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| Specialty
Paper |
| Instructions |
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1. |
First, select a focal photo (the one
you want to highlight) and enlarge it at picture kiosk or on your
personal computer. |
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2. |
Mount the focal photo on white cardstock. |
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3. |
Matte the focal photo on a piece of
black mulberry specialty paper leaving more than an inch border
around the entire photo. |
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4. |
Take a small paintbrush and dampen it
with water. About an inch from the edge of the photo dampen the
mulberry paper. Essentially, you should draw a square around the
focal photo. |
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5. |
Gently tug at the mulberry paper and pull off the
paper outside of the square. Be sure to leave a fringe of the mulberry
paper around the focal photo. You may have to dampen more areas
of the mulberry until you get the desired mulberry border around
the photo. |
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6. |
Mount the focal photo on the blue cardstock.
PLEASE NOTE: It’s always good to mount your photos on cardstock
before adhering
them to specialty papers. This will act as a buffer between the
photo and the specialty
paper. Specialty papers, like mulberry, do contain some lignin,
which can damage
photos over time. |
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7. |
Crop three photos into the same size and mount them
on a strip of black paper. |
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8. |
Then mount that horizontal strip onto a piece of white
cardstock. Adhere this strip to the 12x12 blue cardstock. |
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9. |
Print a title using your computer fonts or your own
handwriting. |
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10. |
Mount the white title onto black cardstock. |
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11. |
Punch to black eyelets at the bottom of title. |
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12. |
Cut out brown cardstock into the shape of a bone. |
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13. |
Use brown chalk and chalk along the edge of the bone
to give the cut-out some texture. |
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14. |
Wrap embroidery floss around the bone and attach the
bone to the title through the eyelets. |
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