Angelina experiments

I just wanted to play this week, to do something quick and with a bit of instant gratification and I found the perfect answer in an idea I once saw on a blog, but whose and where, I can’t remember. The idea was to make motifs by ironing angelina onto a large foam rubber stamp. I had some angelina that had been sitting in a drawer for a very long time and I’d just been ironing. Perfect!

I placed a foam rubber stamp face up on the ironing board, put a handful of angelina over it, greaseproof paper on top and pressed it for a few seconds with the iron on the silk setting.

The one on the right was my first attempt and as you can see, I left the iron on too long.  The colours are still pretty, but not as peacocky as the one on the left.

This was the image on the other side of the stamp. I think the angelina was called Ultraviolet – it really is a gorgeous colour, both before and after heat.

And this is using the other colour I had – Blaze, I think. Lovely in the packet, but not as successful at showing the image.

Then I used a medieval tile patterned stamp. Love the way this has turned out.

The same stamp in Blaze didn’t work the same at all. The Blaze changes colour much more subtly than the Ultraviolet and so the stamp shapes don’t show up as well. Neither did the 8-pointed star…

…so I gave up and used the last of the Ultraviolet to do a flower.

I really like the way these have turned out, even the Blaze ones. Looking forward to (at some point!) enhancing them with stitch and loads of sparkly beads. They would make marvellous cards.