ANGELINA FRAMES, FLAMES & FLOWERS

 I have a stash of Angelina Film (& Angelina Fibres) from my days as a cloth doll maker decades ago. It's wonderful stuff and creates amazing shapes, and changes colour, and you can burn holes in it when using a heat gun. For this class, I used a tea-light candle to melt and shape strips to make the flowers and smoke/flames. If you have some, dig it out and have a play. Don't put it directly in the flame though, aim it for the warm airflow directly above the flame, about 4 or so inches above the top of the flame. That'll be enough to heat it and distort it. It gets hot so maybe use tweezers to hold and shape the strips so you don't burn yourself. Ask me how I know! 🔥 
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"Toxique"


"I'm under your bed"

"Life is art"

"I am that kind of girl"

"Trust the timing"

"Sea the positive"

STENCILS & STAMPING

 Stencils and stamping work so well together and it doesn't matter if you want to use your more open-style stamps or the solid silhouette stamps, both look great. The ink I've found works the best for stamping the black focal images is the Versafine Clair in Nocturne (black). It is a pigment-based ink and is extremely black and juicy which means it covers the stencilled design really well. I chose to use Distress Oxide Inks for the stencil colours as these are very opaque in colour so show up perfectly on the Bristol Smooth card. Of course, Oxides and the black Versafine Clair will both stay wet for quite some time and on some of my atc's I was worried about smearing the inks so I used super fine clear embossing powder after the stencilling and stamping part of this technique. It may not stick to all of the stencilled areas but that doesn't matter as imperfections in embossing are not an issue as far as I'm concerned, particularly when it is clear embossing powder!

"On the inside"

"Live everyday"


"Mind like a lens"


"People"


"Choose to shine"


"Collect beautiful moments"