February 1st, 2012
Inside: how to make printers tray for family photos I was lucky to have grandparents until I was in my fourties. When we celebrated my grandmother’s 80th birthday I wanted o make somehing special for her. I made her a printers tray displaying treasured family photos of three generations of her family. WHAT IS A PRINTERS TRAY A printers tray or letterpress drawer is a thin wooden tray with compartments. These drawers were part of a larger printing cabinet that were common between the 15th and 19th centuries. The small sections store letter stamps or “sorts” that were used in a printing press for printing. Letterpress drawers are also referred to as type cases, type drawers and printer block drawers. HOW AND WHERE TO GET LETTERPRESS DRAWER Some people are lucky enough to find a tray or an entire cabinet in their attic, but this is a much less common occurrence since the …
Inside: how to make your own button tree embellishment When I sit down to create a page I usually have an idea and when I start working this idea takes shape. My idea for this photo was to create a scene around the photo. Since the boys were pointing at something in the distant view I wanted to complete the story by creating a near view of where they were standing. HOW TO MAKE A SCENE Making a scene is basically adding embellishments to complete a vision of a scene or a place. So instead of embellish a page with abstract or cluster embellishments you actually create a scene like you would in a painting. The scene for this photo is a path with flowers and a tree shading the two boys. MAKING A BUTTON TREE One of my favorite things to do when I create a scrapbook page is to …
Inside: how to make a DIY spiral paper flower for scrapbook pages, cards and paper crafts How many times did you need an embellishment for a project you were working on but didn’t have what you wanted? It was the wrong size, the wrong color or the wrong shape… there is nothing more annoying to stop working on a project because you don’t have what you need to finish it! I never find myself in this situation because I make my own embellishments! I started doing that when I started scrapbooking because when I started there was simply nothing to use. The scrapbooking industry didn’t exist here and I could buy any papers or embellishments even if I wanted to… so I had to make what I needed. Since then it became kind of a personal challenge to be self sufficient when it comes to embellishments and I try to buy as little as I can …
