Iron-On Transfer Switch Plate -- Skulls (close up)
Skulls close up. Has a funky blurry/antique-y look I quite like.
The story is that I needed some kind of decorative house-warming gift for Goth friends of friends (the invitation said "Bring something morbid and arty to decorate with"). I though I'd get some plastic switch plates (cheap! 22c!) and decorate them with skulls or gothic-font writing, using a sharpie. I googled for images and fonts but quickly decided the sharpie would look like crap. I toyed with the idea of cutting stencils and painting, but I'm lazy, and that's a lot of work (I know from some glass-etching I did a while ago). Then I remembered some t-shirts Kathy & I had made using iron-on laser printer paper! It turned out we still had some, so I tried it. Tricky, but as you can see it worked. The plates didn't melt, but the images certainly aren't crisp. I decided that was a good thing.
After ironing the image on (it uses some kind of waxy substance) I sealed them with several coatings of spray-on clear polyurethane.
This is probably the best of the set.
Iron-On Transfer Switch Plate -- Skulls (close up)
Skulls close up. Has a funky blurry/antique-y look I quite like.
The story is that I needed some kind of decorative house-warming gift for Goth friends of friends (the invitation said "Bring something morbid and arty to decorate with"). I though I'd get some plastic switch plates (cheap! 22c!) and decorate them with skulls or gothic-font writing, using a sharpie. I googled for images and fonts but quickly decided the sharpie would look like crap. I toyed with the idea of cutting stencils and painting, but I'm lazy, and that's a lot of work (I know from some glass-etching I did a while ago). Then I remembered some t-shirts Kathy & I had made using iron-on laser printer paper! It turned out we still had some, so I tried it. Tricky, but as you can see it worked. The plates didn't melt, but the images certainly aren't crisp. I decided that was a good thing.
After ironing the image on (it uses some kind of waxy substance) I sealed them with several coatings of spray-on clear polyurethane.
This is probably the best of the set.