Printable Acetate Fun & Insight...
Dimensional Butterflies
In today's post I am sharing a little product insight with you using some 'Printable Acetate' from the shop. This is sourced from a wonderful supplier of ours Peak Dale Products and it is great quality. Sized at A4 the pack has five sheets in it at a thickness of one hundred microns and is compatible with inkjet printers only. You create your design, place your chosen images, word art whatever you decide depending on the project in mind on your computer software first (I used Craft Artist 2 for this). You can use other software i.e. Photoshop, word, power-point depending on what you wish to achieve.
* Tips for using printable acetate *
The Acetate in this pack is layered with the clear front & a thin piece of paper at the back of each sheet.
The top clear front is the side/surface that you want to print onto.
Although can be hard to tell as it feels smooth to the touch, it has a minimally rougher surface/coating that the ink adheres to.
Your inkjet printer should have printer settings for transparency which are very important to use/set as it then puts the correct quantity of ink.
...You also need to consider how your paper feeds through...
If you use a front loader which feeds & turns the paper from the bottom tray on a roller:
Place the transparency, paper side up in the tray - then take away the thin paper prior to printing.
If you have a top loader or rear loader and it feeds through without turning place it paper side down & remove the paper.
Remove carefully not touching the wet ink as it could smudge when wet, always leave to dry for a good while before touching.
(You can also use the very fine paper afterwards for printing onto, which reminds me a little of rice paper or vellum.)
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For my project I used the following printer settings. Media type transparencies, Print quality normal, Size A4, colour mode vivid and I also printed at best quality. I printed out three butterfly images, two identical copies of each one. Let them sit and fully dry for ten minutes as recommended, then cut them out and also folded one of each design. To complete super glued them together and voila three dimensional butterflies made for a future craft project.
Image below shows half of a printed sheet & stages of making the butterflies.
I will create a follow on post in due course to show how you can incorporate them into a project and some other ideas/examples as well. There are so many possibilities I am looking forward to experimenting further. Hope you enjoyed this little glimpse into just one idea and I would like to thank and give credit to Lauren C Waterworth as the butterfly images are her artwork from one of her great digikits called 'Forest Friends' available via her Etsy shop.
Look out for more on the blog soon
Heather
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