X-Press It TripleTac Glue - Transfer Medium - Canvas

Today I am going to walk you through the process of using X-Press It’s TripleTac Glue as a transfer medium.
I could have also called this blog post “turning bad into good”!
I will show you how to work through a process, even when things don’t go quite how you expect and not giving up on a creative thought.
Using TripleTac as a transfer medium is one of my favourite techniques to play with.
It is super easy.
All you need is a canvas, X-Press It TripleTac Glue and something to transfer. It could be a pattern paper print, a print from a magazine or a photo.

Firstly the photo.
The photo is printed straight onto copy paper.
Did I mention this technique was easy?
It doesn’t matter if it’s inkjet or laser, although laser works better.
You will notice my photo is on the dark side.
I wasn’t sure how it was going to look once transferred so used the whole process as an experiment.

Once you’ve selected your canvas and printed off a photo to fit
cover the photo side of the paper with TripleTac.

Then place this side of the paper down on to your canvas.

Allow the glue to dry, you can use a heat gun or allow to dry naturally (which can take a few hours but best results are from waiting 24 hours).

Now the great thing about this technique is that you can use the transfer medium on all sorts of things.
Transfer on to wood, cardboard or even cardstock. Anything flat that won’t move when you follow the next part of the process.

Once the glue is dry, use a paint brush and apply some water

Then working in small sections start rubbing back the layer of paper to reveal the photo below.

 

By working in small sections you will soon see where the paper still needs rubbing back.

Be careful not to rub too hard or too far as you will start to remove the photo.
You will see this happened in small sections of my canvas. You will see that I made this “mistake” work to my advantage.
Once you have removed the paper membrane from the whole canvas give it a clean with a damp cloth (I like to use my hand that has been dampened with a little water).
Allow to dry. Then cover with another coat of TripleTac to seal the print, making sure the coat is flat or it will dry streaky (as it did on my canvas…more on that below)

And that’s the whole process.
Told you it was easy!
You can now add some paint around the edge of your canvas to finish it off.
For my canvas I took it a little step further.

I have painted some layers around my photo and then covered the “white space” with some text.
I used the glue streaks to my advantage by highlighting them to emphasis texture and dimension.

The result

Hopefully this inspires you to give this technique a go.
Why not grab your bottle of TripleTac and experiment.
Have a creative week
Sharmaine

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Mixed Media Card with Blending Cardstock

Hello! It’s Robyn joining you today with a project featuring X-Press It Blending Card. Blending Card is perfect for this project as it can happily take a bit wet media without dissolving into a mushy mess. My card features an image stamped onto white tissue paper which is then collaged over stamped/painted Blending Cardstock and further embellished with Copics and glitter sprays.

• Firstly cut some Blending Card to about A5 size. This is much larger than you need for the finished card but it will give you room to play with the background.

• Using a flourish/swirl stamp, stamp each of the corners using two shades of blue archival ink.
• Roughly paint the edges pale blue and the centre yellow.
• Stamp dragonfly onto the middle of an A5 sized piece of white tissue paper using Momento Tuxedo Black ink.

• Crinkle up the tissue paper, then adhere to Blending Card with X-Press It Triple Tac. Don’t smooth out all the wrinkles, they add lovely texture. Allow to dry well.
• Colour dragonfly with Copic Markers, blending so that the outside of the wings are darker. Coat wings and dragonfly body with Glossy Accents to give them dimension and protect in the next step.
• Spray with glitter spray – yellow in the centre and blue around the edges. Allow it to drip and spread, then dry well.
• Trim image down to suit card front and sponge edges with blue archival ink. Embellish the dragonfly with glitter glue.

• Layer image with blue cardstock and some patterned paper onto a 15cm square black card front using X-Press It Double Sided Tape. As the card may have buckled a little – use more double-sided tape than usual to ensure it lays flat on your card.
• Add a layered greeting, raised with X-Press It Foam Tape and you are done!

