Here's a tutorial for you:


Using painted bondaweb to create a coloured and textured background

Colouring the bondweb:

1. Cut a large sheet of bondaweb.
2. Grab some big brushes, palette and water
   
3. Gather your paints - any water based paint will work fine - silk paints (even old "sticky" ones) and acrylics are my favourites.
4. Dilute the paints a little and paint the bondaweb..... nothing formal...... just splashes of colour. Be sure to paint all the bondaweb - right up to the corners.
5. Leave to dry
   

Bondaweb painted with gold and bronze acrylics

Transferring the bondaweb to your fabric

1. When the paint is completely dry place the bondaweb paint side down on your fabric (in this case black felt)
2. Iron with a hot iron (I use the top setting). If you are using a "decent" iron (i.e. one you use to iron white shirts) invest in some baking parchment and place this directly under the iron to protect it. Even better - invest in a cheap iron just for art work. Also think to protect your ironing surface with parchment paper or an old towel.
3. Wait until the paper has cooled (yes I know you are impatient but this is important!)
4. Gently peel back the backing paper.
5. Admire your work.
   

Left hand side is ready to iron, RHS is still paint side up

The background ready for further work.

Ideas for further work include using this as a background to embellish fibres..... add chiffon, sizoflor, stitch, burn back etc.

When I created the piece below I bonded silver Sizoflor and a black chiffon scarf. (All available in my shop). Then I transferred my design onto Golden Tracing Paper, pinned this to the back of the work and stitched from the back. Note I had gold thread in my bobbin.

Then I torn the paper off, turned the work over and stitched over each line a further three times, after this I attacked it with the heat gun to reveal the layers below.