Sheer Heaven transfers look great on a number of surfaces, and we will show you some examples of those we have tried. But one of our most exciting discoveries was that we could actually put artwork into some of those handmade paper journals - the ones that you buy because they are so textural and beautiful, and then, when you get home, you find there is almost no media that will work well on its pages. Here is an example of one.
We bought this journal because of the nice rustic cover and woven center. The inside pages were rough and difficult to paint, draw or write on - but very porous. We decided to try a transfer. You can see below that this isn’t the actual print we used - we ended up choosing a cropped enlargement from this photo instead.
We loved the look of the resulting transfer and decided to make this journal a study of changing leaf colors. As Fall is coming on, the garden is full of potential images. Notice how the texture of the paper affects the look of the transfer.
Sample Transfers:
When something this exciting comes along, you just find yourself trying transfers on anything that can’t run away from you fast enough (all the furry staff were hiding during this stage). We thought you would like to see some of the results:
Mat Board
This is the transfer made with the leaf photo shown at the top of this page.

The receiver was a piece of light sage colored matboard.

We have found the transfer method to work on all the mat boards we tried. The texture of the board, if there is one, becomes part of the “look” of the transfer.
Painted Lace
We bought this beautiful hand painted lace (bottom half of picture) at Art Unraveled - from Denise Marie Doll Art
(denisemarie-dollart.com).

We laid it on the bed of our HP inkjet copier and copied it onto a piece of Sheer Heaven - then transferred the print to hot press watercolor paper (shown above the lace). We were really impressed with how much the transfer looked like the actual lace.