Using 3D Lumiere as a Fun Quilting Tool

Those of you who have been crafting and quilting for a long time will probably remember the nightmare that was puff paint. I remember, it was so fabulous, the kids thought it was great, but within five minutes of using it, it peeled off. Well, there's a new puff paint out, it's called Lumiere 3D, and it's by Jacquard. And it sticks, it stays exactly where you put it and it doesn't come off, and it's wonderful and funky and weird. But the best thing I like about it is that it acts as an adhesive, so I can stick stuff into it and it stays. So imagine, glue in every color you could imagine, so that you don't have to worry is this glue gonna show. On this little piece I simply added some dimensional black dots, and some dimensional black zigzag here, 'cause it just needed a little bit of perking up. The product itself comes in these wonderful little squeeze bottles. They cap really nice and tightly so that the ends don't get crusted over. And they just work wonderfully. I believe there are 24 colors if I'm right, and most of them are metallic. So I'm gonna show you how I like to use it, and again, I'm gonna be using it directly from the applicator. Now, if you think that it might not be thin enough or the hole might not be small enough, you can go ahead and put it into another applicator that's thinner, but I'm gonna go ahead and use this particular hole. And I'm gonna start by making some lines out from the center of these flowers, and then I'm gonna end by finishing by putting a flower in there. And then I'm gonna put a dollop of the paint on top of the flower, and it's just gonna perk this piece up. So I'm gonna start by doing veins, and I already have some stitched veins, so I'm just gonna kinda work in between those stitched veins. And this is gonna be a wonderful raised design. And I'm just putting a little bit of a wave in there. And then I'm gonna put a dollop in the middle, and I'll set the flower bead right down in that middle, and then I'm gonna put a dollop on top of the bead to cover that hole, isn't that easy? It's so easy, and it just really takes everything up a little notch, it makes it a little bit more interesting. So it's kind of like getting dimensional applique out of a flat piece. And remember, no two flowers are exactly the same, so yours don't have to be either, whoops. Fix that here. I'm gonna put one more little swirly doo there, and my center. And there we go, we've just taken this piece and added a little bit more interest to it. Now, my favorite way to use it is entirely as a glue. So, I did this piece earlier and I've got all these centers to all of these flowers and that's what I'm going to do. I am going to use this gold, and what I'm going to stick into it is some miniature glass bead, those are beads that are so tiny they have no hole, so they have to have glue. And this very weird and funky elongated glitter, so it's long pieces of glitter and it's black. So, I will use - I will go ahead and squirt the gold on, into the circles here and just get it in there. And then I'm gonna use this stick to smooth it into the circle before I add the embellishments. I've tried using a paint brush, but the paint brush tends to want to leave brush marks, and I don't like the brush marks. There I go. So now, I'm gonna put in just a few of these wonderful beads, and then a little bit of this very strange, black. So it look like the hairs that are in the center of a flower, those little pistols or stamens or whatever they are. And now I have a very complex center for my flower. Now I'm not gonna take the excess of that off until the paint is entirely dry. But I'm gonna go ahead and do this to all of those flowers, and not only is the center gonna be raised, but it's gonna be raised with inclusions, it's gonna have all these wonderful embellishments in it, and I'm gonna have that great play of pink and black off that gold, and have a really interesting flower center and it's gonna perk this quilt all the way up and make it really interesting. So, give this stuff a try, it's really cool. Lumiere 3D dimensional paint, and it's a great adhesive.