18×18 Chalk Couture Transfers

Update 2020:  While I still enjoy the craft, I’m no longer involved with Chalk Couture.

Good morning!   This is just going to be a quick post on how I slayed the 18×18 dragon!  The 18×18 Chalk Courture transfers can be really difficult to work with if you don’t have a second pair of hands.  The first time I tried…..well, let’s just say there were a lot of bad words involved!!  It was sticking on itself, sticking on me, sticking on the surface I was trying to use…it was really frustrating.   Aagghhh!

So, I thought — there are other transfers you have to line up and that works well so why can’t I cut it into 4 squares and just line it up?  It was my a-ha moment!

As I was cutting it I thought I’d better mark each section so I’d know how to line it back up.

Note:  If I had to do it again, I wouldn’t cut it in exactly 9″ squares because that made the cut right in the center of a circle.  It makes more sense to NOT cut in the middle of a circle, to cut in an area where you don’t have to add chalk between two transfers.  Oh well, lesson learned.  It still worked the way I did it.

Because I live in the very dry desert of Arizona, chalk dries fast!  That was another bonus of cutting the transfer.  It allowed me to chalk in sections.  But this first one I did I made a big mistake…I grabbed the wrong tub!  I wanted the ink but I grabbed the paste.  Ugh!  We’ll call this one a sample.  🙂

So that’s it.  It worked beautifully!

I plan to cut all my 18×18 transfers down to a manageable size.  I can’t take the pressure of working with that big, sticky monster!  I hope this helps you if you’re having the same frustrations I was having.

Happy tinkering,

Susan