Re: Making your own piecepack tiles from wood...

["kevineagles72" <KevinEagles72@...>]

--- In piecepack@yahoogroups.com, "M. Hale-Evans" <marty@m...> wrote:
> 
> To follow up on Ron's note: I've been using Mod Podge since I was a
> kid, and I think Ron's choice to print on cardstock for 'podging 
is a
> mistake.  MP is a water-based medium, and it works best when it can
> permeate the paper that's being applied to the wood, almost 
creating a
> medium that suspends the paper fibers, ink, etc. and bonds it to 
the
> wood.  Some of Ron's pieces are buckling as they dry and causing
> bubbles to form between the wood and the cardstock.  I think this
> happens because the cardstock is too thick to absorb the water in 
the
> MP evenly; it buckles as it gets wet, then the MP dries before it 
can
> flatten again.
> 
> If I were doing a set this way, I'd print the markings on paper, 
then
> cut them out, MP them down (possibly using a breyer [roller] to 
make
> sure the paper contacts solidly with the wood and to roll out
> bubbles), then coat them with a couple of coats of sealer MP.  
It's a
> little trickier to use paper in some ways -- it's more likely to 
get
> floppy and fold over on itself if you're not careful -- but in the 
end
> I think it might make a better finished project.  (Of course, I'm 
more
> likely to paint than decoupage, but that's just me.)
> 
> 
> Marty

Aha!

Thank you for your thoughts...I still might play around with the 
card stock...JCD has some cutout pyramids that look fun...

Tommorow I search for the MP, and some thinner paper :)

Eagles