Yesterday I was fortunate enough to be able to spend some quality girl time with my good friends Adria, Peggy and Jacki and we went to 2 different scrap stores and went to lunch.  I haven’t been scrap shopping in a LONG time! My cardstock stash was dwindling down to nothing so I had to stock up on lots of that.  So Jacki and I stopped into Joann’s for a bit and I remembered these markers that I saw at CHA called Puffy Velvet Fabric Markers that were very cool, so we scooped some up to try.

She came over last night and we sat down to test out the Puffy Velvet Markers and some of THIS wonderful stuff!  I swear we should have done a video on this although there would have been lots of bloopers cuz there was wine consumed during the testing process! LOL   

Here’s the verdicts…

Puffy Velvet Fabric Markers: Yes they are fabric markers but we decided to try them on paper.  Shake them well and use a test sheet before using on whatever you’re doing.  They have the tip that you have to press to get the flow going and GOING it does and sometimes too well.  We ended up with a little pool of it on the paper.  You let it dry and then heat it with a heat gun to get it to puff up.  The drying time took a while, like more than 5 minutes especially since we had a pool of it on there.  The less of it you use the quicker it dries, however, the parts where it pooled were way more puffy 3-D than the other parts that just had a thin layer.   

With our first try on textured Bazzill cardstock it sort of took on the texture of the paper and it doesn’t exactly give a velvet feel, more of a rubbery feel but more of a velvet look and it’s raised and well PUFFY!

Then we tried the reverse/smooth side of the Bazzill to see what that looked like and it kind of resembled cauliflower, still not velvety feeling but puffy and still textured.

Then we actually tried it on a piece of fabric and VOILA it finally felt like velvet!  It dried quickly on the fabric within seconds.  We both agreed that you could use this stuff on fabric and cut out the pieces and put them on your pages or cards and would look really cute.  Gonna have to try that.

I then decided to try it out on my Epson Matte Inkjet paper that I use for my hybrid pages.  It didn’t work at all, the paper just sucked the markers up and it didn’t puff.   So no good on that!

Doodlebug Crushed Velvet Flock:  In-between drying times on the markers we decided to try out a sample of the Doodlebug Crushed Velvet Flock that I got at CHA.   I got out my Crafter’s Workshop doodling templates and drew a little something with a pencil, then I went back over my pencil lines with one of these  Sakura Glue Pens  and then poured the flock over it like you would do with glitter.  Can I just tell you how completely excited I was to see that little green fuzzy paisley appear…there were lots of oooooos and ahhhhhhhhs out of Jacki and I!

<———–   ooooooooooooooooooooh!

I had also purchased a glue stamp pad and used some of my clear stamps, stamped in the glue, heated it up on the paper a little then poured the flock over it…again I felt like rejoicing with GLEE as the image appeared!  AND it was fuzzy and velvety and just all around yummy!

<————- aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

So if you are still with me up to this point…to sum up our testing of products, Jacki and I both agreed that we both must run out and buy every single bottle of the Doodlebug Crushed Velvet Flock whenever it hits the stores cuz this stuff is way cool.  The Puffy Velvet Markers are cool in their own little way, it’s 3-D, it’s textured and sort of rubbery on paper but to get that velvet feel out of them it’s best used on what they are intended for…fabric.  Although, they would look really cool as the centers of silk flowers!