{"id":2107,"date":"2009-01-09T11:58:33","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T18:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=2107"},"modified":"2009-01-09T11:58:33","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T18:58:33","slug":"craft-parchment-paper-image-transfer-polymer-clay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/craft-parchment-paper-image-transfer-polymer-clay\/2107\/","title":{"rendered":"Craft Parchment Paper Image Transfer Technique for Polymer Clay"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Chef<\/p>\n

Testing Valerie Aharoni’s New Photo Transfer Ideas:
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A few days ago I wrote about a fellow polymer clay artist, Valerie Aharoni, and her parchment paper method for doing photo image transfers onto polymer clay. Here’s a link to the article if you<\/span> missed it: New Polymer Clay Image Transfer Technique That Works with InkJets<\/a>
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Well I finally restocked my parchment paper after using the last of it for Christmas baking, and got the chance to try out this cool polymer clay technique! Here are my results.<\/span><\/p>\n

The brand of parchment paper I bought is from Costco. It’s called Chefs Select Non-Stick Parchment Paper. It comes in an enormous 15″ x 164′ roll for just over $5.<\/span><\/p>\n

I had bought a box of it a year ago and loved it so much for my baking, that I wanted to buy the same brand again. I had heard of a few people having trouble printing on some brands of parchment paper, so I crossed my fingers that this brand would work since it is such a good value paper.<\/span><\/p>\n

First I used my paper cutter to cut a 8.5″ by 11″ sheet of parchment paper so it could be run through my laser printer. [BTW: I’ve not yet tested this with an inkjet printer but will post another article when I do.]<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Some thumbnail images were selected to print and the paper was fed into the front manual feed on the printer.<\/span><\/p>\n

The paper started the printing process normally but before it was finished, it stopped and showed a paper jam on the indicator lights. Darn… was this not going to work?<\/span><\/p>\n

I opened the machine and took out the paper. It had printed the images but hadn’t ‘heat set’ them yet because the ink was still dusty and smeared if you touched it. But by carefully lifting the sheet out of the machine, the images were still in place and perfectly clear.<\/span><\/p>\n

This made me think it still might transfer, so I carefully cut off an image from the sheet and turned it over onto a slab of polymer clay. I lifted the paper off the clay and it was a perfect transfer!<\/span><\/p>\n

Fast, easy and perfect… a little awkward to handle the sheet of ‘uncured’ images, but it worked!<\/span><\/p>\n

Thinking that the parchment paper was possibly too thin and that was the reason for not properly finishing the printing process; I thought it might be good to attach the piece of parchment paper to a regular sheet of office paper and run that through the printer instead.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cutting another sheet of parchment paper to 8 1\/2 by 11 and I taped it to a sheet of regular office paper along the top edge only. Then feeding in the taped edge first, it was ran through the printer with good success!<\/span><\/p>\n

A few of the images near the bottom of the paper were messed up but all of the images were ‘heat set’ and no longer smeared by touching them. The damaged ones were possibly due to left over ink from the last improper printing. I’ll have to see if this keeps happening and let you know.<\/span><\/p>\n

An image from this ‘cured’ sheet was laid on a fresh sheet of polymer clay and very gently rubbed with my finger. The paper was lifted off the clay and Boom! A perfect image!… No rubbing off the paper under water like the toner image transfer technique!… No using valuable Gin to get the ink to transfer! … No expensive papers to buy!… How cool is that?!<\/span><\/p>\n

Now to try the inkjet printer and get a little color into the process! I am super excited. Thanks “VAharoni”!<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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As far as availability here is a link for the Chefs Select website<\/a> with a list of retail stores that carry this brand of parchment paper.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"Cindy\"Polymer<\/p>\n

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