10 Minute Image Transfer on Fabric

so let's get started i printed on a piece of [Music] copy of paper cheap copy of paper i happen to have a laser printer because i print a lot of labels but um this also works with an inkjet printer too so i have a high contrast image right here another example of a high contrast image will be something like this in completely black and white like this but um i like vintage photographs so that's what we will use this i got from the graphics fairy online and it was a free image and mickey will include a link if you want to use the same image so i have this image in black and white you can do it in color too i just don't have a color printer so i'm going to cut around the edges i'm not going to leave any white showing now luckily this is a rectangle but if you had an image which was a shape like this this is a book cover i made yesterday you would cut around as best you could the image you wouldn't want to leave too much um white paper on here you would have to leave a tiny bit to make it hold together but you want you would want to cut fairly close around that image otherwise you're going to get like a white shadow effect okay so cut out your high contrast image say this is plain copy of paper and a black on a black and white laser but it will also work on inkjet for my fabric i'm using a piece of white quilting cotton i'm just i'm gonna heat up my iron i just want to i've got my eye into my side of me i will show you in a minute um this is white quilting cotton this is white muslin the tighter the weave of the fabric you use the crisper the image but i will show you later on that i did some image transfers on more open weave and it looks really good so don't feel like you have to use tightly woven cotton so this is um kona cotton from the the quilting store and it's just plain white cotton that you would use in quilting i'm just going to get some of those wrinkles out if i can so i've made it a little bit bigger than my image but by all means do a large piece like i did um here i did a much larger piece and then made book cloth with it so use a size of fabric that feels appropriate to the project you have in mind i just sort of like to have these little images lying around so i can collage with them i'm just going to iron the wrinkles out of this i have an iron right next to me there we go so underneath i have a silicone mat which i have um used before i believe this is a tim holtz but you can just get them no offense to tim holtz he's a genius but um they can be purchased much cheaper on amazon um just silicone mats in the baking department and they're just as good i think you get like five or six for the same price as one tim holtz um okay focus on the camera let me see i'm just checking is the camera out of focus i don't think so um i did not wash the fabric [Music] um no it doesn't even occur to me to wash fabric um because i'm making a book and this will never run through the wash if this was a fabric book that you were going to um maybe wash for some reason although i don't know why you would no it was in a project that you're gonna wash then yeah sure pre-wash i never pre-washed that again just feels like way too much time for me um i don't have all the wrinkles out but that's fine um if these wrinkles bothered you you could pre-wash it for sure and i'm sure they would come out let me just check your um questions so daria would wash it to get the sizing out yeah um i'm just darn lazy unfortunately so i'm gonna use matte medium there are many matte mediums on the market and i know that you all have your favorites this is my favorite feel free to put your favorite in the comments um whether it's a golden whether it's a liquitex any other brand if you live overseas please share um what country you're in and what your favorite is this is just an acrylic matte medium and i like the utrecht one and i get it from dick blick but this is not specific to this brand you choose the brand that you like the best um oh mickey's just popped a link in thank you but yes i'd be curious to know what you um oh sorry the light has gone ah the sun's gone in i'm done there we go oh gee that's a weird blue color the sun will come back out in a minute so yeah pop in the comments your favorite brand of matte medium i have a brush i think it's a one and a half inch brush maybe it's a one inch brush here we go here comes the sun again i um always put a piece of um cling film or saran wrap on here because otherwise it sticks just put that to one side so if you don't have a silicon mat um that's no big deal just use plastic just use you know a plastic um sheet protector or just some kind of plastic it's fine but you don't want you don't want to do this on paper you want to do this on something non-stick the amount that you do put on the image is quite important um the way i like to think of it is well the way i in my mind this is how i do it i put a big blob like this let me come in a bit closer hold on it's coming a bit closer hopefully you can see that i could get a great blob and cover it so that i can see white lines see i can see white white hunks of matte medium then i get my brush and i wipe it off [Music] into the pot so there's hardly any