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In one of my scrapbooking mags, they show you how to transfer with packing tape. You must use a fresh photocopy because you need the toner to make the transfer work. You put the tape on your photocopy and burnish with your bonefolder making sure you do top to bottom, left to right. Then you soak the whole thing for 5 min. and use your fingers, not your nails, to rub the paper off the tape. Voila!!! The image is transferred to the tape. It's probably not acid free. So keep it away from your pics if you are scrapbooking.
you can also use magazine pages, if there are graphic images, like, from a gardening magazine, that you like.
Make photocopies of your precious photos rather than use the original . .
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This technique has been around for a while, but I've never tried it. I'm intrigued by it tho and want to. It kinda reminds me of "poor man's" Lazertran . . . !
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I saw the techniique in a scrapping magazine and tried it - I used the packing tape method on color copies of photos. It does work - the photos have a kind of transparency to them.
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I have tried this method and it really comes out great. I used the 2" clear scotch tape, the kind you use on a package, but it has to be the really clear kind.
You have to use a color copy of the photo, I have tried it on a duplicate photo and it doesn't work. You place the tape over the image and then put the image in a bowl of warm water and rub the paper on the back until you get a transparent photo.
They took a fresh color copy and put clear packing tape on the picture then put it in water for a few minutes and then rubbed off the back. The slightly opaque picture stayed on the front.
i have tried this technique too! i actually went to a class at a scrapbook store in california and we did this using thin sheets (8 1/2" by 11")of clear contact paper. after we transferred our magazine images onto the plastic, we stamped on the non sticky side with staz on and pastel chalk pads. the adhesive comes back once the plastic dries and you can adhere it to your cardstock. i know that i'm not explaining it clearly enough but, it really is fun and different!
dawn
There's a handful of methods for transferring photos. I've tried the method mentioned with the masking tape and that was my least favorite. Just last night I transferred a photo on to polymer clay using the gin method. Another method that works real well is the finger nail polish method. For creating a very thin, flexible, translucent transfer Sculpey’s TLS or a medium by Liquitex works well.
The most important thing when transferring photos is that you use a photo that has been photocopied on a dry toner copy machine.
I’ve attached a link to the Carol Duvall show when she tested different methods for transferring photo’s.
My 6 year old and I have used the packaging tape and magazines a few times and they work well, you tape the picture and then run it under water and rub until all of the paper comes off and they do look pretty cool. We made his Dad's birthday card and used the Wright brothers airplane and some NASCAR's since that is what his Dad likes and we have no stamps to use that are similar. I also did a Geisha girl that was way cool and put it on an oriental background. (sorry no photo I must have given it away already)
SO give it a try with a magazine first - see if you like it - have some fun!
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