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ATC Water Transfer Technique: ATC Workshop Book Se

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Swap Coordinator:ChristineMM (contact)
Swap categories: Challenges  Art  Artist Trading Card (ATC) 
Number of people in swap:10
Location:Other
Type:None
Last day to signup/drop:October 15, 2016
Date items must be sent by:February 11, 2008
Number of swap partners:2
Description:

**UPDATED 2/10/08 If you have tried doing this technique several times and cannot get it to work I am proposing this solution in lieu of flaking on the swap.

If you can't get the water transfer technique to work use any other transfer technique of your choice to make the ATCs for this swap. Then write a note to your partner explaining what happened that you could not get it to work.

This is the only solution I can come up with that will allow for us to have quality work on this swap and to avoid a forced flaking for those who can't get this to work.

I have heard from several participants of the problems plus I myself am having problems getting this to work--so I know they are telling the truth.

If you receive a swap that follows this alternate solution please consider that the person did 'follow swap rules'.

Thank you everyone.

3 ATCs to 2 Members, 6 ATCs total. This is an international swap. Minimum rating 4.8. No one with more than one “1� rating in their history. No newbie’s (sorry).

About this swap

This is the 11th ATC swap in this series and this time we will try the technique “Transfers� technique featured on page 44-47 and we will try the first technique which is “water onto paper� (see page 45 at the top).

The necessary ingredients for this swap are: stiff background paper of your choice, cardstock or stronger, color ink-jet images on lightweight photo paper, water, brush, brayer. You may use other things to embellish the ATC with, any number of art materials, papers, or embellishments. However note that in the examples, the egg ATC on page 44 just has the transfer and is lovely just that way. Other ATCs featured in the book on these pages are more complex with mixed mediums.

The actual theme of your ATCs is up to you as this swap is based on a basic technique for the background paper only.

General Info

We are continuing in the series of ATC swaps based on the techniques taught in Bernie Berlin’s book “Artist Trading Cards Workshop: Create, Collect, Swap� published in December 2006 by North Light Publishers.

If you didn’t do other swaps in this series, that is okay, join in on the swaps that interest you. If you already own this book perhaps you are itching to try some new techniques. Maybe you would like to see how others interpret this technique, so let’s swap ATCs with each other. And if you don’t yet own this book and you want to learn some new and interesting techniques then perhaps you’d consider buying the book and joining our swap!

Before you commit to this swap please already own the book or have access to a copy from your library. Make sure you have the necessary tools and ingredients on hand before the swap closes. It would not be fair to sign up then not make the ATCs and say “I don’t own the book or the right materials�.

Due to the nature of this book being copyrighted and the fact that the whole book is based on teaching the reader art techniques I do not feel comfortable posting the full directions of this technique online as it could very well be against the law (a copyright violation).

The book is fantastic. If you don’t yet own it, you can purchase this book online through big bookseller sites or see if your local craft store or rubber stamp store is selling it. The ISBN-10 is 1581808488 and the ISBN-13 is 139781581808483. The book was published in the United State of America. I have no idea what the availability of this book is to foreign countries, but the swap is open to International members so long as you have the book and the materials and want to participate. (Someone told me that anyone can buy online from book vendors but will just pay more in shipping fees.)

Please allow ample time to make these ATCs. I have found through my own experience that when learning a new technique and when using new materials mistakes abound and errors are bound to happen in the experimentation process. So please give yourself enough time to make these ATCs so you can send out high quality work as well as send the ATCs out by the deadline.

The date to send the swap by is a rule of this swap. Please follow the rules or you may receive a rating of “3� for not following the rules (instead of “5� rating).

You are free to join this swap and not join future swaps in this series. You are free to not join this one but to join other swaps in this series. You don’t have to sign up for all of them, just the ones you want to do and the ones that you have time to do!

Now that the rules are out of the way I wish you luck and fun while trying this technique. If you want to read more about this book to see what it is like, I have published a book review of it on my blog which you can read here.

http://christinemmatcs.blogspot.com/2007/05/my-book-review-artist-trading-card.html

Thanks! Have fun!

Discussion

shopandbid 01/ 8/2008 #

WOOPIEEEEE! I purchased this book last month either at Joann's or Michaels just because I feel in love with the tecniques. I've seen your swaps before based on tecniqes in this book and was not able to join. I'm so excited my hubby thinks I'm nuts. WOOPIEEE!

magicjessnrach 01/ 8/2008 #

Man, wish that book was available here in Australia! I know, I know,I could get it on amazon IF I had a credit card ;)

Timeless63 01/ 8/2008 #

how many more of these will you host? i dont have the book but it sounds fun. if this is going to go on or be repeated i may purchase the book next month.

ChristineMM 01/11/2008 #

Hi everyone, I have already hosted 10 of them. I was trying to host 2 per month up until the Christmas holiday season when I took a break. I have been very pleased with these swaps because due to the high rating minimum's we have had no flakers. Also the quality has been high on these. I give plenty of lead time to do the work since we're all learning and trying these techniques often for the first time---so it takes longer to make the ATCs and to make some that are 'swap worthy' if you know what I mean.

I am just now getting back into swapping after the New Year holiday, me being away to visit a relative and then dealing with winter sickness. I hope to list a 2nd swap in the next week or so. After that I plan to hopefully run 2 swaps per month again based on techniques in this series.

If you check my profile you will see a comment in the right sidebar that lists the ones we finished. I want to do more new ones before I repeat the other techniques, if I even do that.

I have found the book very much worth the money. I've learned some new techniques. And the examples of the finished cards have been inspirational and given me even more ideas.

Have fun everyone!!

