Making an Irridescent Picture

Making a picture on velvet from shiny sparkly bits and pieces is fun.  You could add a border afterwards and turn it into wall art, or pin it to some foam board as I have done and plan how to improve on the next one, or just enjoy it for no other reason than that. 

To start off you need a design, some black velvet, some Bondaweb, some baking parchment and lots of pretty things like sequins, micro-glitter and other shiny stuff.

An iron and a pad to iron on is essential, and a space where clearing up afterwards will be easy.








Here are just a few photos to get started.

Draw the design on to the paper side of the Bondaweb.

Cut across the horizontal lines of the design on top of the velvet and pull slightly apart.

Choose some parts of the design where you will use hot spots glue dots instead of Bondaweb and cut the Bondaweb away in those areas.  See here at the base of Bredon Hill and to the left of the church.

When you have started to work on the picture by removing the strips one at a time and using foil to decorate the velvet, move on to use the Hot Spots before removing the Bondaweb which will surround them

Hot Spots are on the back of brown paper and are fused to the velvet with a hot iron using baking parchment around the other parts of the design. After allowing it to cool remove the brown paper and use foil and other decoration on the little glue dots just the same as with Bondaweb. 

 

The earlier blog below discussed using Bondaweb and foils.

Here you see the two spaces cut from the design now decorated with foils and sequins on top of the Hot Spots.

Another technique to try is using fusible film. this is a shiny material that fuses to itself and can be bonded to other surfaces.  I have used it here for the river at the base of the hill and it catches the light and changes colour.

I also used it to make a moon by fusing some foil in between two layers of the film then cutting out a circle.

Never forget to use the baking parchment.
Don't forget to allow the Bondaweb and the Hot Spots to cool before trying to remove the paper.










On the last picture you can see some silk strips which were backed with Bondaweb, cut into strips and bonded on top of everything else.