Friday, February 3, 2012

Transferring Text

Okay, so I have a secret...Remember my: "Valentines Day Cards" post?

When I was doing that project, I probably went through three cards trying to perfect my handwriting. I was getting so frustrated, I decided I would use a trick I learned in my middle school art class to transfer text from one paper to another. I thought it would only be fair to share that trick with you all!

1. First, print off the text you would like to use:


2. Flip your paper over, and use a pencil and color over the  the area of text you'd like to transfer:


3. Flip your paper over again, and place it directly over the sheet of paper you'd like to transfer the text to.

4. Get your pencil back out, and use it to trace over the original text.


5. You'll see that the pressure from the pencil is able to transfer onto whatever is underneath it.


6. To make it look professional, I went back over the pencil with a sharpie marker, and then used an eraser to get rid of any rouge pencil marks.


This is what my text looked like when I was all done! Pretty close to the original from the printable template right?



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