left then what i do is i drag like this and then scrape it back off in here this gives me a nice even layer so that when i'm done it's shiny but there's no white on here no you can't see the white matte medium so it's a nice shiny layer i went in both directions i'm not going a ton back and forth back across i just smoothed it out got rid of the excess and now i have like an even fairly thin layer honestly though with your brand you're just gonna have to practice take your fabric if there's um a side to it a pattern it goes face down like this just press on my fingers and then i'm getting my teflon bone folder and i'm rubbing back and forth like this honestly i pray this words because literally i do not have another one here putting my life on the line here my reputation on the line can't she do an image transfer live okay something to give i'm giving it a good rub i'm gonna carefully lift it off if the paper sticks to the um silicone just gently lift it and flip over like this and rub so that's a little bit wrinkled on the edge but that's okay give it another good rub so at this point you would normally leave overnight and so then i've just lost interest like you know i'm done at this point if you say overnight i've already i've lost my thread so what i'm to do is take a heat gun so do you remember the heat guns we used to have for um stamping for the um embossing powder this is stamping up one but you can get them you can still get them in craft stores um but you could also use a um hair dryer would just take longer so i am i have a um a tile like this my little hot stuffed tile and i am going to um dry it let me move away from the [Music] microphone a little bit i'm gonna dry it for about a minute with the heat gun so let me move the microphone away um if you have questions pop them in the chat um i don't think it does smear with an inkjet printer no it's my understanding it doesn't smear [Music] so so [Music] so [Music] okay folks i would say that was that about a minute maybe a bit more will this work with a magazine photo i don't know phyllis why don't you try let us know i would love to know that um yes the paper needs to be dry so if you're using a hair dryer it would take longer than with a heat gun and i was putting that heat gun pretty close right so um and yeah this feels dry i may give it one more blast i'm just gonna answer your questions um the the heat gun literally was like an inch and a half away it's really pretty close um so patricia makes a very good point um should the image have been printed in reverse if you want text to appear patricia i don't mind but if you wanted text to appear um you would definitely print it in reverse for sure um margaret it would take longer with a hair dryer i believe okay thanks phyllis all right i'm gonna give it one more blast and then we will dunk it in some water [Music] okey dokey so then i have a pot of water here just a tap water and i am going to come out a little bit i'm going gonna leave it in here for about three minutes while i show you some examples so i'm just gonna leave it in there for about three minutes i think two would be fine as well we'll do three and i'm going to show you just some examples of different fabrics um i've been experimenting with to give you some ideas while that soaks i might even just put my phone timer on just to do three minutes right so today's facebook live we can um you know we'll be taking breaks for coffee while the thing runs all right let's put our timer on for about three minutes well not three hours i don't think you guys would stick with me for three hours okay there we go so here's some um of the same image on some different fabrics that i um created to show you uh the difference so let's have a look so this started out this is the white that we are doing today that was a mistake i somehow there was some yellow on my paper so this was the white let me come in a bit closer for you that's pretty crisp right so that's on the tightly woven white this is the tightly woven white and then after the image transfer had been done i dunked it in tea let's sit in a cup of tea for a while so that's the same fabric but in white then i did muslin which had got a more open weave let me um if you can see but this weave is more open and so the image was less crisp but not much so that was a muslin that i used same image same procedure i used a piece of turquoise fabric which was tightly woven it was quilting cotton again um i the transfer wasn't as good i you know rubbed off too much ink you can see get a nice image on colored fabric um judy is asking can you wash the fabric without the transfer coming off i do not know oh well we're dunking it in water so yes i don't know if you could put it through a washing machine judy with detergent but um soaking it in a pot of water is fine and then finally um well second to last i did another one on white and then i dyed it with i painted it with watercolors i did this bright color which is not really my cup of tea it's kind of ready pink but i just want you to see um what the effect would be like so this was literally just painted with a wash of watercolor and that was done on the white and then this one here i thought was very interesting