Welcome to WeScrap's Trick or Treat Blog Hop!
To celebrate Halloween, we would like to share some of our favorite scrapbook tricks and treats with you today! So join us on our blog hop where you'll be inspired by some cool projects, learn some new tricks, and have a chance to win some scrappy treats!
As you hop along, each of our Inspiration Team members will have 1 or 2 words for you to collect. Leave a comment on all of the blogs and collect all the words to create a sentence.
Hop on back to the WeScrap Forum and add a post to this thread. Be sure to send Victoria a private message with your sentence for your chance to win our GRAND PRIZE!
Here's our Favorite Things Blog Hop rotation:
Sue Sykes <--- You are HERE!!
First, cover the surface area of your tag with gel medium, using the foam brush. Make sure to cover a large enough area to fit your image.
Place your image, face down, on the gel medium. Make sure that it doesn't slide around by holding it in the middle and using your bone folder to smooth out the paper from the center to the outer edge, in a clockwise motion. (I am using one hand, because I had to take the photo!). Burnish the back of the image for several minutes.
Slowly, lift one corner of your image. It should be transferred to your manila tag - if the image is not transferred, continue to burnish the back of the image for a few more minutes.
Remove the paper. Don't worry if there are some spots that did not transfer - I think it adds to the vintage feel!
If there is still some of the paper remaining on your transfer, wet the image with a foam brush and water and rub to remove. Take care not to lift the transfer.
Let dry - or use your heat gun to speed up the process - and voilà!
Sorry the photo is blurry - I didn't realize it until after I completed my project. Speaking of which, here is my quick tag I created using the transfer:
Supplies used: DCWV cardstock; Golden gel medium; Tim Holtz Distress Ink; Martha Stewart Crafts border punch; The Twinery twine; kraft twine from my stash. Printed images were left over from a Donna Downey class.
Please leave a comment here with your favourite Hallowe'en costume ever to be entered into a random draw for a little TREAT from me!
My secret word for you today is TRICKS.
To be entered to win the grand prize, you must complete the entire blog hop by Sunday October 30th at 11:59 EST.
To be entered to win the grand prize, you must complete the entire blog hop by Sunday October 30th at 11:59 EST.
Winners will be announced on the forum on Halloween Day – October 31st!
Good luck and happy hopping - your next stop is Melissa's blog!
That transfer technique is cool! and your tag is beautiful! tfs!
ReplyDeleteThat is a beautiful technique...and something I will be trying! My favourite Halloween Costume was when I was eight/nine and my Ma made me into a fantastic clown!
ReplyDeleteOh wow, I'm gonna try this. Gotta find that gel though! My favorite costume was a Californian Raisen guy. Remember when the had those toys at McDonalds? Thanks for inspiring!!
ReplyDeleteTanya
phenis2031 at yahoo dot com
www.scrappylandusa.blogspot.com
This is super amazing Sue! You are uber talented! xo
ReplyDeleteTFS this cool technique Sue.
ReplyDeleteMy favourite (in fact only) costume is this year's - I'm going to my first Halloween party as a Devil Mistress. :)
Hugs xx
super tut! Love it!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite halloween costume is anything my boys are dressed as!
wonderful tag - never sen this before - will have to try it out.
ReplyDeleteMy fav costume is a cow costume, complete with udders
OH MY WORD! as a distressing vintage lover, i cannot even believe that I haven't learned of this yet!! what an amazing tutorial! thank you so so much
ReplyDeleteCool technique, Sue!!! I'm gonna have to try this!! Let's see...my favorite costume...can't really think of one...my husband's favorite one was when I dressed up a school girl last year...
ReplyDeleteLea
Love your tag, what a great idea. I guess my favourite costume was last year's. I dressed up as a clown (with the big floppy shoes & everything) & my grandkids just loved it.
ReplyDeleteThis is a fabulous idea! Love it! My favorite costume was an Energizer Bunny. I was that a few years ago.
ReplyDeleteWhat an awesome idea that I will be trying out.
