peeling of the backing - not!

today i had trouble with one piece of silk, a teenaged face - spent way too long trying to get the backing off the silk.

I had it sit this time at least a week before ironing it as the directions say, and letting it cool. But after i ironed it, the paper and glue did not peel cleanly.

so i worked and worked. I eventually got the back wet to soak off the paper. now it's as hard on my fingers as a transfer from a print on paper using Golden gel! further, all the work i did abraded the pigment on the silk and made scratches. one of the disadvantages of pigments over inks is that they sit on top more and don't sink in as inks do.

Then the next 3 faces, cut from the same page of silk printed at the same time, came right off! AAUURRGGG!!! well i guess i should be pleased when it works but it makes no sense to me when it doesn't.

when i ironed it, i noticed that some yellow stained the cloth i'd put underneath -- just like with the Lazertran for light cloth and i'm thinking the Epson ink doesn't like heat!!!! (actually that doesn't make sense cuz it does not hapen with Lazertran for dark materails which also is heated to peel off the back.)

fortunately the faces on the blumenthal silk are small.
hey you want to buy an unopened roll of this stuff????

I thought i was going to use it for smaller projects but if it's so hard to peel i'm not sure it's worth the effort!


Anyway, as a result of scratching the face, i changed what was to be the picture used as the dolls face for the teenage page. I will use the now scratched up face as a secondary pic. in the background. but by then i was getting careless and sewed the face on right side out so it was wrong side out when i turned it.

no problem, i just painted it with water colors.

6 hours later i will have the next head in the book done. sigh!

it looks good tho.

so i think i'll print out some photos, so straight ahead. no fuss no muss. when one's computer is behaving that is!