Transfers... Other ways... on Lutradur

Two more ways to transfer images onto Lutradur.

One is with Matte Medium and the other is with Rub on Transfers.

I have used Golden Matte Medium. Leslie Riley shows in her DVD how the process works. First you have to select the pictures or graphics you want to transfer. Then you print it onto Ink Jet Transparencies for over head projectors.

You have to remember if you are using words or a design where direction matters you need to mirror image your picture before you print.

I decided to print a page of graphics that I might use and some words.

The trick is to apply the right amount of matte medium. It is kind of like Goldilocks - not to much/not to little.

Apply a coating of matte medium over the Lutradur.

You lay the rough side of the transparency on the matte medium surface and burnish it with your tool of choose. I was using a Popsicle stick from the rub on transfers I have.

You burnish lightly and try not to move the transparency. If you move the transparency you can blur the image. Too much medium and the image will blur. A blurred image is not necessarily a bad thing. It is nice to have a selection of images done so you can pull it our of your tool box when creating.

Here some of the words blurred because I had to much medium on the sheet.

Here is the whole sheet I did.

The column on the left blurred because of too much matte medium but the cups on the right are great.

I added the words to this piece of Lutradur with a fish put on with TAP. 

The other picture of the boy fishing is a rub on transfer like the kind you use in scrap booking. 

It was cut out and laid on the Lutradur. Then it was burnished on with a Popsicle stick. 

I have in mind to make a card for my dad for fathers day with this. The picture reminds me of one of my dad as a boy. 

I made this to make a card for for a special friend. The "postcard" is a rub on transfer... and the words tool the flower was made from painted lutradur, cut out flower and a heat gun used to melt and mold the petals. A few beads sew the flower down.

Transfers are a great thing to have in your tool box. A quick card or a more complex project transferring is fun to do.


Jo Vandermey
thesewinggeek.blogspot.ca

Time to Tap...

Time to TAP…

No it is not a tap dancing lesson even though I really wanted a set of those shoes as a kid…

Today we are going to explore TAP or more correctly Transfer Artist Paper on Lutradur.

Tap is a product that Leslie Riley introduced to the world. Leslie has worked with transferring images onto fabric and other surfaces for years. In the words from her bio she explains, “In an ongoing effort to find the best ways for quilters and mixed media artists to get permanent photos on fabric, Lesley introduced Transfer Artist Paper™, named the Craft & Hobby Association (CHA) 2011 Most Innovative new product.”

Image from Leslie Riley's web shop page. 

One of my questions to Leslie was about TAP

Jo:  Transfer Artist Paper (TAP) – “Create With Transfer Artist Paper” is another book you have written. And you have another book “Creative Image Transfer – Any Artist, Any Style, Any Surface: 16 New-Mixed Media Projects Using TAP -Transfer Artist Paper coming out in September. You use the TAP product for transferring images to Lutradur. Can you share your top tips to use TAP to transfer images?

                A cover shot of Leslie Riley’s new book

Leslie: Transferring images onto Lutradur with TAP is easy-peasy and practically fool proof (user error is the fool part.) It’s as simple as printing (or drawing) your image (in reverse) onto TAP and ironing it onto Lutradur. My top tips would be:

Lutradur and TAP are both polymers/plastics, so when they are heated together they like to stay together. You should always peel TAP from any surface when hot but with Lutradur it may resist, so carefully and slowly peel. If you see an areas where you missed ironing you can always lay the TAP back down and re-iron before you completely remove the TAP from the Lutradur.

Yes, Lutradur is heat-reactive, but if you keep your iron moving continuously over the entire transfer area, it will not react to the iron heat.

Since Lutradur is translucent, what you transfer will be visible on the reverse side as well. Use that to your advantage!

Leslie also shared some images of her work with TAP.

And

Let see some of the images that I have used to transfer on to Lutradur with TAP and basically if you follow Lesley’s directions it works that easily. 

Load the TAP into your ink jet printer (do not use laser printers)

Choose a picture.

Print it

Iron it on to the Lutradur according to instructions.... 

Dover copy right free designs. TAP on Lutradur.

These would make a great start on for a special card, post card, artist trading card, or for a wall hanging. 

Here is the berries above fussy cut out and the tap ironed on. I started outlining with markers and plan to stitch on it. 

 More dover designs.... The fish I plan to use on a quilt scene for my nephew.

I put some TAP fish on the Lutradur I coloured earlier. Some stitching and maybe a few beads on the fish eyes???? I have highlighted some of the fishes fins in black. 

This picture doesn’t show up as well on the black Lutradur. It could be the print colours.

Our old car picture going through the tree circa 19?? On Lutradur with Tap.

Tap is an easy way to transfer to the Lutradur. The image is crisp and clear. Remember you must use the mirror image on you picture before you print. Because the design will be reversed. 

There are other transfer methods to Lutradur and I will cover two more in my next post.

We are nearing the end of our time with the month of May. I do have more things I have experimented with and will continue to do so. So a few more posts and then I am back to my blog which I really hope becomes a place where I show my experiments. I know now how much work goes into regular blog posts.

I thought at the beginning I would go through all of the ways to use Lutradur and show you finished mixed examples. I think the using of my samples will have to wait for my own blog. Lol

Jo

thesewinggeek

Remember to leave a comment and you could win Leslie’s e book on Lutradur.

Or

Bonus Prize

But in order to win what I call the Bonus prize you have to work harder... 

