"Arcana Pentacle Raven" - Wood Box

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I made another pentacle raven wood box, using a cigar box, similar to this design, this design and this design.

I created this using GIMP 2.10.12.

The vintage images are from an Internet search. (See the side of my blog for links.)

I wanted to use an inkjet image transfer method, to transfer only the ink onto the gold painted wood box top, but the methods I used failed to work, so I ended up using my standard decoupage method.

These are the three transfer methods that didn't work, using the above design with a clear background, not the gold background used for the decoupage method:

1) Avery full sheet clear (transparent) mailing label page - I printed the image onto the clear mailing label side of the page, peeled off the backing, and placed the image sticky side down onto the lid. Despite using a brayer, the label had air bubbles and was opaque, not clear (when the package claimed it was clear).

2) Avery full sheet white mailing label page - I mirror image printed onto the white mailing label side of the page, but when I tried to remove the page, it adhered to the box top and peeled off the paint when I was able to pull it off.

3) Avery full sheet clear (transparent) mailing label page - I mirror image printed onto the clear mailing label side of the page, and the page successfully peeled off, but the ink on the box top ran / smeared, and some of the ink remained on the clear sheet, so it wasn't a 100% transfer. The ink smearing was so bad it was unusable.

So far, the best method to get a 100% ink transfer is still the Highline Guitars inkjet image transfer method, but it's not simple to do, and the crease lines for peeling off the label(s) appear as lines in the transferred image.