Creative Textures with Fluffy Stuff

Create Snow and Fur Texture
For the festive penguin tag, apply the Fluffy Stuff directly to areas where you want soft dimensional texture, such as the fur trim around the hat and the pom-pom. The fine nozzle allows you to follow small shapes accurately, and any ridges can be gently smoothed before heating. Once applied, heat the paste with a craft heat tool and watch it expand into a raised, fluffy surface. The texture remains attached to the card and does not stay sticky or flatten back down. You can also dot small amounts to create dimensional snowfall. Vary the size and spacing of the dots so the finished snow looks more natural when it puffs up.

Use Fluffy Stuff as a Mixed Media Texture
The same product can also become the foundation for a completely different type of project. For the beach scene, begin with a blank tag and use the Fluffy Stuff almost as though you are drawing with it. Build larger, irregular shapes along the bottom for foreground rocks, leaving small gaps between them rather than joining everything together. Add smaller rocks as the scene moves further into the distance. The uneven gaps become an important part of the finished effect, as darker paint can settle between the raised areas and help define the individual stones.

Continue upwards through the scene by drawing uneven lines for the shoreline and waves. Use slightly thicker areas where you want the waves to puff up more prominently, gradually making the details smaller as they move towards the horizon. In the sky, add loose broken shapes for clouds rather than trying to make them perfectly smooth or symmetrical. The aim is to create texture that can later be incorporated into the painting rather than a precise finished image at this stage. Heat the entire piece until the Fluffy Stuff has expanded. At this point you already have a strongly textured surface ready for colour.

Paint Over the Fluffy Stuff
Once the Fluffy Stuff has been heated and fully expanded you can paint directly over the raised texture using paints you already have in your craft collection. For the beach scene, Sheena uses watercolours to build the sky, sea, sand and rocks, allowing the colour to flow across both the card and the textured areas. The Fluffy Stuff takes the paint well, so the raised details become part of the finished artwork rather than sitting separately on top.

Add darker shades around and beneath the textured rocks and waves to emphasise their dimension, then use an opaque white paint such as gouache to pick out foamy wave crests, clouds and highlights. A light dry-brush over the raised texture is an easy way to bring out even more of the detail.You can keep the colours pale for a soft coastal look or build stronger shades for a more dramatic scene. Cosmic Shimmer Fluffy Stuff can be much more than a festive snow or fur effect – becoming a versatile texture medium for mixed media, landscapes and all kinds of dimensional craft projects.