very cool um this is a more open weave fabric let me flip it over so you can see this is the selvage on here do you see this is fairly open weave now this is one i got from claudia at colorway arts who does the boxes and um i really like how this came out this woven fabric and mickey will include a link for you because i sent it to her this morning and then here is a book cover that i made with that same fabric so i liked it so much i put this flower on there on a larger piece and then i'll show you in a minute how i backed it with um fusible webbing to create book cloth but um so this was and then i think i'd put on the back um a ledger paper so this is going to be a book cover and i'll make a oops there we go i'll make a um a plain cover for the back we just haven't got that far yet but yeah i thought this fabric was really nice i thought it might appeal to you so i would experiment with fabrics too i know the general wisdom is that oh it must be a tightly woven cotton but i found that not to necessarily be true so um you can still get a nice image it just won't be as crisp so there are those all right so our three minutes is up let me just check your questions thank you roseanne um okay my mother is my friends so it's had three minutes set aside the water so i'm just going to keep it on my silicone the first layer of paper we're going to peel the paper off the back and leave the ink on the fabric that's the idea anyway so the first layer should just rub off with your fingers so i'm just using two fingers and i'm rubbing like the sort of initial heavy layer off this is this is the low hanging fruit this is easy this part right here so using two fingers dragging it from the middle out so that the um paper goes off the page the trouble about this is it's really uh it's messy i was doing this yesterday after and then i went to the grocery store and i looked down and like my t-shirt was like covered in little rolls of paper i also wonder what i've been up to so there's the initial layer obviously we don't leave it like that um then i use a rag i just use a scrap of muslin that i have lying around you can use smaller pieces if you want to little pieces like this or a larger piece um i wouldn't use a tissue because you'll get lint on there and oops took away some of it so that's what you want to avoid you want to avoid taking away any of the ink so i am now i am pressing hard i don't know if you can hear it let me come a bit closer so perhaps you can hear but i'm i'm pushing pretty firmly i'm going from you could do little circles if you wanted to but i'm just doing it from the middle out so that um it goes off the paper so some little circles just check the questions can you transfer text yep you just have to reverse it and that's a good question daryl um just reverse it in your printer i think it's there's a setting in your printer to mirror text okay i'm just going to dump this in the trash because there's lots of little bits of paper on my piece of fabric and then we'll just keep going and then once i've got this layer off so see here i've taken a little bit extra i i suspect i did not have um enough matte medium on there but to be honest i kind of actually like the way that looks looks kind of grungy you know what i should slow down okay so you just keep going keep going keep going keep going until all the pieces are coming off are getting tinier and tinier so initially we started out with big rolls then we've got some medium-sized pieces and now the piece is coming off a fairly tiny so what we're going to do is um dry it one more time and what will happen when we dry it is that well let's see what happens when we dry it i'm going to dry it one more time oh you know this is um the yellow this is from my mat i must have had some ink on here all right one more dry [Applause] okay so you can see she's gotten fuzzy again right so let's give her another spritz and get some more off so it really takes a little patience but there's no leaving overnight which honestly it's just never gonna happen for me okay all right now my friends let me dry it see how our shadowy still a bit more on there so here is my magic trick and this actually is not my magic trick i will tell you this is from my friend um andrea shablow she told me this trick it's a mr clean imagine a magic wreath mr clean [Music] magic eraser so you can get these i i believe what they're for is um paintwork for getting dirty marks off paint so i believe and you can buy store brands of these and this is the magic trick for getting that final haze off your image so you see i'm just rubbing outwards outwards outwards outwards like this i will tell you i've do you know i think the reason we're getting the um pieces of um ink coming off i just i'm not sure i put enough matte medium on i'm not taking off too much matte medium that's okay it's life right so you're going to go in with this magic eraser and gently remove those final final pieces and if you want to you can um dry it again see where the haze is and then go back over and get rid of and you're gonna it's gonna accumulate on here so you want to kind of brush it off and just sit here pop the tv on and just work it really doesn't take that long to get that