Black Toner Image Transfers

I found some awesome brass findings to apply image transfers to. I will be selling these on my website shortly. They are solid brass and can be sanded to make the perfect surface for transfers. I don't have a color laser printer, but I do have a black toner laser printer which works great for making monogram or silhouette images. I like the simplicity of these graphic designs.

Spring is moving right along and I'm working on another book. I enjoy the process, although there aren't enough hours in the day to do all of the cool creative things I'm dying to finish. I am, however, going to try to make time for my blog and to keep up (if that is ever possible) with all of the incredibly talented bloggers out there who treat us daily with amazing handmade "eye candy".

Winter Solstice

This is a piece I made for a charm exchange. A few friends-Julie, Wendy, Adrienne and I decided it would be fun to make charms based on a winter theme. This charm was made using polymer clay set in a bezel. An image was applied and then embellished with glitter and beads. Resin adds a protective, glass like surface to the elements on the clay. On the back of the charm, I used Image Transfer Solution to apply the words on the metal. Can't wait to put all of the charms together on a bracelet. I will post the collection of all of our charms soon.

Image Transfers on Bottlecaps

My daughter, Michelle, made these Image Transfer bottle caps using our new ITS paper and toner based images. I especially like the black and white images created using our home B&W Laser Printer. Notice that the text she printed is backwards on one of the bottlecaps. This is why you need to reverse images with text before transferring. She thinks it's cool anyways, you can always hold it up to a mirror to read the (secret) message. We are going to try layering another image on the blue patterned cap at the lower right. (I will post layered techniques in a future post). ITS also works well as a varnish to finish the surface and to protect the images.