Photo on tile?
 

Hi,
I have seen some ceramic tiles that have digital photos copied on them. Anyone know how to do this?
TIA:)

I think it's a special medium that you paint over a photo to make it transfer. You can do it with stamping supplies though... it's just more fiddly.

Here is what I did.

1. print your photo onto tissue paper, you might have to tape your tissue paper onto a regular piece of paper or cardstock if your printer will not feet it in.
2. trim the photo to fit the tile
3. cover the tile in crystal effects
4. Lay the tissue ( that has been printed with the photo) over the crystal effects on the tile.
5. You can smooth out any bubbles with your hand or a brayer
6. Seal the tile with crystal effects.

These tiles can not be submerged, but they look great!


Kerri

Kerri,
Great to know that this can be done with SU supplies. Do you happen to know what type of medium should be used to transfer the photos so that they are water resistent or water proof?

Thanks,
Sharon

Photos on tiles
 

I have made several tiles with photos. I used a kit called Tilano Fresco - I used the marble coaster kit. They also make a glass tile kit & a wood one too. I am in Canada so I'm not sure about the USA. The kit comes with the medium & everything to do 4 coasters. The photos have to be colour laser copied onto the special transfer paper they supply in the kit. It was a lot of fun making them. Good luck!

Photo on tile?
 

You can also apply the same technique and transfer your photo onto a candle, just print your image onto tissue paper (no easy job), trim, cover the image with wax paper then heat with your heating tool until you see the wax has melted ever so slightly. To bring the candle back to the original sheen, rub with an old nylon. I have done this for my daughters wedding favors and finished them with a ribbon. She is really pleased.

these links might help

www.gypsyhearth.com/projects/coasters.htm

http://community.discovery.com/group...5/r/4881947728

www.kidsturncentral.com/crafts/tfcoasters.htm

www.thecrazyquilter.com/ptcoastersin.htm

If you look in Paper Craft Magazine this month they give the web site to order the tiles that stampingfun2 is talking about i saw them this morning. I hope i can give the name of a magazine in here. if not im sorry

No worries about posting names of websites, products or anything else here... it's all good, as long as it benefits us as stampers, lol!!

Oh, as for the transer, there's a product called Lazertran that works really well, although it is a bit spendy. Very easy though!

You can also print your picture onto T-shirt iron on transfers. Reverse image and print on your printer. Trim carefully around photo. Using iron ( highest non- steam setting) heat the tile coaster for about a minute. Flip iron-on transfer carefully onto tile and iron. becareful not to move transfer or it will smear. Do Not lift paper off until tile has cooled some. Seal with water resistant sealer.
This will work on any size tile; smooth or porous ceramic, stone or bisqueware
We did these with our Granddaughter's picture.

Hi out there - my first official post to SCS - WHOOO! The transfer method is do-able with an acrylic medium gel - available at Walmart in the craft section with the Plaid acrylic paints. You need to print your photo onto regular copy paper - then using the porous tumbled marble tiles (available at Home Depot) you place the photo side DOWN onto the tile, apply a liberal coating of the acrylic medium and then wait approximately 10 - 20 minutes for the photo to transfer off the paper onto the tile. The paper will then rub off with water, leaving the photo behind. Once dry, the tile must be sealed with a clear acrylic sealant, again I buy mine at Walmart, made by Plaid and not very expensive.

I want to try the cystal effects method too. I'll bet if you use the clear sealant over top the coasters would be easier to clean. You could wipe them with a damp cloth. You could not submerse the coasters done with the gel medium either.

They make a great engamement or wedding gift with pictures of the couple... or for grandparents with the kids on there. The tumbled marble is also soft enough you can drill a small indentation out of the back so that you can hang the coasters for display on a wall.

Most importantly, use the acrylic sealant by applying mulitple light coats the recommended distance for the tile. (at least 12 inches) If you spray too close or too heavily, your image can feather or bleed so that it is no longer clear. HTH Have a great night! Tanya in B.C.

Wow this thread is great.
Thanks to everyone for sharing their experience and tips!
Many thanks-
Sharon

Thank you ladies!!! i appreciate all of your tips!!!

Wow!! These are really neat great tips! I can't wait to try doing one. I had seen picture tiles of historical buildings done by a professional photographer last fall at a craft show and had wondered how they were done. I would like to do the same, but with my kids pictures for Christmas presents for grandparents and aunts and uncles. Actually, the more I think about the possibilities, maybe I could so some of the cards I stamped. I have taken photos of them to upload.:-D

You can also make a color photocopy and then spray cheap gin on it to transfer the picture

will try to find the more in depth instructions when I get home from work if you are interested

I am always interested in cheap gin ;) . Seriously... I would love to see the instructions. Thanks for sharing this tip.

Here are the directions I have:

Fill a spritzer bottle with the gin
Get a color photo copy of your picture using a toner based, heat infused copier.
Lay copy face down on rolled out and conditioned clay or tile
Burnish set
Spritz with gin and rub with your finger.
Paper disinegrates and photo is left
Bake to heat set

Would love to see some results if anyone tries it

Tanyabinne- I can't find the gel medium you mentioned at my Walmart. Could you forward the specific type of gel you used to transfer the copies?
Thanks!

Thanks a bunch,
I will let you know when I get a chance to try this out. Sounds very doable!

Subscribing to the thread
 

so I can go home and try this tonight!!

i did this last year with molding clay and gin.. making jewelry beads for necklaces.
it was a huge hassle.. and hard because the image tore on the porous holes.. but it is possible.
i baked the clay in the oven iwth the image on it.. then used more gin to disenegrate the paper.
i havent made large tiles though.

I bought a product called Omni-Gel at Michael's. It is a transfer medium, I found it in the glue section. I went to buy tiles at Lowes today, but they were re-doing some sections of the store, and the tile isle was roped off! I wasn't happy. I really want to try this. If it comes out nice I might make some as Christmas gifts.
I did notice that the omni-gel mentions that ink jet prints do not copy well. So now I'm wondering what type of copy do I need?
Dina

I have heard that copier copies work well.
Here is a link that I just found
http://www.abovethemark.com/howtos/omnigel.htm
HTH

This link is probably better

http://www.abovethemark.com/howtos/transfers/index.htm

Hope I'm not restating someone else's tips, but I've just finished making some of these and here's what I found:

I didn't have luck with the t-shirt transfer.......it didn't want to all stick

I had better luck with the tissue paper, although the pp was right, it's no easy task getting them through the printer. I used some cheap cs and just adheared it with mono completely across the top, then a few places on the bottom. I think half of mine worked.

As far as the photos themselves that you pick, it seems to look better if the subject is standing in front of a light background and their face is dark (I made mine b&w). My ds is in front of a dark background and his face is light, and the holes in the tiles make it look like he's got pits in his face :rolleyes:

I just modge podged them on, and they look great! Hope that helps someone!

I was watching the DIY network on my lunch hour today. Don't know the name of the show but they used "decal" paper. They printed their image onto the decal paper, cut out, applied to their tile, sealed and that was it. I have no idea where you buy decal paper but I thought it was such a neat idea, I'm going to look for it - for those instances when a stamped tile coaster might not be appropriate.

They also affixed 3 tiles on a long ribbon and hung them up - very cool.

USING TISSUE PAPER FOR TRANSFER IMAGE TO TILE
 

Try cutting a piece freezer paper and tissue paper the same size as your computer printer paper. Iron the glossy side of the freezer paper to the tissue paper. Place in you printer on top of some regular paper. Print your design. Remove Tissue paper from Freezer paper.