and i dug these three swatches of fabric out of my stash and i'm going to use those
inside of my frames all three of these pieces of fabric
are a bit of a cotton blend and i think that works the best with this technique
you want to press them with the iron and make sure they're nice and flat and that makes it easier
to work on and this is what i found that works the best to transfer your graphics onto fabric
you want to get these mailing label sheets or these cd sheets um and i found these at the thrift
store you're going to peel off the sticker part of it because we want to use the paper underneath
we are going to print on the shiny side of this type of paper and it will only work
with a laser jet printer this technique will not work with an inkjet printer
i found these label sheets at the dollar store i've seen them in office supply stores but most
the time i find them in the thrift store i pick them up because people don't use these
type of papers that much anymore and you can get them a lot cheaper so keep your eye out for them
and of course you want to print them on the shiny side i've loaded this into my
laserjet printer and printed it off on the shiny side and this is what it looks like
i put these graphics into my word program and then i sized them to what i needed to fit into
the frame i have a brother laser jet printer which i love i have printed off hundreds of graphics on
it and never had any problems i'll put a link down below in the description for the model that i have
and you want to make sure when you're cutting it down to size that you don't touch the graphics
because you will rub the ink off now we're ready to prep our fabric and we're going to
put a liberal amount over the whole piece of fabric right to the edges so it doesn't fray
you can also use your gloss mod podge if you want you'll just have a glossy finish
on your product or you can also buy the fabric mod podge and it will hold up in the washing
machine because i'm just making these into pictures to put into picture frames
i don't need to worry about having to put them in the washing machine
okay now after the first coat we're going to let it completely dry
and now we're going to apply a second coat
and now we're going to let that completely dry also
so this now has two coats of completely dried mod podge on the fabric and now we're
just going to take a really light coat and just spread it all over on top of the fabric
because what we're going to do is we're going to place the graphic on top of this wet mod podge
i tried to apply the graphics onto just the two coats of the dried mod podge
i didn't really get that great results it worked sometimes and sometimes it didn't so i found
when i put this light coat on top of it that was wet and put the graphic on it it worked perfect
and now you want to place that label sheet face down right on that fabric and press it down make
sure there's no wrinkles no bubbles don't let it move around you if it moves around on you you'll
have the lettering smear so just hold it really tight and work all the bubbles and wrinkles out of
it i'm now going to iron on that label sheet onto the fabric and i've got a piece of parchment paper
and i'm just going to just gently just iron that down now it might sizzle a little bit
because you've got the wet mod podge underneath but it dries really quickly
and now comes a big reveal you won't believe how well this transfers onto this fabric
and sometimes you might get a little bit of mod podge on the little corners it'll come right off
just find a corner and it should just peel right away and you can
see how crisp and clean all those letters are that have been transferred onto that fabric
isn't that amazing i am thinking of all the projects i can do using this technique
and now I'm just gonna work away and do my other two swatches for my frames and
if you like these graphics that i've used don't forget to head over to my Etsy store
you can pick them up use the code save 50 you'll get 50 off all of my graphics and these are
i think around a dollar a piece and you get four different files it's already reversed ready to use
and i forgot to mention before i have my iron set at six
the highest setting and make sure you don't use any steam
and i always like to test the little corner halfway through to see that it's adhering well
and if you see that it still needs a little bit of ironing just go back over it until
you know that it's all been ironed down
and there's nothing more satisfying as a crafter to see this turn out so nice and crisp
and because i put the mod podge right out to the edge of the fabric it won't fray so i'm just going
to cut off the edges just to make it a little bit neater and it's ready to put in the frame
do
so i'm going to put these together now and i'll show you how fabulous
they're going to look in these frames and you can put them with the glass or
without the glass i actually think i like this one better maybe without the glass
and i love these they turned out perfect and i also love the quotes
being a thrift store junkie let me know what you think and let me
know if you've ever tried this technique down in the comments
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