Foiling Laser Printed Images on Printed Backgrounds
  • Ursula Smith
  • April 13, 2023
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Hello Friends! Today I’m going to explain how to do a foil print onto a colorful background that you do not want also foiled. My first step is to create a background either directly in Photoshop or more often, I will paint or spray etc and then scan it into the computer and bring it…

Using Leftover Reactive Laser Print Foil for Backgrounds
  • Ursula Smith
  • April 8, 2023
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Hi Everyone! When you do a laser reactive foiling project, you laser print an image on to paper and then run it through a foiling machine. The foil sticks to the laser ink as it heats up while running through the foiling machine or laminator. You can find a post about foiling here. Also, I…

InkAid Printing on Yupo with Tim Holtz Distress Texture Mediums
  • Ursula Smith
  • April 8, 2023
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Hello Everyone! Today I am playing around with InkAid to try to see if I can print on paper that has been coated with Tim Holtz Distress Mediums by Ranger- the Crazing Collage Medium and Grit Paste. Lately I have been having trouble with my transfers from DASS (Digital Art Studio Seminar) and I am…

Technical glitches that drive me crazy
  • Ursula Smith
  • March 16, 2021
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I’m sure there are things in your life that drive you mad! Especially in the technology department 😉 So I’m going to start this post with a couple of things that I run into often and the way to solve them. This is Windows PC centric- I very rarely use Apple products. I’ll keep this…

Printing on Tim Holtz grit paste and crackle medium with inkAID
  • Ursula Smith
  • March 5, 2021
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I’ve been wanting to try this for so long but finally did it the other day when my transfers didn’t work (again). I had painted Tim Holtz grit paste into card stock and then used the DASS.com system (classic film and Super Sauce) to transfer. I can transfer successfully onto just a painted card, for…

GIMP Print on Epson 3880- margins shrink the image
  • Ursula Smith
  • May 7, 2020
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Hi everyone! Here is another post that is a reminder for me, and may be helpful to someone else out there 😉 I am trying to switch from Photoshop to GIMP because it is a LOT cheaper!! GIMP is pretty cool, quite configurable, and has a lot of the same features as Photoshop. It might…

Another Gelli Art Print with Photoshop
  • Ursula Smith
  • April 23, 2014
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Hello friends! I just designed a pile of stencils and stamps, and while I was waiting for the stencils to be made, I decided to cut a couple on my Black Cat Cougar cutting machine and test them out. I pulled out my trusty Gelli Arts Printing plate, and pulled some of the new Golden…

Gampi Paper Prints
  • Ursula Smith
  • September 26, 2013
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I have printed on regular white tissue paper before, but I just got some cool tissue paper, called Gampi paper. It is sheer, but has an aged feel to it, because it has a slight brown tint. I decided to try to print on it, and see how it looked layerd on some paper I…