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Print Transfer Technique

A quick and easy way to transfer some print material to your art journaling pages, that I came across mostly by
accident and have since used on many an art journaling page!

You will need:

Art journaling page

Mod Podge
old book pages or sheet music
bone folder or popsicle stick (or you can use the back of your nail if you like)

I generally use this method when I’ve already

layered on several paints, inks, stamps and
splatters, so the transfer print sits on top of the
page.

1.) Tear your piece of printed paper to

about the size you would like the print to
appear on your page. No need to be
accurate - just roughly the size.

2.) Smear some Mod Podge on your

page where you’d like the print. Again, no
need to be accurate. Just more or less
will do. I generally use my finger, but you can use a brush if you prefer. Use a generous amount, but
not too much.

3.) Now you have to work relatively fast, depending on how much Mod Podge you used! Place the piece of print on
top of the mod podge and burnish it either with the bone folder or the back of your thumb nail.

You just need to go over it a few times.

4.) Take the end of the piece of paper, and slowly start pulling. You will see that the print has transferred to the page.
If it’s not transferring much yet, just press it back down and give it a bit more burnishing.
Keep on pulling as much or as little as you like. Very old paper tends to be more porous, so it tends to rip easier and
leave more paper behind, but that’s ok. You just
go back and and start pulling from another spot.
You can leave as much or as little paper on as
you like.

I quite like it when some of the paper remains,

especially since the print that transfers onto the
page is of course mirror imaged, but the print
you don’t pull off isn’t, so it makes for interesting
texture and visual interest!

Different kind of print/paper react differently to

this method, so have fun experimenting!

Here I have a newer print and it transfers the

print with barely losing any paper - also very
nice!

5.) Once you pulled everything off that you

wanted to, let the mod podge dry completely.

And that’s it! Pretty simple, but very effective!

Of course you can do this with newspaper

images too, just remember that whatever you
are transferring will be mirror- imaged.

Oh, and one more little tip. Should you at any

point after drying decide that you didn’t want to
leave as much paper on the page, just wet your
finger, or give the spot a quick spritz with some
water (just a mist, not too much) and gently rub
with your finger. The paper will continue to come
off, leaving more of the print behind!