How-to-make: Transferring your pictures to fabric!

Actual photograph on the left & Printed fabric on the right

Fabric was ironed onto Freezer Paper before printing

Supplies needed:

1.  Reynolds Freezer Paper (comes in 50SF/75SF and 150SF)...I recommend the 50SF because it's 15" wide and you'll waste less. The price listed is for 150SF size.

2.  Your favorite picture

3.  Muslin or a light-weight and light-colored fabric where the image will end up

4.  An iron

5.  A home printer

What to do next:

1.  Cut your freezer paper and fabric to 8 ½ x 11” in size

2.  Place your freezer paper film side down onto cut fabric

3.  Iron at a fairly warm setting on the paper side (this way the film will not get onto your iron in any way…so REMEMBER don’t iron on the fabric side or you’ll be cleaning and maybe even destroying your iron).Make sure and iron with even strokes ensuring all edges are sealed together.

4.  Scan your picture and have it handy (save it to your desktop for now).

5.  Take your sealed fabric/paper combo and place it into your printer in manual feed. IF you do not know what side your print will show up on… do a quick test by feeding a blank sheet of paper with a hand-drawn X. Feed it through and see what side your print comes out on. Remember what side your paper was fed through and do it again, but this time with the fabric side so it gets the printed end result. Most of us have done this test for some reason or another, so I have great faith that this test will be a simple one for you. J

6.   Open your picture file and hit print… Depending on how much ink you have or the density of saturation in the original picture…that’s the result you will have.

7.   Hooray!!!  Your picture fabric panel is ready to use in any project!

I am really BIG on genealogy, so my panels were used in making soft family genealogy booklets. And my apologies...I had already given them away before the began this blog. So, who is that lady in the picture??? That was my mom at age 18! In those good old days gone by!! Boy, do I miss her...

This can be a really great family project all could do together!

NOTE:  Your print result will always be 8 ½ x 11 because it must go through your printer. Should you want a larger image…you can always secure to a large piece of fabric for larger projects by sewing or gluing.

Cost to make:  <$9.00 and your cost could be a lot less if you make multiple projects.

This includes the Reynolds Freezer Paper…150 SF at Walmart <$6.00 (and you can make lots of projects) and using a FAT quarter of fabric from Joann’s about $0.99 if on sale or $1.99 if not and you already have the printer ink and your personal elbow grease to get the job done!

Mark Montano, artist and author recommends TAP (Transferring Artist Paper)...I've never used it, but will on my next photo project!! Thanks Mark for that recommendation! 

Handmade ensures memories that last a lifetime!