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Instructions Instructions for Transfer Ink! project by Jill Meyer
1.Print out a vintage color photograph. Heighten the color slightly before printing.
back2. Transfer photo to white cardstock following the directions below. A soft rubber brayer was used to transfer this photo. 3. Edge transfer with a copper leafing pen. Run through Xyron 900 machine with permanent adhesive. 4. Age the front and back of a jumbo playing card with Plaid Folkart Antiquing Medium- Antigua. 5. Use mono adhesive to adhere beaded fringe to card. 6. Adhere transfer to beaded card.
Materials:
Lay the master on the substrate and hold or tape both so that there is no movement while you transfer and then spray. You will never know exactly what you will get, which is part of the magic of working with it, but you do gain a certain "intuition" about it after making only a few transfers. T-Ink! produces a very dreamy, watercolor effect, and is very artistic and beautiful. The master should be made only on regular printer, or copier paper. Some Epson printers which use Durabright water-proof ink will not work. All others seem to work beautifully.
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Transfer Ink! is actually not ink, but a clear liquid. It is called Transfer Ink! because of what it does,.... it transfers ink! It works beautifully with standard color or black inkjet printouts, and with the Stewart Superior India Ink pad for stamped images. It is important to spray to wet the back of the master with the fluid, just until you can see the image appear on the back of the master. Then you brayer the back of the master using medium pressure, rub with a cotton ball or cosmetic sponge, or use the bottom of the bottle to rub, until you see the transfer on the substrate. It only takes a few seconds. Matte cardstock, Kraft paper, smooth watercolor paper all give great, but very different looking results. Textured papers can yield very interesting results as well. Printouts of b/w or color photographs are dynamite when transferred. On color transfers, if you want the transfer to be more bold than pastel, simply heighten the color of the printout master a little. You will often be able to get several generations of transfers from one master, so if the first one is too defined, the second will have less definition, and each will be successively less defined, and lighter.