Textiva Film - the WOW Factor!

Textiva Fusible Film*, rubber stamp, iron and heat gun!!!  

12" X 12" Textiva Film Collage

What a great impact you can make using these four items. 

The stamped image is ghostly, yet visible and the film glistens and changes colour in response to the heat.

* Textiva Fusible Film is the material used to make Angelina fibres. It is widely available online and in craft stores. Here's a link to a great online source

Here's how you do it:

Put your rubber stamp on a hard surface, stamp side facing up. Lay a piece of Textiva film over the top of the stamp.

Stamp image ironed onto Textiva

Now layer a piece of parchment paper or teflon sheet over the Textiva film. Using your iron, glide it over the surface of the stamp, using a wool or silk setting.

The image of the stamp will appear on the film, and the heat also changes the colour of the film.

Ironed Textiva - iron too hot

I used an iridescent film, called Crystal Green Lightning, so the resulting colours were shimmering greens, reds and blues.  

I continued to put the stamp under different sections of the film, repeating the process to obtain the leaf print throughout. 

Once I had three sections of film "stamped", I attached them to a background fabric which already had fusible web applied to it, and gently ironed the film to the fabric.  

Once this was done, I took the heat gun to it and created some holes and interesting edges.

12" X 12" Textiva Film Collage

Some final interesting finds:

• Textiva Fusible film adheres to itself, so you can layer it to get a larger sheet.  

• If you use an iron that is too hot, it creates some holes in the film as the image of the stamp transfers

•  Using a non rubber stamp will melt your stamp!