Photo Image Transfer Canvas Mod Podge Craft

Following on from my post, Photo Canvas Mod Podge Craft, I looked at other Pinterest pins to see about getting a better, more realistic photo canvas effect, instead of just using proper photographs.

I learnt about image transfer from copies. There are lots of pins and blogs on photo image transfer canvas Mod Podge crafts.

This is the method I used to transfer the photograph.

• I chose the picture I wanted to use
• opened it with Photoshop
• Resized image to 7cm x 7cm. Image > Image Size > change width & height to 7cm. I need to untick constrain proportions.
• I then flipped the photograph so it was a mirror image. In Photoshop, Image > Rotate Canvas > Flip Canvas Horizontal.
• On some pictures I increased colour / saturation too.
• I printed the photograph using my home inkjet print.
• I cut the photograph out.

•  Next I applied a layer of Mod Podge to the canvas, I think this can be done either way round on to canvas or to photograph.

• I then laid the image of the canvas, ink side down.

There are two options now.

1. Leave to set for 5 minutes or so and carefully peel off the paper whilst Mod Podge wet.
2. Leave to dry overnight.

• I preferred the result from leaving over night, ink seems to soak in more.

 

•  Next, get a small dish / tub of water and wet the canvas. The image will start to show through the back of the photograph again.
• Gently, rub the paper off. Wear gloves if possible, otherwise expect an ink stained finger!

 

• Keep going, it takes patience at this point, but carefully! This one I was a bit heavy handed on!

• I broke all the rules of the Pinterest pins next, I rinsed the canvas under a slowly running tap. Most posts stay that coating in another couple of layers of Mod Podge will deal with the bits of paper left. But hey, I'm a craft rebel!
• I left to dry for several hours, before coating with a couple of layers of Mod Podge.

My next couple of attempts were a lot better, but it's still a bit hit and miss, due to my heavy-handedness. 
Some have been good enough to give as presents, some went straight in the bin! ha!

I bought my canvases from Poundland.

Photo Canvas Mod Podge Craft

I have a large photo canvas of Kiki from her trip to Olympics, and love the look of it. 

I really like canvas prints, but they are so expensive. 

I found a few pins on Pinterest about using Mod Podge to transfer images.

The first one I tried was using actual photographs. I bought some mini canvases from Pound Shop, 4 in a pack 7cm x 7cm.

I trimmed some pictures to size and put a layer of Mod Podge on each canvas, I then laid the photograph, image size up, once it had dried I added some extra layers of Mod Podge to seal.

*note* I had no Matt Mod Podge so I used Sparkle Mod Podge. Same thing but glittery. Be warned, if you haven't used it before, it is very glittery.

The angle and light on the photograph affect the amount of sparkle. I would recommend Matt Mod Podge!

Blogging Every Day in August: Your favourite photo's (Day 14)

Sarah at Yummy Mummy In Training has set herself a challenge of blogging every day in August and has listed her prompts. As my blogging is a bit hit and miss at the moment, I will be using her prompts to generate some ideas too.

Today's prompt is: Your Favourite Photo

As always, I can't make a decision, so I have several.

 This one because it's the first picture of my daughter. I look like crap but I am so filled with love.

 This is the only photograph of us as a family.

This is the photograph of Kiki in her outfit when we went to London 2012 Olympics, although she was only weeks old and slept through most of it!

My favourite wedding photo.

Me and my stepdad.

Me having fun in a desert in Egypt!

Leeds - Liverpool Canal.
 

 Haverfordwest Waterfront.

 Roundhay Park.

Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

(I believe I did mention I have a thing for pictures of trees....)

Blogging Every Day in August: A photo of us (Day 2)

Sarah at Yummy Mummy In Training has set herself a challenge of blogging every day in August and has listed her prompts. As my blogging is a bit hit and miss at the moment, I will be using her prompts to generate some ideas too.

Today's prompt is: A photo of us.

Whilst reading some blogs on Sunday, I saw a post someone had made of professional family photographs, it's something I've been thinking about for a while, so hopefully will get booked soon.

I enjoy taking photo's. I take photo's of Little Lady often, as you can probably tell from the blog! 

