Transferring Designs
By By Simon Raw-Rees & Mick Kelly  


     Whatever kind of craftsperson or artist you are, there will come a time when you wish to transfer some of your work to another surface. Of course there are lots of ways of doing this, but until Lazertran there wasn't anything perhaps as versatile. This book shows you how to put your flat, paper-based work onto a truly large range of different surfaces--from fabric to stone, candles to polymer clay. All you need is access to a photocopier; oh, if only it had been a colored inkjet printer, as I am sure many folk without immediate access to one will be saying, but nothing in this life is ever perfect! This having been done, the rest of the process is very simple and the product has the advantage of being easy to obtain, as it is available via the internet as well as via any clued-up craft shop. Just log onto www.lazertran.com for a user-friendly site with some ideas to tantalize as well as the product itself.

     This is one of those lavishly-illustrated but easy to use books that makes me want to grab some piece of artwork and get cracking. There are various-staged projects which manage to be fairly general, yet convey the simplicity but diversity of the slightly differing methods for the different surfaces and lots of highly imaginative and professional-looking end products to drool over. A lovely book--in fact, one of my favorite craft books to appear for some time and sure to appeal to a very wide range of people. Enjoyable and accessible for all levels.