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These photos are taken in the Casa's bathroom. I've been doing much experimenting with tiles for this project! This is the evolution of a few different ideas. The wall surface; foamcore board has been scored in a grid - an already quite convincing tile surface! Then I glued each little printed tile in place. How I wish I had this product I recently learned about through microminis - Triple Thick - made by DecoArt! Unfortunately it isn't available locally and to have it shipped to me would turn a $4 item into a $20 one so that isn't about to happen! So instead, I'm at two coats of glaze squarely on each tile, (on the bottom 3 rows so far) trying to achieve a little more dimension and realism.
I think we're getting there...but the thing that's bothering me...and let's face it, if it's bothering me now I'd better address it because you know it's not likely to bother me less in the years to come!...is the size of those grout lines. There is a cavernous space between those tiles. I think I need to print some tiles even a fraction larger because it's too much work to do and have done it wrong.
That's my thought today anyways! :)
4 comments:
Afraid I will have to agree with you, Cate but those tiles are really pretty!
I think the tiles look wonderful Cate! I was invisioning that each tile has a white border so I guess I didn't think the grout was too big in my eyes! hugs, ara
Hi Cate! Tell me, when you printed the tiles, did you put them on regular paper, or did you use a heavier paper such as cardstock, or other? About to tile my garden, just curious what your experiments have lead to, so as not to re-invent the wheel...Kim :)
Hi Kim! I had Staples do the printing with their laser printer - I don't believe I specified any special sort of paper at all. The laser printer ink finish has such a lovely sheen to it!
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