I adore the look of black and white canvas photos and Plaid’s new Mod Podge
Photo Transfer Medium was totally calling my name from my basement stash (I have a basement stash! LOVE the new house!) for this project.
Just like our last house, we’re working on this house a little bit at a time. Last week I got a little ADD with my painting: I painted the hallway – most of it anyway, I painted the stairs (project coming soon), I started painting our master bedroom, I painted a little of the basement family room.
And so far none of it is finished!
But I did tackle this one *complete* and EASY personalized piece of art for our bedroom…
Mod Podge Photo Transfer Medium Project
Supplies
- Mod Podge Photo Transfer Medium
- Canvas
- INK jet printout of photo
- foam brushes (2)
- scissors
- water
- sponge
- paint
Step One
Choose your photo. Using a photo editing software (I used GIMP), size to fit your canvas. If desired change mode to grayscale. Print photo on PLAIN paper. Photo paper will NOT work. Trim photo to fit canvas, leaving about a half inch space for border around the edge. Transfer Medium doesn’t dry clear, so be sure to trim right to the edge of your image or you’ll have a white outline.
Step Two
On a protected surface (you don’t want glue-ish stuff all over, do you?!), using a sponge brush to spread a thick layer of Transfer Medium all over the FRONT SIDE of your photocopied, trimmed photo. (Ask me why FRONT SIDE is in all caps.) All you want to see is WHITE.
Step Three
Without touching the sticky surface, place your photo paper sticky side down onto your canvas. Tap gently in the center and then smooth outwards toward the edges on all sides, removing air bubbles as you go. LET DRY FOR 24 HOURS.
Step Four
Softly press a fairly wet sponge onto the image on canvas until the entire thing is damp to wet. Now squeeze out the sponge into a cup. Using a circular motion and the damp sponge, rub the paper off the canvas; you’ll see it sort of rub off in small pieces Continue until all you see is your transferred image. Gently brush off any additional paper pieces and let dry.
Step Five
Using a foam brush and black craft paint, carefully paint just the edges of the canvas. And voila an easy custom canvas in just 5 simple steps!
I think this Photo Transfer Medium is going to come in VERY handy for a whole bunch of projects brewing around in my little ol’ brain – since it makes it SO easy to personalize any surface with favorite photos or even graphics created on the computer!
You can find Mod Podge Photo Transfer Medium at Michael’s.
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Love it! Great photo
Debbie
Wonderful photo! I love how it turned out!
Thank you!
Your canvas turned out SO cool! Thanks for sharing the tutorial; definitely on my list of things to do.
Just saw this with a map on pinterest, but the link to the blog post wasn’t very detailed. Then I saw your post and was glad to get more details!!
Oh I’m so glad it was helpful, Brooke! Have fun!
Love this! It turned out so good!
This is so cool!!
I’ll have to try it too, thank you so much for the tutorial
Very cool! I love the vintage look it gives! (P.S. Digging your new site!)
Thank you Shauna! You’re so sweet!
I love this, it turned out fantastic! I am currently in the middle of our Master Bedroom Makeover and I could totally see our wedding photos displayed like this! Would love for you to share at the party! xo bridgett
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Yes! A wedding photo would be beautiful!
This turned out great! I’d love to try this sometime. It would be fun to do with word art too (remembering to print a mirror reflection!)
Absolutely! Good eye with the reverse image! xo.
I really want to try this. It looks so cool!
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Such a cool craft! I love it.
Cool and simple way to make a canvas picture. If anyone want’s and alternative to this cool post than I will recommend this website: http://www.sumopix.com/en/photo-on-canvas . They make photo on canvas very cheap and in very good quality.
Awesome Shannon!! I really love the faded look . . . especially with photos. I just love the vintage touch the medium gives the finished project!
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Nice work! And a nice break from painting walls! I’ve heard of doing this. I just need to beef up my photo editing skills. They are sorely missing! By the way, it’s a great photo of the two of you!
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Best to you,
Barbara
i love this…….i use to do something similiar with fimo clay, photos and gin…..have a photo that i want to do this too…..cant wait to try it……thanks for sharing.
wow, nice picture it’s just great :O
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