It is pretty easy to make your own fabric embellishments if you have a Silhouette and Therm O Web HeatnBond.
First, you need to fuse the HeatnBond to your fabric. The HeatnBond stiffens the fabric enough for it to be cut by the blade.
The HeatnBond instructions say to put the rough side of the HeatnBond on the wrong side of the fabric. To my eye it was easy to see the shiner side (which has the adhesive the iron is going to stick to the fabric).
Once you cover the HeatnBond and fabric with a light pressing fabric you press the iron for 10-15 seconds. Once the fabric and HeatnBond is attached flip it over. You can heat it a few more seconds on the front side to make sure it stays adhered.
Then you can trim it so all of the fabric is covered completely by HeatnBond. I thought my fabric was very lightweight but I needed to use the canvas settings on my Cameo.
Once the shape was cut out I put the pieces together with Therm O Web Zots…
and adhered the fabric bows…
to a hair clip…
and card with more Zots.
I will definitely be stocking up on more HeatnBond so I can make my own fabric embellishments!
🙂 Rebecca
