Thursday, April 26, 2012

Transfer Tape and its Use

By Jon Eberhardt


Working on craft projects can be therapeutic. The quantity of several technology developments and devices has handled to obtain easy to carry out the creative design within your minds. It has made it possible to transform the image in the minds into real craft objects.

Creating craft objects is a fun activity that an entire family can do together. The availability of various different kinds of materials also makes the entire process exciting. Today craft lovers can experiment with materials such a vinyl and also fabrics to some extent. This just adds a whole new dimension to craft making.

Vinyl is a revolutionary material that allows the craft lovers to step outside the traditional craft making techniques and experiment with new concepts and ideas. Conceptualization and ideating are fun when one gets to use vinyl as the base material. The vinyl comes in rolls or in the form of sheets. One can pick up vinyl from any art and craft store as per their requirement. It would be easy to get the vinyl sheets as cutting them to fit into the cutting machine tray will be a much simpler process.

One side of the vinyl is pasted with adhesive. The adhesive can be of the permanent or the temporary variety. The vinyl with the permanent adhesive is used for projects that are not of the make shift nature. Perfect example of these would be vinyl cut outs that are placed on the surface of cars or on gifting objects. The vinyl with temporary vinyl is used for everyday projects. The temporary adhesive makes it easy for the users to remove or discard it whenever they like. The adhesive side of the vinyl material is stuck onto a backing paper. The backing paper holds the adhesive in place and also prevents the vinyl from sticking to surfaces.

Similarly a transfer tape is also used while working with vinyl cut outs. The transfer tape seems much like a clear plastic sheet. After the vinyl is cut according to the desired design the transfer tape is stuck onto its upper surface. This is done in order to primarily ease the process of sticking the cut outs and secondly it also protects the surface from getting damaged. This is the use of transfer tape that is used with vinyl material. The transfer tape as well as the backing paper performs with one another to supply specialized touch for the entire craft project.




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