final um sheen off i kind of like the way she looks like this little bits and pieces missing um so that was probably longer than 10 minutes folks but um because i've shown you what to do but that's to show you that you can do a bunch of these in an afternoon and there's absolutely no reason to wait overnight so here is um how this will look when it's dried probably how it looks when it dries this is just a little bit wet still but let me see if there's any questions i like that some of the image rubbed off yeah i think it looks kind of aged so debbie likes to do it with her fingers yeah you know i just i'm not a big one for using my fingers um i'm a tool pusher thank you is this is it the same to transfer to paper um well i certainly wouldn't um let me think to paper perhaps folks here can let us know i've only been practicing on um fabric this week so who um who in the comments would like to make talk about their experience with paper i generally do my image transfers with gel medium rather than matte medium so i'd be curious to know everyone thinks yes arlene it can be a colored photo that's a great question um so daria says she doesn't have a heat gun because she got rid of it just leave it overnight then but you know like i say i'm too impatient to wait overnight so i could like i could just kind of sit here and work on this just to finish it up but i won't because you'll be brought to tears um but this really i'd say i have andrea to um thank for this i'm just going to pop this here so you can see it um and i saw these in the grocery store yesterday and like own brands like local groves and i think scotch does them too i think it has a green thing on the back and a white one on the front um i'm sure there's a uk and european equivalent it's meant for getting like i say a dirty marks of paint that is the magic trick okay so um sj nevidge says it it's the same procedure just don't soak for so long just spritz yeah susan says are the overnight image transfer direction on the website um no i haven't put these on the website yet although i do have some notes here apparently i wasn't i didn't even look at it so i will put my notes on the website with um the video apparently making notes is it really good when you actually read them so anyhow that is our girl for today um i just did want to quickly show you how i make book cloth from an image transfer because again it might be a little bit counterintuitive let's get rid of this puppy might be somewhat counter-intuitive because it uses heat but um so here's one i did i did her our girl our reading girl on a piece of fabric which is um it's printed it's printed with this um text and i got it on etsy and i know you're going to ask me where from and mickey will put a link in um i got it um from a great seller on etsy just drinking my coffee because andy took the trouble to make it for me so i'm gonna make a piece of book cloth very similar to um well not similar to in the same way that i did this um this lady also on actually has this fabric which i think is really interesting it looks like um an eco print which she scanned and made into fabric i can imagine this would look really interesting with some kind of image transfer over the top two so um don't discard patent fabrics you know you can definitely do image transfer on these pen fabrics and again this is a fairly open weave i think you can see right here it's pretty open so um and she came out nice so the way that i like to do my uh i love it [Music] i can't make the word book cloth book club menopause mind here is to use fusible webbing so um again because you have to wait overnight for if you make book cloth with wheat paste which is fine but i really don't like waiting overnight like if i have an idea i just kind of want to keep following the idea and i don't want to keep stopping for things to drive a night drives me nuts so i really like this product here if you live in a different country you'll have different brands but it's it's a fusible webbing um and this fusible webbing it's adhesive on both sides and it's backed with paper both sides so you would not don't let's see if you can see that there's the adhesive right there and then there's some on the back what i really like about these is um the size they're nine inches by 12 inches um so it's just they're just a good size and they store easily but i have also been using this product here which is let me hold it steady one under a heavy duty wonder under it comes on a roll which you know is probably easier to store but it's rolled so i find it a little more difficult to work with but it's the same principle as the steamer seam that's made by the same company and i'm sure there are other brands like this and then the difference with this one is there's only paper on one side so if you can see oh there we go there's just paper on one side so you would um so i'm going to show you how to use this with the wonder under because i believe i've showed you how to use this one before let me show you with the wonder under so i cut a piece i cut a piece of the wonder under and what i'm gonna back it with is a piece of copier paper normally i use like a thin scapu thin japanese sketch paper or a mulberry paper but