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One day soon, I’ll quit talking about “the wall.” I’m sorry to say that today isn’t going to be that day. When I could have gestated a child in the amount of time it took me to finish a single project, it’s not going to go away quickly!

When I was working on that painting project, I kept telling Tom that I was going to “frame these damn paint brushes” when I was finished. It got to be a joke, and I would daydream about where I would hang them. On one of the painted walls? On an adjacent wall?

As it turns out, I’d hang them in my office.

You always expect to find certain things hanging on the walls of a home office – awards, plaques and diplomas. I have both a Bachelor’s degree and a Master’s degree, but I honestly couldn’t begin to tell you where my diplomas are. I don’t get too many awards and plaques. But, I did have some empty wall space. And some old paint brushes.

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If it wasn’t evidenced enough by my post at the end of the year, I am currently in a state of obsession over heat embossing. Until now, I had never embossed anything in my life. I’m not a paper crafter, and I was under the impression that you could only use the fun embossing powders with stamps, ink and paper. All I knew was that you saturated a rubber stamp using an embossing ink pad, stamped a piece of paper, sprinkled the embossing powder over the ink (much like glitter) and then used a heat source to make the powder stick and raise to the surface.

Once I discovered that you could use embossing powder without stamps, my brain went into overdrive. I literally lost sleep (See? Obsession.) trying to figure out something different to emboss. I decided that I really wanted to try it on a large scale on a t-shirt, but I couldn’t find any evidence through Google that you could use embossing powder on fabric.

I took that as a challenge.

For my first project of the year, I am sharing with you how I came up with a method for heat embossing on fabric. The result is incredible, and I am having a hard time shouting from the rooftops about how awesome this looks. Since I’m equally obsessed (okay, slightly more obsessed) with roller derby than I am with heat embossing on fabric, I obviously had to meld the two into one project – a Skate It Off roller derby themed tee. You can easily use this tutorial to make a shirt with any design on the front, though. I may be making a few more with other messages or pictures.

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Celebrate Yourself with a DIY Plaque

Easy DIY Heat Embossed T-Shirt