Refers to any process used to transfer an image printed on paper to another medium. The simplest image transfer technique is to use water. Other transfer techniques use special gells or rubbing alcohol as an example.
Image transfer is often used in the making of polymer clay jewellery. It is also used for transferring images to metal.
The main advantage of using image transfer in jewellery is the amount of detail a printed image shows. It is also useful for creating interesting pieces by transferring images of photographs.
Image transfer
Pendants make great gifts and I like making them. In this tutorial I wanted to show two things. The first is how to do an image transfer onto metal. The second is to make a pendant with a rounded top so that you can string it easily.
Submitted by jacqueline.fouche on Fri, 12/25/2009 - 11:38
Liquid polymer clay image transfer pendant
Image transfers are fun, relatively easy and have a lot of scope for making different pretty things with it. There are various techniques you can use while making jewellery, in this tutorial we are going to make a pendant using the liquid polymer image transfer technique.
Submitted by jacqueline.fouche on Mon, 12/21/2009 - 19:53
Water image transfer on polymer clay
Techniques used:
- Water image transfer onto polymer clay
- Covering polymer clay with gold/silver foil
- Assembling a bracelet with elastic
Submitted by jacqueline.fouche on Sat, 12/19/2009 - 17:20
Technique - quick links
Polymer clay