We usually manage to get some pictures of her with Daddy, even if he does hate photographs!

I have even started to ask him to take pictures of me and Kiki too. As I realised during her 1st year I think we have four pictures of us.

But as I'm usually the one behind the camera, we only have one picture of mummy, daddy, and Little Lady!

That is shocking and we must rectify that!

Who said toys have to be educational?

Who said toys have to be educational?

Introducing baby

Just in case you didn't know, I have had a baby!

This is my beautiful baby's first picture.

 

This was about an hour after she was born, (when my birthing partner actually arrived! Thanks Fran *laughs*)

Nostell Priory

 

Real Memories?

I often think about my childhood, memories are all I have left.

I remember certain moments in graphic detail, the sights, sounds, smells and emotions.
There are some details I have blocked, painful memories, repressed them for my sanity.
I often wonder about my memory, it is reliable, can I trust it?

Are the images I recall vividly real? Did I remember it correctly or has it been coloured by my imagination?

I can recall games with my brother, us youthful and lively, laughter piercing the bright sunshine, green grass glistening with morning dew. I am about three years old, my brother seven. I have a brilliant blue bucket trailing behind. It is shaped like a castle, but there is no sand in the garden. My brother sat on the front step, pretending to be grown up, imitating my mother and grandfather, sucking on a chocolate cigarette.

I can recall this memory as clear as the crystal glasses from my wedding day, so it must have happened.
Right?

Well, this is where I get confused, because when my mother passed away I acquired the family photographs. In one of the black bags that contained every snapshot of our childhood, in a number of photograph albums, was a familiar scene.

I recognised the bucket, the boy on the step. Now I'm wondering whether I saw this picture and that formed my memory or whether it just happened to be taken at the exact moment I recalled?

Spirit of the Wild

Ironically, an unusually hot, sunny afternoon broke through the bleak winter clouds as I was heading to an exhibition on climate change at Leeds Millennium Square, Spirit of The Wild, a free outdoor photographic exhibition.

Steve Bloom, an acclaimed photographer, has spent the last decade arranging, shooting, and collating this exhibit of endangered wildlife. During this time, he has travelled to some of the most remote regions on Earth, capturing images which powerfully portray the individual spirit of the animals.

The photographs are aesthetically pleasing and the colours brilliant. Vivid Wild Scarlet and Blue-Yellow Macaws, Toca Toucans and Parrots are all featured magnificently in flight, with Whooper Swans running for take off. However, Siberian Tigers are shown fighting in snow, as are pairs of sparring Polar Bears, their power intensely astute.

The photographs have been arranged so you purposely have to walk around each and every one. Their quality and clarity a tribute to Bloom's workmanship.

WWF-UK have researched and written amazing and astounding text to accompany these stunning pictures. They highlight the diversity and beauty of some of the world's most powerful creatures. Climate change is putting thousands animals at the risk of extinction. They also face risks ranging from habitat destruction and pollution, to poaching and illegal trade.

In the Information Centre, Steve Bloom documents how he put this outstanding assembly of work together. He explains how and why he felt the need to present these photographs and shows how he made it possible. The exhibition contains posters, pictures, books, not only on the contents of the exhibit, but information on how we can help prevent further damage to these animals and the environment.

As I, and many others walked, rather solemnly, around the stands specially erected for this event, the day seemed to match our moods. You could see the youth and innocence in the fresh faces of those newly arrived. Unfortunately, for those of us who had already seen the powerful images and read the information, our faces engraved with an expression of guilt and knowing. As the sun lowered for the evening and the floodlights came on, I found this gave the exhibit an strangely serene but harrowing dimension.

Spirit of the Wild is both a heart warming and soul destroying portrait of modern existence. It is a thought provoking and emotional journey that brings home the damage being caused. Each and every of us is responsible.

Steve Bloom's photography serves as a reminder that these animals are endangered and their habitats are vanishing; and of the beauty in the world, and our need to respect, protect, and preserve it. On leaving this exhibition, you will be fully informed of the damage and destruction we are causing everyday. It will make you question your choices.