip scissors
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Permanent Glue Stick (Avery)
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Aleene’s Thick Designer “TACKY GLUE” (Duncan Enterprises)
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Foam Mounting Tape (3M)
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Toothpicks for spreading glue
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Plastic plate, palette or freezer paper to mix paint on
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Decorative Christmas Confetti (Party shop)
•
Red Bead Trim (Organized Living)
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Start the Christmas
Tree Card by stamping on the Forest green Velvet Ribbon. Have the stamps and
palette next to you and the paints squeezed out on the palette. Place the
velvet on your work surface. Mix a small amount of the three green paints
together. This makes a nice paint that has a lot of glitter in it. Take a
piece of sponge and cover the large tree. Mix some of the nutmeg brown and Inca
gold together and apply to the tree trunk. Stamp the tree on the center of the
velvet ribbon and set aside to dry.
2. When the tree is dry
about 30 minutes, use the oval template to trace a large oval around the tree
and cut the tree out with the decorative scissors. Apply some gold paint to the
edge of the green velvet oval.
3. The next step is to
create the red background paper. Take the red linen paper and stamp the pine
bough images around the edge of the paper. Use the same mixture of green paint
and apply it to the stamp image and then proceed to stamp. With a make-up
applicator or fine tip brush, apply a little gold paint to the edge of the red
paper. Set aside to dry.
(Note: The image was
removed from the cube and adhered to E-Z mount foam cling and then used on an
acrylic mount)
4. Stamp the saying
“Merry Christmas” with the Rocket Red Brilliance Pigment Ink on the gold paper
and emboss with the Red Powder. Trim around the saying closely with the fine
tipped scissors.
5. Decorate the stamped
tree with the holiday confetti and glue the red beading close to the edge of the
oval.
6. Assemble the velvet
holiday card. First, glue the red background paper to the forest green card
with the glue stick. Add the velvet oval on top of the red background paper.
Add foam mounting tape to the back of the saying and position it on the card
front. It is possible to decorate the tree after you glue it to the
background. Do the decorating the way you choose. Be careful that the confetti
is glued down well with the Tacky Glue.
Your special Holiday
Velvet card is completed. Try some other foam stamps and acrylic paints on the
different colors of velvet. I really like working with stamping and the
velvet. The Holiday Tree can be framed in a 5” by 7” frame and it makes a
lovely gift.
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