For today’s crafty tutorial, we are going to show you How to Print on Burlap. There are several different ways you can print on Burlap, but for today’s tutorial we are going to print the easy way….from the home printer!
It’s a quick and fun tutorial, and I know you are all going to love this as much as I do.
How to Print on Burlap
DIY Print on Burlap
DIY Print on Burlap
First let us gather up our supplies needed: Burlap, Scissors, Freezer Paper, Iron, and Printer. (If you also have a Silhouette Machine, open up the Studio and start putting something fun together. Just make sure to place your setting at 8.5″ by 11″.)
How to Print on Burlap
Iron Your Burlap
After you have ironed the burlap, cut a piece of freezer paper to roughly the same size as the burlap. Iron this on (without steam) with the shiny sound down into the burlap. After they are ironed together, go ahead and cut your burlap and paper piece to 8.5″ x 11″.
Open up your computer and find something you would like to print. (I opened up my Silhouette Studio and found a cute phrase that I loved and wanted to print out for our house.) Once you have found what you want to print, do a test run with a blank sheet of paper. You will want to know how to place the piece into your printer tray. (My printer happens to print with the burlap starting in the tray facing down.) Ready????? PRINT!
Once you have your new masterpiece in hand, go ahead and remove the freezer paper backing.
You can also pull some of the strings on the edges to fray them a bit if you choose.
And there you have it, easy-peasy!
Here is another one I did this weekend for a friend who is having her baby this upcoming week…
Did you like this tutorial? Do you plan on doing your own print on burlap? If so, let me know! I love to get feedback. Do you feel like you know How to Print on Burlap now? You can follow me on Facebook here and on Twitter here.
I feel I missed a step. What is the freezer paper for? How do you know if your printer will take burlap, won’t it cause it to jam?
You have to cut your burlap and freezer paper to the correct size, and then iron on the freezer paper to the burlap following the directions in the post. Once they are joined together they can go through the printer. I am not sure this will work on EVERY printer, but it worked on mine, which is a HP 6500 inkjet.
I would like to know which program you use to make your wording? I tried using Microsoft Word but my letters cant get big enough. Thank you for your help & teaching us how to do this.
I have used my Silhouette free software that comes with the Silhouette machine,PhotoShop Elements, and I have also used Word.
In Word you can increase font size by manually typing in a number. I’ve done this for other paint projects and it worked great.
Did you have to change the settings on your printer to accept the burlap- perhaps to the card stock setting?
I actually don’t have anything that allows me to change the settings like that. However, if I could, I probably would.
I wonder if this would work on muslin?
I don’t know, I have never tried that before…
Yes, it works on muslin. I have printed pictures on the muslin to use on decorative pillows. But I am going to try the burlap.
Jennifer – thank you for the tutorial. You may have already figured this out in Word but in the drop down selection for font size all you need to do is make sure the current font is highlighted and type in the size you want (wording highlighted of course). The normal showing is 72pt. I just printed a few things at 300….now if the lines space out to far, solution: Screen print, paste back into word and crop, then you have the desired size! Easy peasy 😀
I’ve always been concerned about burlap fuzz jamming up my printer. My husband would kill me! 😉 Is that not a problem?
It wasn’t when I made this tutorial. You iron it down so it isn’t fuzzy. 🙂
How do you get your sayings to look so cute? Do you use a certain program
I either use something like PicMonkey, Photoshop, or use my Silhouette software. 🙂
I printed my saying but you could see black streakes were the printer heads went over the top of the material. How did you not get that on yours thanks
I am not sure, did you have that problem printing on regular paper as well?