While I was sitting at the Ferndale DIY assembling a puzzle for fun, I mentioned to a fellow member that I had painted each piece by hand. He then told me that I was insane and let me know that if I covered a painting with contact paper it should laser with little burn.
"Haven't you ever read the posters by the bathrooms?"
Apparently I had not. Because I checked those posters first thing on my next restroom visit. The answer was right there in front of my face, contact paper. And it really worked. I tested the idea out on this unicorn puzzle.
Then switched to pre-painting some Christmas ornaments and necklaces…
Contact paper (in realty, I used painters tape. It works the same way) is my new best friend on the lasers. This way I could use higher quality paint and paint brushes instead of the paint pens I had used before.
Can't wait to see what other not-so-secret secrets I don't know :)