not everyone has access to that so i wanted to show you you can just use a piece of coffee paper i'm just checking [Music] um so i'm just checking the comments so i just wanted to make it a little more accessible for folks who don't have um access to the japanese paper so let's just i'm going to cut this down scissors you could use your rotary cutter too right i'm going to make a little bit smaller than my fabric i feel like the roll is more cost effective as well then the sheets i will say i'm just going to make this a little bit narrower remember the roll of the wonder under only has paper on one side and the sheets of steamer seam has paper on both [Music] so essentially okay let's get rid of the heat gun by the way if you're using the heat gun remember to unplug it at night i know someone whose house burned down because they left it plugged in and the cat knocked it over and burned their house down luckily she survived but so every time of course i use my um heat gun i'm like completely paranoid about um burning my house down so um i have got it on a wool setting because this is slightly plasticized from the um matte medium so we don't want to uh we don't want to melt this so i would put it onto like wool or even uh yeah wool or silk so a number two and i'm using a dry iron and i'm just going to give it a little iron i'm just going to go around the image i don't want to i'm tempted by ironing straight over the image i'm getting on my iron okay so we're going to place this face down like this i'm going to lay so we have adhesive on this side paper on this side i'm gonna lay this down and give an iron to melt that adhesive so this is just a table top kind of ironing board which i like to have because i'm having the ironing board set up all the time is a pain in the neck i don't have the space so i'm sure many of you um have something similar let me see oh thank you mickey she put in the etsy fabric so that's it's called heaton bond light great yeah these pr i mean there isn't one single product for this right it's just whatever your local store sells okay just let that cool for a second i'm gonna pull this off actually you know what do you know what i'm thinking i'm going to change my mind because quite honestly this paper here is actually fine we could use this i was going to put copy i was going to pull this off and then stick the copier paper on top but quite frankly let's just think on the fly this paper here is really great it's nice and thin so in fact i think i'm just going to use this straight on my book board you know you use this straight on um to attach it to a piece of i'm going to glue it to a piece of board so what i will do is trim it up [Music] with my rotary cutter and where is my here it is i'll trim it up with my rotary cutter and then um some nice book cloth go folks thinking on the fly thinking on the fly [Music] so just even it up and then use you know in your project however you would like so we have 10 minute image transfer and like three minute um three minute book cloth that's like you know maybe 15 minutes in total that's the kind of speed i like to work okay let me just finish trimming up these edges i'm not going to show you how i cover my book ball because you've seen me do that a thousand times [Music] there's my piece of book cloth if i wanted to iron the front of this i would just put a piece of um copy paper [Music] quickly i would also put it on this too otherwise i'll warp my cutting mat there we go that that didn't stick at all so you can iron over that image transfer very lightly if you wanted to um someone asked about inkjet printers earlier i think that you can probably um set an inkjet image with um heat as well before you do the image transfer so okay the sun's gone in again all right folks um so that is so this is essentially what i did i made book cloth with this image right here and then i wrapped it around my board trimmed it and then you know put an end sheet on so into this paper so here are my other image transfers if you just want to see them one more time this was on muslin this was on plain white here's my one which hasn't quite dried yet this was on white with watercolors this was on a turquoise piece of fabric this was on white and then i dunked in my cup of tea minus the milk and then this was done on a type of linen so sorry about the light let me go turn on the big light we go and just to reiterate we used a matte medium to create the transfer i like the utrecht one we use the matte medium we use the heat gun and then the magic tool at the end was the mr clean eraser that's all that's that's what we have today let me flip the camera around don't need hello let's see if you have any questions what is the cloth used to iron on in place of an ironing board um i don't know there is a cloth isn't there there's like a silk type of silver cloth i forget what it's called someone will know though um oh sandra says i can't make a straight cut with a rotary tool is there a trick um the trick is a sharp blade sorry the trick is a sharp blade and um [Music] just to hold the i would say a sharp blade stand up when you're doing it sitting down is not good stand up and then um put a lot of pressure on the ruler to hold