Angelina Tutorial
by Sue Bleiweiss

Who hasn’t been mystified about what to do with a bag of Angelina fibers?  Their sparkle and glimmer is hard to resist but what to with them when you take them out of the bag?  Well here’s a brief introduction to these beautiful fibers!

 First make a sheet of Angelina using heat bondable fibers.

 Step 1:  Cover your work surface with a non-stick pressing sheet or a piece of parchment paper.  (If using a pressing sheet be sure to leave room to fold part of the sheet over the top of the Angelina fibers.)

 Step 2:  Put down some heat bondable Angelina fibers

Step 3:  If using a pressing sheet fold part of the sheet over the fibers.  Otherwise cover with a piece of parchment and iron with a medium to hot iron.  Keep the iron moving it should not rest in one place for more than 5 seconds or so or you may fry the fibers.  Peel back the parchment and you have a bonded sheet of Angelina!

Here’s a quick project that you can make with your new Angelina fabric.

 Cut your Angelina sheets into random shapes (you can even use a paper punch to create shapes) layer and press with a hot iron (make sure you use parchment or a pressing sheet on the top and bottom) and then add a pin back.

Here are a few more ideas for you:

 Use it for paper crafting – add it to the front of cards, journals and your scrapbooking pages.

 Embellish your clothes – Angelina is hand washable !  Use it to make appliqués shapes and sew them to a t-shirt.

Just think of your new sheet of Angelina as a sheet of paper or fabric.  Just about anything you can do with those you can do with your sheet of Angelina!

If you want to play and need Angelina you can see the colors and samplers that we stock by clicking here.  Not all colors of Angelina are heat bondable.  If you select colors that are not they can be fused using BoNash Bonding Powder.  Click here for the BoNash Starter set which includes 1 ounce of the powder and a pressing sheet.  Click here for a 2 ounce refill bottle of the powder only.  Click here for non-stick pressing sheets.

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Text & images copyright 2006 Sue Bleiweiss.  You may not copy or reproduce this information without explicit written permission.

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