Moominbrooke 01/24/2008 #

I have been in several of these and really enjoyed actually working from the book and the results and inspiration from the new techniques. Great series.

augustmoon849 01/25/2008 #

This book is available through Amazon's used book section for under $6. Looking forward to trying the techniques - they looks useful for many applications. THX

CraftyDez 01/28/2008 #

Man, I almost missed this one. Hey Christine, welcome back. I am so glad you've started these up again. I just love that book.

boatingbelle 01/29/2008 #

I've just had a try at this technique and found I got the best results when the photo paper was dry, leave to stand a few minutes after taking it off the printer, and the watercolour paper was very wet. I also used absorbent craft paper (a bit like thin sugar paper) which worked well but took longer to dry when printed. Margot.

ChristineMM 01/30/2008 #

Thanks for the tips Margot. I unexpectedly went out of town x8 days so now I am going to be pushing a deadline I guess. When working with a new technique I like to give myself more room. Oh well!!

I've done other transfers but not water.

ChristineMM 02/ 1/2008 #

Partners have been assigned. Have fun everyone.

Please let me know if your partner flakes on you.

This swap had a 4.8 minimum rating and everyone had that so no one was banned.

Have a great day everyone!

augustmoon849 02/ 1/2008 #

I've had some issues with this technique and wonder if anyone can offer suggestions re. amount of wetness (spray vs. soak) and what paper works the best? Mine keep sticking together and oftern are impossible to pull away. I've used drawing paper, cotton printer's paper, and watercolor paper -- each progressively muckier. (I don't have the book at my finger tips, so I may be missing a major detail.)

boatingbelle 02/ 6/2008 #

Laurie55 and Redwing480, your cards are in the post from UK.

ChristineMM 02/ 7/2008 #

Mine are not working either. Yikes. This is very frustrating. Ideas, anyone?

I'm soaking the watercolor paper heavily, using a brayer and even tried using the back of a spoon.

laury55 02/ 9/2008 #

I also tried as explained in BB book with lightweight photo paper but didn't work, finally decided to print with a ink-jet printer on greaseproof paper and the results are not too bad (don't apply too much water on the watercolor paper)

ChristineMM 02/10/2008 #

I am going to edit this swap to say if a person has tried several times to use the water technique and it is failing that they can substitute any other transfer technique and write a note to the person they are sending to, explaining how the water transfer did not work after several attempts.

I don't want those who are not faring well with this technique to be forced to flake on their partners.

I have tried this over and over with all different ways and cannot get this to work. This is so frustrating.

I will send an email to everyone in a few minutes.

ChristineMM 02/12/2008 #

I just received this by email from Desiree...

Hi Christine, transfers are tricky....grrrrr. I've been playing with them for sometime on polymer clay and it's pretty hit or miss. I don't know if this will help or not, but can your forward this on to the group. These are just suggestions. I can sit there and transfer one image and then next one gives me nightmares.

  1. Don't use a very absorbent watercolor paper. I used the Strathmore brand: http://www.michaels.com/art/online/displayProductPage?productNum=fa0255 When I went to the art store and got a pretty expensive sheet of cold press 300lb paper and tried the transfers, the watercolor paper just stuck to the photo.

  2. Don't use a freshly printed image. I let my photo dry for at least 2 hours before using.

  3. Saturate the paper. But be careful not to let the photo slide when you are placing it on the paper. You may see color bleeding from under the photo, but this is a good thing that means the ink is actually transferring. Also when you begin to remove the photo, if you notice that it hasn't transfered as much as you like, use a paintbrush to add more water.

  4. Also try a gift or credit card to burning instead of the roller. Sometimes this helps.

Again, this is not guaranteed, but between some cursing and throwing hands up in frustration, I managed to get some photos transfered.

Note: Christine, I don't know how this will be looked at since the technique says to use watercolor paper, but transferring to manila folders is a heck of a lot easier. I found a site on-line when I was having problems and almost every time my manila folder transfers worked. If you are agreeable to altering the instructions slightly, then maybe folks can use that instead.

CraftyDez 02/12/2008 #

I just remembered one other thing. Paper formulations may have changed since this book was written.

There was a big discussion about this on Polymer Clay Central's forums. A lot of the folks used a specific brand of inkjet paper to do the transfers. The vendor changed their formulation and all of a sudden everyone was struggling to do transfers. They had to pretty much tweak their techniques to work with the new papers.

I wonder is that is what has happened with this technique. Maybe the inkjet photo papers have changed. I have been using Kodak and HP premium photo paper. For me the Kodak seems to release the ink better than the HP, but that maybe because the Kodak paper is older. I bought lots of packages of it a couple of years ago when an office supply store went out of business.

redwing480 02/12/2008 #

I used Strathmore 140lb. cold press watercolor paper and Southworth(Eaton) glossy photo inkjet paper.

I wet the paper by holding it under a running faucet for about 10 seconds each side. I then put the print and went over it with the brayer about 5-6 times and then seperated . I used my prints within 15-20 minutes of printing them.

Photos were harder to work with and the book only said images so I tried some other things. The easiest to work with were prints of graphic images with clear lines or simple images with bold lines.

This was a challenging technique that I ended up liking and plan to explore further.

CraftyDez 02/13/2008 #

LOL! Ok, I'm glad I'm not the only one still stuck on conquering this technique.

I actually stopped by Walmart last night and picked up two other brands of watercolor pads. One was Mead's Watercolor Pad. It says heavyweight, but I can tell ya, there ain't nothing heavy about this paper. OMG....the transfer I just did is clear as a bell. {Smack self on forehead} why didn't I try this one before.

Anyone interested in another on of the swaps a couple of months from now after we've had some more trial and error time.

redwing480 02/14/2008 #

I'd be willing to give it another go round.

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