it in place and sort of um going to keep your arm close to your body and then sort of put a lot of pressure kind of from the the hip of the elbow rather rather than just kind of sitting back and trying to cut cut like this it's best to kind of be above it and then sort of put quite a lot of force behind it so and then just keeping the ruler really um steady with your hand it's another trick and if anyone else has more tricks please let me know because i'm not it's not i don't do it like every single day um let me see i promise you pat you can do this you can do this uh let me see i'm just checking questions uh what is the cutting tool called it's a little rotary cutter by clover from japan i think it's a one-inch blade um i just thought it was cute because it's small and i cut quite small pieces for you know working with books and things so um the ironing board is from joanne's so on one side it's an um you know an ironing mat and then on the other side is a cutting mat so you can flip it over and the size is um the finished the grid is 10 by 10 but the whole thing is probably um more like 12 by 12. so yeah just joanne's just the fabric stuff and like you know with the coupon it was cheap um oh my goodness oh judy says she can't wait to see the new studio no can we it's a work in progress judy um thank you linda for that link oh john i'm just looking make sure yeah i know oh i've cut my fingers so many times on rotary cutters tell us again what you said about the inkjet please absolutely um i don't have a ton of experience using inkjet um prints but i think that if you um felt like it would smear when you put on the matte medium i i'm just guessing you could probably heat set it like with an iron maybe you could put a piece of scrap paper at the top and then heat set it with an iron and that might help i'm just guessing um but it's my understanding this works with this method works with inkjet as well as laser prints that's what i was told um you can do it sharon honestly if i can do it you can do it and there's no overnight there's no proving um thank you debra i like this angela says now she knows what to do tomorrow yeah right just and go on graphics fairy because there's so many images and she has it all so well um not necessarily well laid out but just um done by category so he has vintage fishing and vintage um women vintage botanicals leaves animals it's a great it's a great resource um thank you it was a quick one today folks pretty quick 10 45. so um what was i going to say to you if you're in the handmade book club which many of you are um remember that tomorrow we have our mixed-media lesson with kat kirby we'll be making um the funky pockets if you are not a member of the book club we would love to have you and we will be opening up for new members in july so stay tuned make sure you are on the newsletter um to to find out when it opens up again but so to book club members i will see many of you tomorrow at noon eastern for kat kirby's four funky pockets and we're gonna be doing a four funky pocket swap it's very exciting um all right oh angela says graphics fairies goes by color too nice phyllis has used inkjet and the rubbing off is a bit tricky yeah try some heat setting or go to the copier shop and get some laser prints made or talk to a friend who has a laser printer i have to tell you i did kid myself that the reason i was buying a laser printer is because i have to print lots of shipping labels i really don't have to buy lots of shipping labels i got the laser printer because i thought would be better for image transfer but that's between you and me all right um brenda says brenda has a fantastic question will there be another five day challenge yes they will we will be doing another five day challenge in fact i'm dreaming up the book right now it may it may involve it's gonna be another coptic book because everyone likes that but we're going to do a different cover this time so another coptic stitch book but a different type of cover a different type of cover attachment so we'll see um so good question uh wendy no it's not on facebook tomorrow no it is in um zoom it's on a zoom um meeting tomorrow so yes if you're a book club member we will um be meeting on zoom tomorrow i'll be sending out a reminder very shortly once i finished here so all right well thank you folks thank you for being here i appreciate it thank you for your patience while i did my image transfer live didn't come out too bad could have been better but i'm pretty happy with the way that turned out considering um thank you for your support thank you for showing up here every thursday i appreciate it i can't see your faces but i feel like they're smiling on the other side of the computer at me um i really appreciate it i appreciate all the kind comments and the way that you support me and um keep me showing up here every thursday and so i will um catch you all very soon in one way or another if i don't see you in the book club i will see you here next thursday morning for some jelly printing fun next week just to mix things up a bit all right have a wonderful day folks i will talk to you all soon

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Published: Fri May 28 2021