Transforming Plain Card into Seasonal Card
| The above shows some Japanese craft papers transforming plain card to dressy, Seasonal photocards. |  |
I made photocards for three years, and one year I found myself wondering about some beautiful, but too-thin paper and the significance of its photonic qualities. | Art paper makers care. I had been using a beautiful, crystalline ricepaper but felt that the thinner paper would prove to beautify my cards on a skinnie budget, if I pasted less than 50% of the surface with quality rice paper. |
| STEPS | LAY OUT CARD, CUT TO PHOTO SIZE | FOLD | APPLY CRAFTPAPER |
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| LAY OUT CARD (cut to photo size, usually 10" x 7") FOLD APPLY CRAFTPAPER |
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| Your paper can be fancy itself, but I used white, shiny card like the poster card you can buy in the drugstore. | I used a silver spoon
handle with a bevelled edge to lay the crease, first measuring the card into two equal halves. Use a ruler and keep the fold straight. |
Lay a smaller rectangle of rice paper upon the back of the card, at an angle illustrated both by the image above, or by the image of a card back, to the right, top.You can re-crease this after the craft paper is laid, or do the two at once. I do it twice, for neatness and "give". |
JUST ROLL THE CRAFT PAPER AND PHOTO ON, WITH PAPER GLUE.
