What is Sublimation Iron-on-Ink?
Iron-on-Ink is a special ink that transferred to polyester fabrics/poly-coated items when it is heat pressed. The ink turns to a gas, and your sublimation design gets embedded onto your sublimation blank! This leaves you with a permanent and durable design. Artesprix sublimation stamp pads are formulated with Iron-on-Ink. This allows us to utilize our rubber stamps and/or stencils to create sublimation designs! Then, these designs can be transferred on a sublimation blank once they’re heat pressed!
Supplies:
Kitchen Towel
Sublimation Stamp Pads
Heat Resistant Tape
Protective Paper Roll
Heffy Doodle Highlander Stencil
Mixed Media Paper
Gel Press
Blending Brush
Rubber Brayer
Heat Press
Step-by-Step Tutorial:
Step 1: Choose two or 3 sublimation stamp pad colors, I went with red and black to keep it festive and simple! Ink the Gel Press Plate with red, as a background color. After inking the plate with your sublimation stamp pad, go over it with your rubber brayer.
Pro Tip: Using a brayer will help us achieve a blended and uniform-colored background for our design!
Step 2: Once you’re finished, lay your mixed media paper onto the gel press plate to pull the red Iron-on-Ink that we laid out.
Step 3: (Optional) For my towel, I’ll be sublimating this design on both ends so I repeated this step!
Step 4: Use masking tape to secure the plain stencil it in the center of your colored background!
Step 5: Use your black bending brush with sublimation stamp pad ink and apply color through the stencil.
Pro Tip #2: To achieve a two-colored plaid pattern, start by only coloring all the squares in the stencil one color. Then, color the remainder of the stencil with your other color of choice. So, I used my red sublimation stamp pads and a blending brush to fully color all the squares. After I finished, I used the black sublimation stamp pads for the rest of the stencil.
Step 6: One the design is finished and dry, cut down and around the design as desired for your final transfer.
Step 7: Tape your design face down on one end of the towel using heat resistant tape.
Step 8: Cut two large pieces protective paper and apply them the top and bottom of the towel. The protective paper catches any extra Iron-on-Ink and keeps your Kitchen Towel white where intended.
Step 9: It is time to press your design! Your heat press should be set to 380°F and 60 seconds.
Step 10: We recommended to peek at how your design transferred before removing any tape. If you peek and find that your colors are not bright, you can re-press your design.
Step 11: Once you've confirmed your transfer was successful, reveal your design! I absolutely love how these turned out!
Step 12: Allow first transfer to cool completely before repeating Steps 7-11 for other areas of the Kitchen Towel.
I love how the plaid pattern is centered with a colored background! I experimented with the same idea and used other colors, and both turned out beautiful!
This was such a fun project for the holidays, and I hope you try making it yourself! This plaid towel would look amazing with your Christmas décor so make sure you grab one! If you’re gifting a crafter this season, check out Artesprix’s sublimation starter kit!
I hope today’s post inspired you to try it in your next crafting project! Don’t forget to share your creations with us on Instagram or Facebook! I am on Instagram, Facebook and TikTok, let’s keep in touch!
Keep on crafting!
Best,
Sara Ali
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