How to Make Transfers for Scrapbooking

Create the perfect transfers for your scrapbook page theme.

A transfer in scrapbooking is an image that is made to be adhered to the page or other paper element in the scrapbook. Dress up your scrapbook pages with custom-made transfers. You can use any image, including your own photos, which gives you a greater variety than you will find in any store. The transfers are a cinch to make and use items commonly found in most homes. The transfer must be photo-safe to avoid damaging your precious photos that are included in the album.

Things You'll Need

• Freezer paper
• 1 sheet printer paper
• Paper protectant spray
• Printer
• Smudge prevention spray

Instructions

1. Cut a piece of freezer paper to be slightly smaller than the sheet of printer paper.

2. Use a glue stick to adhere the freezer paper, shiny side up, to the printer paper. Use enough glue to hold the freezer paper firmly in place but not so much that it comes out from under the edges. This will cause the glue to get inside of your printer and it might interfere with normal printer operation.

3. Spray the freezer paper with the paper protectant spray and allow it to dry. Once dry, the paper will no longer be shiny.

4. Place the paper into your printer so that it will print on the freezer paper side.

5. Print the image. Use any program on your computer, including Microsoft Word or Paint, to select the image. As long as the program has a “Print” feature, you will be able to use it. You can even print images directly from the Internet.

6. Spray the image on the paper with the smudge prevention spray. This will prevent the ink from running or moving on the paper as it dries and during transfer.

7. Let the ink dry thoroughly. This can take as long as 24 hours depending on the print quality setting of your printer.

Tips & Warnings

• Do a test print to make sure you have the correct side facing up. On some printers you will need to install the freezer paper side up and on others it will need to be down,.

References

• "Memory Makers" Magazine: Preserve It
• Scrap Jazz; Easy Photo Transfers; Allyson Bright; June 2005

Resources

• Rubber Stamping Fun: Fantastic Rub-On Transfers From Stuff Around The House!
• Ruby Glen: Image Transfer For Card Making And Scrapbooking Made Easy
• YouTube; Image Transfer Technique using Transparency Film; August 2009