DIY Felt Ornaments with Flocking: Including Luxe Texture to Your Vacation Decor

As the vacation season approaches, my thoughts at all times turns to crafting festive decorations that remember the coziness of the season. This yr, I needed to strive one thing just a little completely different than my regular felt ornaments by incorporating flocking for added texture. Flocking is a way that includes utilizing an adhesive to use colourful fibers evenly throughout a floor. It creates the phantasm of velvet or plush felt and may actually make your do-it-yourself decor pop.

My plan was to make a coordinated set of felt ornaments in the identical coloration method, to permit for a cohesive contact of velvet all through our areas. Beginning off with the most typical and reasonably priced, we’re beginning with clear plastic spherical ornaments. These had been just a little difficult getting throughout the decoration, holding it in place, however they turned out nice… Let’s get into the supplies and directions.

Supplies

Self-Leveling Adhesive
Flock-It Fiber
Flocking Applicator
Paint Brush
Clear Plastic Ornaments

 The entire supplies wanted for this DIY and any DIY may be discovered on my DIY Amazon board (here).

Directions

1. Load Flocking Applicator
2. Evenly paint self-leveling adhesive round complete decoration
3. Place decoration on a peg or hold to assist stabilize it
4. apply flocking utilizing an applicator to use it evenly fully-over coat the article. Further will fall off.
5. Enable ample time to dry
6. deal with fastidiously for a couple of days and luxuriate in

To my delight, the fibers lined the shapes easily, leaving a good coating of coloration. A couple of gentle brushings eliminated any extra not caught to the adhesive, or a comfortable puff of air from a blow dryer or air compressor. The completed ornaments had an opulent, plush-like look. Better of all, the identical supplies and method meant the entire assortment matched completely.

*I do need to notice that now we have had a couple of not prove the primary time. We painted the self-leveling adhesive overtop the primary try, and it truly turned out higher the 2nd go round. Not eager to waste materials, I wouldn’t do that for each merchandise, but when there’s something you actually need to prove effectively, two layers has confirmed to be drastically higher.

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