Photo Crafts

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Designer Vivian Peritts demonstrated both of these items on a Carol Duvall Show I watched last night. She cuts up photographs that are otherwise unusable and makes mosaic items with them. This is one of those boxy plastic picture frames you can buy anywhere. She masked off where the photograph goes, then painted the box with black acrylic paint. Then she sponged on a sand colored paint. She glued the photograph mosaic pieces down - and the background looks like grout. (It wasn't the cute picture of the snoozing puppy that got my attention. Not totally, anyway.)

For this project she enlarged a photograph of pansies, cut it half lengthwise and fed each half through her shredder. Then she wove this sheet, using the strips randomly. She added an adhesive backing to it and covered a journal cover with it. (She used a hand-cranked shredder. I wonder if it is designed just for crafts because my regular shredder leaves a bit of a jagged edge.)

You know how I loves teeny-tiny.

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