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 piece of parchment paper
Step 2: Put down some heat bondable Angelina fibers
Step 3: 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 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.
Sue teaches a number of online
classes at joggles. Click
here
to see them.
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here to visit
Sue's website.
Text & images copyright 2006 Sue
Bleiweiss. You may not copy or reproduce this information
without explicit written permission.
