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any great diy content today i'm going to show you how you can do graphic transfer with wax paper
it's kind of a tricky process if you can figure it out though it works really good if you need
to make something really quick because there's no waiting time so i'm going to show you today
how to do that it's not my favorite type of graphic transfer because it's not crisp and
clean looking but it's fun to learn how to do the technique so i'm going to show you today
let's get started today we're doing wax paper graphic transfer really easy technique all you
need is some wax paper it will only work on wax paper won't work on parchment paper so make sure
you have some wax paper you need a little credit card of some sort to burnish your graphic and i've
cut a piece of the wax paper the exact size of a piece of paper so we can feed it through our
printer and this is the graphic that i'm going to use now when you're doing your graphics for this
technique you have to make sure that you reverse them so this is what it's going to look like
when you have it printed out on your wax paper for the technique and for this process i am going to
use this piece of wood and i think i might have picked it up at michael's maybe just a piece of
um thin wood and i've painted it with some white chalk paint to do the transfer on top of if you're
interested after you watch this tutorial in using this graphic it will be available in my etsy store
you can grab it and it already has a file that's already reversed so you don't have to worry about
fooling around and trying to figure out how to reverse your own graphics you can use it right
away on your own computer when you're printing off on this wax paper you want to make sure when you
feed it through your printer that you're printing on the glossy side the side that has the wax on it
this only has wax on one side you'll see the other side is more of a paper and this is the waxy
finish that's what you want to print on on your inkjet printer when you feed it through so you'll
just have to see which way your printer feeds and make sure that that's the way that it prints out
okay i have it all printed off and i'm gonna let it sit for about 30 seconds before i apply it onto
my project you want the ink to just kind of dry just a little tiny bit not very much um and this
is this technique is a little bit tricky it might take a couple times to get it proper um you can
kind of see see how my ink kind of bubbled up a little bit there that might transfer off onto the
side but we can always fix it with a paint pen if it uh if it doesn't turn out perfect so i'm
just going to let it sit for about 30 seconds okay it's been 30 seconds and now i'm going to really
careful now don't touch these letters because if the ink is just sitting on top of this wax paper
if you touch it with your finger you're going to wipe that ink right off so you have to be really
really careful where you're placing it and once you place it down you can't move it so you have to
make sure that you have it exactly where you want it when you place it on your project and you don't
want it to wiggle around you want it right where you want it and i'm just going to press it down
with my hands and then after you've done that that's where you're gonna come in with your credit
card or a burnishing tool or something that's got like a flat surface that you can press that right
into your project and get that ink off of that wax paper
so i'm just going to take a few seconds and get this pressed down properly
and i have it all transferred it gives a real kind of rustic look it's not perfect but if you
like that look it's um it works really well and it can be a little bit finicky it took me a while to
get the technique down and get it to work really good because the ink smears so easy and sometimes
it can even run before you even put it down but it's a fun one to try it's not my favorite but
um you can put it in your uh to-do list to try it out and see if you like it i'm gonna finish
this one off i'm just gonna put some twine um jute to hang from it and uh we're all finished
it's all finished and i'm happy with the way that it's turned out i've seen lots of people
do this on lots of different surfaces you can do it on fabric on canvas on paper on wood um
and you just kind of have to experiment with it and see how it works for you
let me know down in the comments if you've ever used it and how it worked out for you
so thanks for um watching and we'll see you in the next video have a great day everyone you