Scrapping by Design

The burnished velvet glitter technique is a way of  creating beautiful embellishments using glitter and double sided sticky tape. Two local British Columbia women, Haroldine Wingfield (of Be Creative craft store in Pitt Meadows) and Deanna Pannell developed this technique. Vancouver area crafters fell in love with burnished velvet and use it with much enthusiasm. It shows up on greeting cards, scrapbook pages, altered books and probably in any place that paper crafts are done.

Haroldine and Deanna sell their own glitter and tape that work wonderfully well together. However, if their special products aren’t available to you, you can get reasonably good results using other glitters and tapes.

A while ago, I did a video demonstrating the burnished velvet technique using transparent glitter over a picture.

Today’s video demo illustrates how to use this technique to create burnished velvet glitter designs of multiple colors.

Supplies:

• Ultrafine glitter in two or more colors. For best results, use ultrafine, opaque glitter.

• Double sided sticky tape in various widths. (OR cut desired widths from a wider sheet).

• Resist paper. (The “slippery” paper that stickers and tape is adhered to. Save the resist paper from your packages of stickers or sticky tape.)

• A brush for removing stray glitter

• Craft punches or die cuts

For additional tips for creating burnished velvet designs, please refer to I’m Impressed Paper Arts. This Vancouver craft store has a tip sheet linked to the front page of their web site.

The designs you can make with this burnished velvet glitter technique are truly beautiful. Be as creative as you wish. You are limited only by your imagination.