CUTE!!!!

I finished my project. Woo Hoo! I ended up rinsing the fabric/paper and scraping it off while it was wet. Didn't get all of it, but for this pillow I wasn't too worried.

Another way to loosen the fabric is to make a "tear" near a corner. The paper backing will tear, but the fabric won't - and it's easier to get the fabric off that way.

As for removing the adhesive... I haven't used Printed Treasures for a while, but I seem to remember that it uses an adhesive backing paper. I once left an adhesive name tag on a favorite shirt and threw it in the washer/dryer. The paper part of the label came off, but the adhesive was pretty well stuck to the fabric. I remember using another label to press up and down on the sticky area (many, many times) and the adhesive came off the the fabric and stuck to the label bit by bit. The thing is, I'm pretty sure that I added either heat (iron with baking parchment over the sticky area) or cold (threw the shirt in the freezer). I just can't remember which one worked! Seems like heat would make the adhesive more gummy, but I'm not sure if that would make things better or worse. Cold would make the adhesive less gummy. I think that maybe I would try the freezer first and if that doesn't work, then try heat.

Mary Kay, I don't know about the photo paper, but I have found that using a straight pin to catch just the corner of the fabric will easily separate it from freezer paper when I'm doing appliqué. (Look ma! No nails!) Maybe it will work for the photo paper?
As for the stuck paper, maybe a hot iron would loosen it? I can't remember where I saw it, but recently on the forum someone suggested that you use a hot iron and aluminum foil to remove adhesive stuck on fabric from fusible web. Might be worth a try?

I'm using Printed Treasures Inkjet Printable fabric.

Mary Kay, what brand of fabric are you using? If you treated your own with Bubble Jet Set, what did you use for the backing?

Help, the backing isn't coming of the fabric/paper. It was like taking off a price tag and some of it got stuck behind. Also, do you have a trick for separating the paper from the fabric at the corner (especially if you don't have long fingernails). Thanks.

jeaniesa wrote:
Oh! Of course! It makes perfect sense when you explain it. Thanks, Jeanie!

games, I just sent you a private message.

Jeanie Thanks for answering so soon. There is NO icon on my desktop. There is nothing under "programs" accessories or any where else.
I am using Windows XP and the lessons that do show under documents are PSE lessons. When I loaded the CD my screen stayed blank.[kinda like my mind right now

games, You should have an icon on your desktop for Photoshop Elements. Double-click that icon and it should bring up the Photoshop Elements welcome screen. You will then probably have some choices - choose "editor" or "edit" (I can't remember exactly what it's called in PSE5. If you let me know what choices you have, I can let you know which one to choose.)

If you don't have an icon on your desktop, please let me know what operating system you are running (Windows XP, Vista or 7?)

Also, I'm not sure what you mean by "the lessons show up in my documents". What lessons are you referring to? Photoshop Elements lessons? My printing on fabric lessons? Something else?

you all have just left me in the dust. I got PSE5 got to-]creating a catalog]- and NO WHERE can I find PSE on any drive. I have loaded it twice and still can't find it in documents or anywhere. Do I need some special software for photos? Let me clarify. The lessons show up in my documents but I can't pull up Photoshop Elements Welcome screen. Can anyone help me? please

EditorAnne asked the following question in the comments for the Printing on Fabric - Printing 2 lesson:

I thought I'd answer Anne's question here since I'm sure many of you will run into this.

The skewing happens when the grain of the fabric is not square on the backing paper. Take a good look at your fabric sheet before you print on it. If you see the grain of the fabric running at an angle to the edges of the backing, you will find that the fabric skews as soon as it hits the water in the rinse step. The worse the angle, the more skewing will occur. For example, if you follow one horizontal thread near the top of the sheet of fabric and find that on the left side it's 1/4" from the top of the sheet but on the right side it's 1/2" from the top, then the fabric will skew 1/4" once it hits the water. I've found that I can work pretty easily with a 1/4" skew, but when it gets to be 1/2", then it's a bit more challenging (and frustrating)!

I have to say, I've had much better luck with EQ Printables than other fabric in this regard, but I've trained myself to always "analyze" my fabric sheets before printing. If I find a fabric sheet that looks bad, I place it in a separate stack for "test prints" and don't use it in my final project.

I have found that I can still work with slightly distorted images by pressing/steaming the heck out of it and hoping that the other fabric I sew it together with will keep it in shape. As a last resort, I "quilt it out".

The only way I know of to completely prevent the skewing is to treat your own fabric with Bubble Jet Set, because then you have complete control over how the fabric is placed on the freezer paper. I usually tear the fabric along the grain a little larger than sheet size to ensure that the fabric is square to the grain, treat the fabric with BJS, then iron onto freezer paper (also a little larger than needed) and finally trim to size. That said, I'm usually doing things at the last minute and don't have time for that whole process (and I've had good luck with the EQ Printables.)

Hope this helps. And if you have any other questions regarding this, feel free to ask!

Oh, Mary Kay! I'm laughing out loud!!! Too cute!!