Needles 'n' Knowledge: Cheese Board Sprig and Graphic Bee

Small-scale leaves and berries arch fits within a 4” circle
footprint, with line drawing bee above.

Use design for small round plaque decoration

(vinyl or spray painted), personalizing on serve ware (etching),

as vinyl design to transfer onto selected surface,

or on small cutting board such as the small cutting board

or trivet shown below (scorch inked).

This "cutting board" was purchased (2022) from Hobby Lobby

as part of their "the Spring Shop" collection,

prepared with "Scorch Ink" then scorched using a high heat gun.

PROJECT AND PROCESS:

1. Find and study the Scorch Pen use guidelines

through their website and video presentations.

Here is one youTube video to check out:

A) As recommended, be sure to sand through several

progressively-finer grit sand papers. For this project,

I sanded using a final grade of 400 on the surface to be

"burned".

2. Prepare the bee and flourish vinyl stencil then

remove it from its carrier paper, and . . .

. . . center it onto the surface to be scorched.

3. Continue to follow the prescribed instructions

from the Scorch marker manufacturers.

Including the best way to ink inward to avoid pushing

the ink under the stencil vinyl.

4. When the inking ins completed, carefully pull back

the stencil, watching for the ink to make sure all areas

were thoroughly applied as it is removed, in case

it needs to be carefully replaced for re-inking.

Otherwise, remove vinyl completely.

5. Use the prescribed heat level tool to process

the ink so that it turns to the scorch mark that is desired.

NOTES: A) the project shown is birch, and it took more

time to change over to the wood burn depth of color

that I wanted;

B) depending on the wood selected, the heat tool can

create a scorch cloudiness around the design

where the heat affects the wood. (This is the main

problem I have had using the scorch ink - I really want

it to look like wood burning and not just change color.)

Here is my finished project.

There is even a little bit of scorch cloudiness

around the inked lines of my project, I'm sorry to admit.

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