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I've made this and this lately.

I bought some wintergreen oil and have been experimenting with transfers.

get something you want to copy onto another surface, like a xerox, newspaper, magazine page, etc. put on gloves and dip a cotton ball in the wintergreen oil. Position the paper (good side down) atop of your surface and start swabbing back and forth with the cotton ball - covering the entire surface with the oil. Do this for maybe 3 minutes or until the paper starts to fall apart. Then gently peel up a corner of the paper and you should see that the printing that was originally on the paper is now stuck to the opposite surface.

You can get wintergreen oil at herbal stores (like places that sell essential oils and incense), chemical stores (for the synthetic version "Methyl salicylate"), even online -- this woman sold to me very cheap.

You need to be careful because it is a poison. If you get on your skin, wash it off with soap and water. You definately don't want to ingest it. The fumes aren't that bad, it's just very... strong. It'll smell like a roll of breathsavers and muscle rub exploded - since it's used in both of those.