Supplies:

• X-Press It Blending Card
• X-Press It Triple Tac
• X-Press It Double Sided Tape
• X-Press It Foam Tape
• Momento Ink Tuxedo Black
• Copic Markers Y04, Y18, YR16
• White tissue paper
• Stampendous Dragonfly Vine, Fall Tendril, Happy Messages
• Ranker Archival ink Manganese Blue & Forget-Me-Not
• Ranger Glossy Accents
• Acrylic paint in yellow/blue
• Glitter glue, glitter sprays in yellow/blue

I hope you enjoyed learning how to create this lovely shimmery dragonfly card. I’d love to see your creations posted to our Facebook page if you make something similar.
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Define Joy – A Card Featuring Double Sided Adhesive Sheets

Hello! It’s Robyn Wood with you today sharing my first project on the X-Press It blog and I’m so happy to have been invited to join the team! I’m really looking forward to inspiring you. You can learn more about me in the welcome post on the Inspiration Lane blog.
My card today features X-Press It Double Sided Adhesive Sheets. These handy, sticky sheets are perfect to use when you need to stick tissue paper or lightweight paper as I have done for this project. The sheets come in a handy A4 size so are perfect for projects of all sizes.
The first step is to create a rosette which will be a feature on the card. Usually I would only create rosettes out of cardstock or heavy weight paper but this little trick with have you using our gorgeous Hazel & Ruby tissue paper as well!

· Trim a strip of X-Press It Double Sided Adhesive Sheet approx 4 cm wide from the long edge of the sheet. Expose one side of the adhesive and adhere to the long edge of Copic Blending Cardstock. Expose the second side of the adhesive and adhere a strip of Hazel & Ruby tissue paper cut to the same size. Trim the strip to 3 cm wide. The extra width in the beginning allows you some room to line up the pieces. The flimsy tissue paper is now reinforced by the cardstock making formation of the rosette easy.

· Score along the strip in 1 cm increments and then fold to make a concertina. Bring the ends together, making sure you match the folds and adhere with double sided high tack tape.

· Punch a 1 ¾” circle from the Double Sided Adhesive Sheets, remove one side of the adhesive and carefully set aside. Form the rosette by pushing the edges together into a circle shape and adhere using the punched circle of adhesive.
· Make a second strip about 4 cm wide using the Hazel & Ruby Pretty Floral paper and the technique described above. Use a border punch to give a decorative edge.

· Select a definition from the roll of Hazel & Ruby Define It Fat Roll Washi Tape and adhere to some coloured cardstock which tones with your base colours. Trim closely.

· Create a small tag approx. 4 cm x 7.5 cm using cardstock scraps and add a brad in place of a hole. Add some Double Side Adhesive Sheet to the back of a scrap of tissue paper that has been cut to fit the bottom of the tag. Tear one edge and adhere to tag. Overlay with a scrap of layer colour and trimmed definition.
· Using a 14 cm square card base, assemble card as shown. The tag is raised with X-Press It 6mm Foam Tape High Tack. A button tied with twine finishes the card.

Supplies:
X-Press It A4 Double Sided Tape Sheets
X-Press It 6mm Double Sided High Tack Tape
X-Press It 6mm Foam Tape High Tack
X-Press It Clear Gel Glue
Copic Blending Cardstock
Hazel & Ruby Pass the Tissue Teal Then/White Polka Dot
Hazel & Ruby Wrap It Up Pretty Floral Paper Roll
Hazel & Ruby Define It Fat Roll Washi Tape
Other – border punch, cardstock, brad, button & twine

I hope you have enjoyed learning how this project came together and one of the ways to use X-Press It A4 Double Sided Tape Sheets!

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Recycled Candle Holder

I just love being able to reuse household items to create something different.
I’m going to show you how I used X-Press It’s Triple Tac Glue to help create a candle holder.

The task called for a clean jar, tissue paper and some glue.

The jar would have been better if it was smaller but this one did the job.
You might see that i’ve used the gorgeous Hazel & Ruby tissue paper. It was perfect for this task.

It has a little more give than regular tissue paper and worked like a dream when I spread a layer of Triple Tac on the back.

I then covered the jar with the paper. I wasn’t too fussed by the creases, they just add to the dreamy glow later!

I could have left it at this step or I could have added some twine, which could have been glued in place if you wanted.

But I wanted a different glow so I gave the tissue paper a wash with some water colour before adding the twine.

The end result was a gorgeous glow.
Love that the Triple Tac dries clear and holds so well.
Can you imagine a row of these, in different sizes??
Or add some wire to create some hanging lanterns.
What great ideas have you got to revamp every day household items??

