The tar paper piece I have been struggling with is giving me fits. I cannot get this new printer to accept fabric except maybe once every fourth try, so instead I printed all the circles on regular photo paper.
Then I coated each with two coats of matte gel medium because I don't want it to look plasticky, dried it well, then adheared the front of the photos to linen with gloss gel medium (because for some reason that seems to stick better SOME TIMES. I've let all 15 circles dry well, then I soaked them and removed the photo paper backing. I used my thumb:
Now I am using my thumb with a bandaid on it to cover the huge blister.
Then I tried using a plastic pot scrubby and it really went through the paper quickly. I set the transfers aside and let them dry again but when they dried I noticed a haze and some residue paper still on the surface so back in the hot sink they went and I set the sponge to roll off the excess paper. Icky process.
Set them on the floor to dry again but as they dried they became hazy- looks like I have scrubbed too hard because they are granite-y looking now and all the deep black is pretty much gone.
I have choices-
1. I can REPRINT all of them on some new way to get the printer to accept the fabric (I used a whole set of inks at $118 for the first set).
2. I can use them as-is and see where it takes me.
3. And the ever popular scrap-the-whole-plan. I am gonna sleep on it and hope a solution dreams its way into my head.
On the horticultural front, I rejoined Costco and bought myself an orchid this week.
And the landscape company came by and took out my lemon tree which was posing as dead after 15 years of robust health. They came back a few days later and put this in:
It's not even up to my shoulder AND it's crop consists of ONE (count it) lemon. I will try not to use it all in one place. The last tree, the one with the football-sized lemons that supplied everyone I know with my Limoncello, was over the roof. I've been gypped, and I will probably be in the nursing home before I get enough lemons for Limoncello again.
2. I can use them as-is and see where it takes me.
3. And the ever popular scrap-the-whole-plan. I am gonna sleep on it and hope a solution dreams its way into my head.
On the horticultural front, I rejoined Costco and bought myself an orchid this week.
And the landscape company came by and took out my lemon tree which was posing as dead after 15 years of robust health. They came back a few days later and put this in:
It's not even up to my shoulder AND it's crop consists of ONE (count it) lemon. I will try not to use it all in one place. The last tree, the one with the football-sized lemons that supplied everyone I know with my Limoncello, was over the roof. I've been gypped, and I will probably be in the nursing home before I get enough lemons for Limoncello again.
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