Not managing to do the challenge on the day, cause of the chaos. But I did have a go at something I was keen to try, image transfer on fabric. Now, to be fair, my transfer was on the smooth side of a scrap of leather, one that I got in the grab-bag when the local glove factory closed down. It worked pretty much as you would expect it to!
You can see how clear the transfer was.
So the issue might be how waterproof the image is. In this case I tried heat-setting it with my embossing gun, then tried wiping the paint away with a baby wipe. I mean, you aren’t going to toss a leather anything in the washing machine, now are you? The paint didn’t move.
I pulled the image off without adding more paint, so the image is not as dark as I maybe would like, but it works for me.
I think this could work as a patch on a jacket, for example, but I do have a few ideas to also try:
- will it work on materials other than leather?
- would it be more permanent if the image was transferred using something like clear gesso?
- what about gel medium instead? what about sealing it with Fabric Mod Podge?
- …
So yeah, I am thinking this challenge is doing what it says on the tin – challenge participants to push the edges of the envelope and try crazy new things. Love that!
Seems I did I: Image Transfer here but I am not really claiming double days, so I still need to have another go at that with a different sort of technique…
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