Sharmaine

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Angelic Christmas Layout

Sharmaine here with a layout featuring the Angelic Christmas range from Fabscraps 

Products used:
FabScraps “Angelic Christmas” papers
FabScraps “Angelic Christmas” chipboard
Lindy’s Stamp Gang Embossing Powder
X-Press It Double sided tape
X-Press It Foam tape
Fabscraps pearls

After choosing my background paper (“Special Times”)
I pulled out a snowflake chipboard piece

Using some double sided tape I adhered the chipboard to an acrylic block

And stamped the image on my paper,
then embossing it with some “Silver Moon Sapphire” embossing powder.

I then reused the chipboard

By covering them with some paint, red

and white,

And then added some sparkle with gold nail polish.

While this was drying I ripped a strip of paper from a piece of “”Blessed Times 1”

And using this ripped shape as my guide I ripped slightly larger pieces from “Bauble Delight” and “I Believe”

Once these were added to my page I stuck on the chipboard snowflake, to which I had spotted some snow (white nail polish).

I then had fun colouring another piece of chipboard “Merry Christmas”.

Adding more sparkle to my page.

The end result…

A happy little reminder of Christmas time.
Isn’t the print on the pattern paper just gorgeous!
Dreamy even?!
I hope this post might inspire you to have fun creating.
Take care
Sharmaine

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A Glitter Pumpkin With a Twist!

Hi all, its Sascha from X-Press HQ! When I'm not working behind the scenes, I get to play with my favourite X-Press It products. Since Halloween is fast approaching, I have decided to make my own version of a Glitter Pumpkin. There are heaps of different ideas floating around Pinterest and similar websites at the moment, so I thought it would be fun to create a new idea and use X-Press It Double Sided adhesive sheets!

First I gathered all of my materials:
- A Pumpkin, I used a Kent (You could use any sort, like a Butternut or carving pumpkin)
- One X-Press It double sided adhesive sheet
-Glitter
-Scissors

Cut out your desired shapes from your Double Sided Adhesive Sheet, to form the face. I went with the triangles for my nose and eyes, then a stitched look for the pumpkins mouth. Find the best side of your pumpkin, peel one side of the backing paper off your cut outs and position them on your pumpkin and press firmly.

Carefully peel the other sheet of backing paper off. If you are going to use different colours of glitter for different areas, only peel the backing off when you are ready. I decided to do two different colours for the eyes, so I peeled the backing off, trimmed it, then repositioned it.

Now for the fun part! Add your glitter! Pour the glitter onto the exposed sheet and gently rub it in with your finger tip. Dust off any excess glitter. Make sure you are working over a surface that you can use to collect your excess glitter.

 This is how each area will look after you have added glitter. Repeat the same process for each different colour.

After I had glittered the pumpkins face, I decided that looked like a cat, so I cut out a set of ears and whiskers out of X-Press It Blending Card and completed the same process (Double Sided Adhesive sheets and Glitter!)

This was the final result! Hello Sparkly Glitter Pumpkin Cat!

I hope you have enjoyed my tutorial. Don't be afraid to leave a comment, we love to hear and see what you have been up to.

Happy Halloween! - Sascha

PS... A little birdy has told me to tell you that it would be worth your while to make sure you visit this blog on Halloween... *wink wink*

PPS Did you know that X-Press It is on Pinterest and Instagram!? Follow us, it would make me SUPER happy!

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Shabbylicious Embossing

Hi X-Press It Fans.
Sharmaine here sharing a layout I made using several products from X-Press It.

Lindy’s Stamp Gang Embossing Powder
X-Press It Double sided tape
Fabscraps "Shabbylicious" papers
Fabscraps button and pearls
Chromacryl paints
Fabscraps filigree
Fabscraps "Shabbylicious" stickers

I started by creating my background paper, using cardstock and some watered down paint.

I then used some of the pattern paper to back my photo and to type up my journaling.

The next step was to emboss the metal filigree.

I covered the metal with paint

and coated each using both “Silver Moon Sapphire”

and “Adobe Fire” embossing powder.

I didn’t completely cover all the metal, I left little bits of paint showing through,

and heated the powder.

I then cut each filigree in half.

I then used the blue paint, diluted with water,

and coated a paper doily.

Which I also cut in half.

I then cut out a bird, from one of the pattern papers in the “Shabbylicious” range, and added it to my page.

I also added a “Shabbylicious” sticker

I added some Fabscraps pearls and buttons

to complete my page.

Love that supplies, like paint and embossing powder, give you the power to alter.
I hope this has inspired you to look at the embellishments you have and see if you can alter them with some paint or embossing powder.
Have a wonderful week.
Sharmaine

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