Well, can you? This is a question we are all bound to ask sooner or later…or not. Anyway, I asked it and tried it and here is the answer -No, you cannot.

You can stamp the fabric and get the embossing powder to stick, of course, but when you heat it the gluey-plastic-stuff that makes it embossed melts into the fabric and does not raise. I tried on three different materials:

Cotton canvas (grey/white) – the stamp does not sink through the fabric but doesn’t stay on top of it either

Thai silk (green/silver, bottom left) – the stamp melts right through the fabric and can be seen from the other side

Cotton-polyester stretch mix (blue/white) – the heat melted the actual fabric as well as the embossing powder…

The stamp motif also became a little fuzzy due to the melting, but I guess you could use this technique if wanting to stamp fabric and make it stick – be careful when heating synthetic fabric though, as mine melted.

Butterflies "embossed" on fabric

Ok,  pink-and-gold are not my usual colours, but this necklace just made itself in my hands!

It is of collier length, strung on nylon string. The heart is approx 25 mm across and both that and the little butterfly above it is in the yellowish crystal AB. In the necklace are various glass beads in light nougat, dark green, rose gold and pink, as well as a lot of 4mm swarovskis in ‘Light Coloroade Topaz’ and ‘Sand Opal’. Plus one in the rose-reddish, beautiful colour ‘Padparadscha’.

Now I’ll just have to make the earrings to match it.