More Fun!

Sheesh, hard to believe that this week is nearly over! And what's more, it is a three-day Holiday weekend with no plans. No plans! Yippee!!! We can kick back and relax. I hope you get a chance to relax and recharge too, my lovelies.

I've been plotting and planning blog posts all week. Trying to finish projects and experiments. Trying to get things photographed. Getting those photos cropped and sized. And that's not even mentioning getting projects in the mail to various other people to work on them. Yes, I am in more than a couple of Round Robins. I'm cutting back on swaps where I think about it forever and then work like a mad wabbit to get pages done and mailed to some hapless, unsuspecting hostess who thinks I am a responsible adult who will get her pages in on time. At least so far I don't think I've been last. Regardless, I've been working hard to try to get you more blog posts.

And finally, here I am writing to my lovelies to tell you what exactly I've been working on!

More paper casting, but that's in the next post. This post? Ohh...

Transfers! (Can you hear the Ta-Da! ??? No? Hmmm...)

OK, how about transfers that work every time???? (I thought you'd hear it now!)

Yes, you read that right. I had seen a You Tube video of Claudine Hellmuth at the most recent CHA in January where she was demonstrating transfers using Adirondack Daubers Acrylic paints to accomplish the transfer of a photo from a photocopy or laser print to a tag covered in Dauber paint. I think the one she did was a black and white print on gold metallic paint on a tag. It was pretty cool. Then I heard her tell the women to whom she was demonstrating the technique that she thought it up because there are only three ways you can accomplish a transfer: with a solvent, with a goop of some sort (gel medium, etc.), or with blah blah blah, I can't recall what the last one was.

Hmmm... if that led Claudine to paints, where might it lead me? I wasn't thrilled with having to have every possible color of Dauber at $4 each. I could mix my own acrylics from the assortment of heavy body or fluid acrylics I have here. Fluid acrylics. Hmmm... same consistency of PPA. Too bad I can't use PPA (aka Perfect Paper Adhesive, my favorite glue). Why can't I? And it has the advantage of drying clear so it won't give a background color or affect the color of the photo!

Here's a finished one that I put into a Calendar Journal page on which I was working. If you look closely, you can read the text through the tail.

I am LOVING this technique!!!