ReplyDeleteMy favourite costume was my Granny's fur coat. I was an old-fashioned football fan. I was toasty warm and someone offered me money for my coat.
Awesome technique!! Love this!! Thanks for sharing!!!
ReplyDeletegreat tip!! I will have to try!!
ReplyDeleteI think my most favorite costume recently was when i was a flapper, when my department was the roaring 20s in our through the decades Halloween Extravaganza for our Floor.
My favorite costume was worn when I was pregnant and working at McDonald's - I made an M&M costume and went as a peanut M&M!
ReplyDeleteoops! forgot to say that my favorite costume was the clown costume that my mom made for me when I was little. I wore it for many years!
ReplyDeleteGreat technique. I will have to find some of that get to give this a try. Love your tag.
ReplyDeleteI don't really have a favorite costume, although I did make a Raggedy Andy costume for my grandson when he was 2 and he won most orginial in it.
Great tutorial! It looks like fun and I will have to give it a try. My favorite costume was a pumpkin when I was 8 months pregnant. The sales clerk said, "you know you will have to stuff that costume." At that point, no stuffing was needed.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the fun tip on using gel mediums to transfer images - I still haven't done much of that. I don't have a favorite costume as I haven't done much trick or treating for many years.....and living in a Sr community I miss seeing all the kids in their costumes.
ReplyDeleteThis is such a cool tip!!! It has a great effect!
ReplyDeleteLove the owl tag!!! What a fabulous technique!!! I'm not sure I have a favourite Halloween costume -- perhaps the clown costume my Mom made me when I was little.
ReplyDeleteI love the effect on the tag! I will have to give this one a try!
ReplyDeleteShirley B (Chilly)
What a cook technique.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great tutorial Sue!! I was way too intimidated to try something like this, but you have made it look easy!! ;)
ReplyDeleteBeautiful!
ReplyDeletetks for sharing
xx
Leila
leilacassimira@gmail.com
I am always wishing I could transfer an image..I have to try this! Thank you so much!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite costume was the year I spraypainted my black dog with yellow stripes to make him into a bumblebee. He refused to wear the headband with the antennae.....
ReplyDeleteGreat tutorial Sue - my favourite costume was dressing up as teletubbies with my husband and my first two children!! (I was Lala!)
ReplyDeleteLove the tutorial Sue. My favourite costume was the year that I dressed up as my husband. He is a chief engineer on a lake freighter (coveralls, work boots, hard hat, hearing protection moustache and side burns)
ReplyDeleteWow, so cool!! I have never seen this! Love the result! Your tag is awesome!! I have to say I really love my 4 year old sons costume this year, a sack of potatoes! The main reason I love it is because he thought of it, and got the idea from a Richard Scarry book, drew a picture of what he wanted and then grandma made it!
ReplyDeleteLove your tag! I will have to try this. My favorite costume was my nephew's costume for the last two years---he wanted to be my cat Peachie! He just loves Peachie, so he asked Grandma to make him a cat costume--and she did!
ReplyDeletelove the tag - when i try this technique it never works for me... off to try again!
ReplyDeleteThis is so awesome Sue!! I love how your tag turned out!
ReplyDeleteThat is awesome...
ReplyDeletelove this idea... wow... i am impressed once again with your art
ReplyDeleteLove the vintage look of the tag with the twine~
ReplyDeletevick6740@yahoo.com
that's a cool trick.
ReplyDeletemy favorite halloween costuem is the year I dress my family as fred flinstone, wilma, bam bam and dino! it was so awesome
love that technique! My favorite Halloween costume as a kid was my Laura Ingalls Wilder plastic mask & vinyl dress (boxed 80s costume)...I wore a vintagey dress underneath to capture the real pioneer spirit :)
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to try this with photos!! SO cool!
ReplyDeleteFun fun fun! Great hop so far! -missmammamurphy31@yahoo.com
ReplyDeleteHOW crazy neat is this tag? !! love it!
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