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.
they look great. this is lots of fun. i experimented with the angelina and stamps a couple of years ago. try mixing a bit of the violet with the blaze before ironing. you might like that.
Angelina is notoriously difficult to photograph, but you did a great job here. Very effective!
Very effective. I agree that blending another colour with the blaze would help. Alysn Midglow Marsden has made some beautiful wall hangings and bags using stamped Angelina as part of them, very rich.
I bought some Angelina some time ago to play with and haven’t got around to it yet. I really must, it looks lovely!
Thanks for taking the time to comment and I hope you continue to enjoy what I do!
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