transfer pencils
Susan Lomuto | Feb 08, 2007 | Comments 2
floresita has a tutorial on things i’ve made for using a transfer pencil on fabric. has anyone tried this for image transfers on polymer clay?
while you are on her site, be sure to take a look at floresita’s free, vintage embroidery pattern clip art. might find a few illustrations worthy of a polymer clay image transfer. this one is fun, yes?
I have tried this. It depends on the pencil used. I have also tried it with the embroidery transfer papers as well. I have tried it with the vintage embroidery transfers—just ironing them on the cured clay. All of the vintage embroidery transfers eventually bleed. I tested with white, translucent and white pearl clays. In a matter of months the transfers had traveled from the top to the middle of the sheet of clay even though the clay was cured. Within a year, the designs were on the bottom of the sheet. I still have all of the samples that go back to 1997. Eventually the designs turn into a blur and unrecognizable image. I think that the polymer clay would have to be sealed to prevent the transfer from going through. If you are interested in details, I will be glad to hunt them up and take some photos. It has been a long time since I tried the transfer pencils and the embroider transfer papers, but unless they have changed them I doubt that they would work well.
use xerox printed images or newsprint and rub it on the clay and then bake. it works.