hello youtube friends and welcome to my channel if you're new here my name is
deidra from our upcycled life and i do lots of thrifting upcycling repurposing and diy content
today's video is all about graphic transfer and this is a different method
that i'm going to show you i've used mod podge i've used poly acrylic sealer i've
used packing tape they all work fantastic but this was something that i did a little bit of
experimenting with and i wanted to see if it would work and guess what it worked fantastic
using ziploc baggies this is such a cool technique to do some transfers it's a little
bit different than all the other ones and i'm excited to show you how to do it lots of work
let's get started today i'm going to show you a transfer method using sandwich bags or freezer
bags when you're buying them make sure you have the type that don't have the label on them
i've done photo and graphic transfers with packing tape with mod podge with poly acrylic
there's so many different methods but i was for some reason this came into my mind the other day
how about we give this a try and see if we can do a graphic transfer with a plastic baggie did some
testing you will not believe the results you're going to need a towel to protect your table
and parchment paper the first transfer that we're going to do is with this graphic i designed this
it's in my etsy store if you want to grab it and try this project out for yourself when you've
finished watching this video and we're going to use the big sandwich bag or the freezer bag
you want to cut off the top zippy part we don't need that for the transfer and then we're going
to cut the bag open so it's one big sheet of plastic now we're going to cut the plastic so
it's just a little bit bigger than that sheet of paper now this technique will only work with a
laserjet printer it will not work with an inkjet printer so if you don't have a laserjet printer
you can always go to your local staples or stationery store and have them do copies for you
we've got our piece of parchment paper our printed laserjet printer and i'm laying the plastic right
on top of that with plastic hanging off both ends and then we're going to put the parchment
paper on top and then we're going to iron it i'm using i just have a craft iron in my craft room
that's all i use it for i have it on the highest setting and you don't want any
steam and you just want to take your time and just melt that plastic into that piece of paper
it'll take a few passes to get it completely melted you want to make sure that it's adhered
really well on the ends and in the corners i've let it cool down and we're going to peel away
the parchment paper and we have our graphics covered with the plastic baggie now i don't find
one layer of the plastic is enough so i always like to put on a second layer i've cut that baggie
in half so we're going to use that other half to put on another layer on top of the graphics
it's all cooled down we're going to pull away the parchment paper
and we have two layers of melted sandwich bags or freezer bags
on our graphics now i'm going to cut out each of the graphics now you want to make sure that
you have it adhered really well and double check it as i was trimming these i noticed that this
was not sealed very well so i'm going to go back and i'm going to iron it again and then double
check and make sure that it's all sealed properly because if it isn't we won't get a proper transfer
i've got them all cut out now they do have a tendency to roll up that's not a problem it's
not going to affect when we're all finished with it so the next thing we want to do is we want to
have a dish of warm water we're just going to set it in the water and just leave it for about
30 seconds it's been 30 seconds and the paper has really gotten soaked and we're just going
to just rub the paper off the back you want to go really slow you don't want to go too hard and the
paper will just roll up underneath your fingers and leave the graphic on that sandwich bag just
go really slow if you go too fast you're going to rub off that transfer so just take your time
and i have the paper rubbed off and you can see how it's transparent and i'm going to trim
around the edges to make it look nice and neat but when you put it on i've got a coffee stained map
you can see the map through it so many possibilities with this and i also like this
technique also as an alternative to the packing tape transfer because the packing tape transfer
is really glossy where this has a bit more of a matte finish to it and some of your projects
you might not want that glossy finish so this will replace the packing tape and it is so cool
and so magical i'm going to finish off the other ones from that sheet show you what they look like
i've got all the paper off now this does leave a bit of a haze
as you can see it's not going to be completely transparent but it's still really cool
flexible you can't rip it it's very durable perfect for junk journaling scrapbooking um
any type of diy project and what i like to do with it now is i'll use my glue stick just put some
glue on the back of it and you can glue it onto your project
i've got my map here and you can just lay it wherever you want and glue it down
next i'm going to show you how you can do it with a page out of an old book this book was falling
apart i've been using it for my crafting and i've just ripped out one of the sheets and we're going
to use this sandwich bag we're going to put down our parchment paper i've got my little piece from
the book i've cut the top off the sandwich bag we now have two layers here when you're using
the thicker the freezer bags they're thicker and i these ones are thinner so you can iron these two
together the thicker ones i like to do in two steps do the first layer and then the second layer
we're gonna cut this down a little bit so it's not so big and then we'll be ready to iron it together
we're gonna put the top layer of the parchment paper on top get our iron
that's on the highest setting with no steam and then melt that plastic right into that page from
that book we've got our little dish of water and our paper that's got the plastic on the top set
it in there and let it sit for about 30 seconds and we're ready to rub off the back now this page
had words on the front and the back so this is just going to rub off the words from the back and
we're going to be left with the words on the front this will also work with magazines it will work on
scrapbooking paper napkins you just have to just experiment and just try different things and
see what works and the book page is all finished and you can see how it's transparent
on top of that scrapbooking paper now where there was a few holes in it probably where
the plastic kind of melted away that's why it's so important to have two layers because
it's just not thick enough this one probably could have almost had three layers of plastic
but it still kind of gives it character and i love it i printed this photo off of the graphic
fairy on my laserjet printer and i'm going to show you how it's going to transfer with a sandwich bag
and i have this one all done you can see it's a little bit hazy it's hard to kind of rub off
all of it and when i put it down on some brown tissue paper how beautiful is that
i'm also going to show you how it will work on a piece of scrapbooking paper
i had some of the freezer bag left over and that's what i'm going to use for this
one so i'm going to put on this layer and then we'll put on the second layer
and i have the scrapbook paper all done also you can see how it's kind of transparent
the pattern of the paper and look when you put it on some glass
you could make a big sheet of this with a freezer bag wrap it on a glass bottle put a candle in
it it'd be just gorgeous so there's another technique to add into your crafting to do list
i had a lot of fun experimenting and testing with this technique and i hope you will too and if you
didn't happen to catch my packing tape transfer hacked video i'll put a link to that down below
in the description and if you like this kind of diy content i'd love for you to like subscribe
and follow along thanks for watching have a great day and we'll see you in the next video
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