Photo Transfer Project

This is another project that is pretty easy to do, it does require a little more time to complete just because you need to let things set for a while and wait for things to dry.

What you will need
An image of your own or one found on the internet like mine. It will need to be printed on standard printer paper.
1-Bottle of Gel Medium
1-Bottle of Mod Podge
1-Piece of wood cut to the size of your image
1-Foam Brushes

1. The first thing you want to do is brush a few layers of the gel medium onto your board. You need to be fairly quick with this part and you want to ensure the the gel medium is applied evenly across the board.

2. After you've applied the gel medium you will want to center your image on the board. I should mention that this is another project where you need to reverse the image before printing it out and doing this step.

3. Once you have your image centered on the board, starting in the middle, firmly press down on the image working your ways towards the edges. Then you will want to let this set overnight (I would recommend leaving it for at least 12 hours).

4. If you look online at projects similar to this one there are a few different methods for doing this step, but I found it easier to just run the board under very hot water to peel the paper off. You will need to rub some of the paper off with your fingers in this step as well but you want to be careful when doing this because if you rub to hard it will smear some of your image off. I had that problem on my first attempt which is why this picture doesn't fit my board. After I messed up the first one I had to flip it over and use a different image. If you have the same problem you can just re-cut the board to fit your new image or just paint a border around the image.

5. After you get the paper washed off let it dry, then apply an even layer of mod podge, and then leave that to dry. Once its dried your finished.


Side Notes
I've noticed that the images seem faded compared to the original image, but my sister did this project and accidentally used a thicker paper to print her image off and the transferred image was just as crisp as the original one. I'm not sure if that is actually the reason for the image being crisp but feel free to experiment with it. The only problem she had with that paper was that it was a lot harder to get it off the wood.

May the force be with you.
Dylan