You can only be entered into the Bonus Prize by

1. Having a tip that you have shared on a posts topic.

2. Tell me you have tried something as a result of this May’s posts on Lutradur and what it was.

3. Become a follower on my blog.

(I don't want to coherence any one in becoming a follower of my blog so you can skip that one if you want to .... no pressure.)

So you can enter for Leslie's book by just by commenting any comment... (One entry per name) 

Or by doing #1, #2, and/or #3 for the Bonus Prize entry. That means you have three chances to win a package of cool Lutradur supplies.

Printing on Lutradur Part 2

Printing on Lutradur… Part 2

For three weekends in a row I have been on the road. Either the family cottage readying it for the summer or family reunion.

So while I thought I was super organized the month took a turn. No internet and no time to write… but this weekend even though I have had no internet I have been working to get the samples I have made into blog posts. So there might be a flurry of posts. There is just so much to share. When I picked up Leslie Riley’s book I did not think it would spark such a sense of play and creativity for me.

On to printing.

I had fun choosing pictures to print. I did a couple of series with Lutradur in black and white and in colour.

I tried different weights and sheets and cutting down yardage to put though the printer.

I coloured a few pieces of Lutradur to make a back wash and ran that through the printer.

I do not have a fancy printer. It is an HP which a I bought a couple of years ago to keep printing costs down for my whole family…school projects, information, moms learning habit… etc.

I have read elsewhere about Leslie’s statement that pigment inks last longer than dye inks. That is one thing I would have to investigate with my printer and ink manufacturer. So I can’t comment on brands of printers or inks.

What I can say is that I have had no problem with anything I have put through my printer when it comes to Lutradur.

With that being said when I use Lutradur from yardage or Lutradur that is coloured from yardage I do make sure that it is on a carrier sheet. What is a carrier sheet? A carrier sheet is something that is meant to attach to material so that the fabric can move through the printer.

Some people use full sheet labels. I use either freezer paper cut to a standard sheet of paper size, freezer paper commercially in standard sheet paper size or a product called Jonny Sews Stabilizer.

When you use the Jonny Sews Stabilzer  jonnyseww.com or Freezer paper the technique is the same. 

You cut the fabric in this case Lutradur to slightly smaller than the standard sheet of paper size first than iron on the freezer paper 

or as below you iron the freezer paper (Jonny Sews Stabilizer) on the Lutradur and then cut it to the size of the paper. I have used both ways with no problems.

 

Coloured sheet of Lutradur layed on a sheet of freezer paper. Put a Teflon protection sheet over top to prevent a mess on your iron and to protect the Lutradur from melting.

 Iron on a cotton setting until the freezer paper holds.

OOPs I forgot the protection sheet.

Flip the whole thing over and iron for about 30 seconds to make sure the paper is adhered. Now it is ready for the printer…

Or if you ironed the freezer paper onto the Lutradur while it was still in yardage form. Simply line up your ruler on the edge of the freezer paper and cut to size.

Once you have your Lutradur ready to go into the printer… either the plain sheets from the package or the yardage cut to size and adhered to a carrier sheet take them up to your printer and you are ready to print.

Choose a photo you want to print.

When you send it to your printer make sure the printer is set to best colour or best black and white. If you printer has special instructions for special papers follow your printers instructions.

I just put the Lutradur sheets in my printer and sent the command to print.

Printers can be particular so your just have to see what works.

Here is a series of the same picture on Lutradur.

Picture on light weight Lutradur that was lightly covered before printing with seta colour wash of yellow and green.

Light weight Lutradur run through printer.

Heavy weight Lutradur printed.

Same pictures. Same settings on the computer sent to the printer. Different looks.

You can play with the colours you paint on the Lutradur. You can play with the effects that you do on your pictures on your camera. Printing is a very quite and fun way to make a interesting visual texture.

You can print colour pictures…

Printed Lutradur with carrier paper... See how the Lutradur is porous and ink is transferred to the paper.

Or you can print coloured pictures on coloured Lutradur…

That  was a shot of tulips in my garden taken with me down at ground level shooting it towards the tree that is in the centre of this little garden. With seta paints I did the bottom half of the Lutradur in a mix of green and yellow. The top half I painted with a wash of rose pink. I didn't know how it would turn out but I love it.

This shot was from the Niagara Falls Parkway Greenhouses in Niagara Falls, Canada

Hope you try printing on Lutradur.

Next post will be on printing on fabric, printing on Lutradur and then layering the two for a neat look.

Jo

http://thesewinggeek.blogspot.ca

Give Away Reminder. 
All people who leave a comment on the and then we set it on fire blog in the Month of May is entered into the Give Away of Leslie's e-book 

Leslie Riley's e-book to be given away by C & T publishing

You get one entry for making a comment. (please make sure I can contact you via that comment) 

Bonus Prize

But in order to win what I call the Bonus prize you have to work harder... 

You can only be entered into the Bonus Prize by

1. Having a tip that you have shared on a posts topic.

2. Tell me you have tried something as a result of this May’s posts on Lutradur and what it was.

3. Become a follower on my blog.

(I don't want to coherence any one in becoming a follower of my blog so you can skip that one if you want to .... no pressure.)

So you can enter for Leslie's book by commenting any comment... (one entry per name) 

Or by doing #1, #2, and/or #3 for the Bonus Prize entry. That means you have three chances to win a package of cool Lutradur supplies.

Anyone who has commented or given me a tip etc before now is already entered... just fair. 

Thanks for reading this far! 

Jo

thesewinggeek