I did a cake early this week for a friend and wanted to try using an edible image for the first time. So, I take the pic to Wal-Mart and have them make the edible image, bring it home and place it on top of my crusted buttercream. By the next day, it had completely soaked through with grease and did not look good at all!
So...I'm guessing I should have something in between the bc and the image??

Hi, I had this happen to me too.
I now put a thin layer of fondant under the image.

Cx

It is suppose to meld into BC. Was there any moisture to adhear it to the BC?

I guess it could have accumlated a little moisture overnight. I had it covered in saran wrap. It had little bubbles all in it too.

You have to smooth it out after putting it on the BC. I use a paper towel and fondant smoother to get all the air bubbles out. If you need to cover it put it in cake box DON'T use saran wrap of cake caddy - too much moisture builds up.

I agree with tiggy, make sure you get it smooth, saran wrap just held in moisture causing it to become too moist. Also, if make sure you cake is completely cooled before applying the image.

ah right, thanks for the tips.
When it happened to me I rang the maufacturer (I print mine myself) and they said it's not suitable for buttercream or cream cheese icing.
Will give your methods a try, it will save using fondant!

Claire

Originally thats all that the images worked with. There are different brands out there, not that many though. All that I know of works with BC. What manufacturer said not to use it no BC?

I am in the UK so it may be a slightly different product - I use Deco.

It definately doesn't work on cream cheese icing which is the thing I use most.

I didn't know Walmart would do an image for you! Good to know. Do you have to give them a few days notice? How much do they charge? Thanks!!!!

I beleive Walmart uses a thinner icing sheet. There are several different types of icing sheets out there. There is the older style that is the most familiar to everyone. That one will be the most likely to bubble up or to crack when it drys or even stick to the backing when it is humid. Lucks has their brand which everyone knows as edible images, those used for the preprinted licensed ones that you see in stores. Finally, the newest one on the market is the thickker, but not too thick. That is the Icing Images Premium brand. You can put that on most anything and it is fine. Even though it is thicker, it still melds in to the frosting as long as there the icing is damp.