Scrapbooked Poems

[ysabetwordsmith]

For those of you wondering what my scrapbooked poetry looks like, here are a few samples.  (Someone tipped me to this page of holiday art pimpage.)  I do these as gifts and for sale, sometimes also as contest prizes. Each page is unique.  Some of the pictures aren't perfect but you should be able to get an idea of what I'm doing.  These papercrafts usually cost $5-10 per page, depending on how expensive the materials are and how long they take to make.
 

This is "Autumn's Daughter" printed on white paper, overlain with translucent parchment paper cut away to show the text.  This would be a $10 piece because of the fancy (and thus expensive) gilded parchment paper and the finicky cutting.  Making a hole without destroying the paper is a challenge, but it looks cool when finished.



This is "Chance Process" printed on yellow paper, overlain onto a starry background.  This would be a typical $5 piece, two layers of fairly ordinary paper.

Comments

[valdary.livejournal.com]

too big a file to open at mo, taking 10 mins to get tiny stripe across of pic

Yes...

[ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com]

... that's not what I was trying to do, and I don't know how to fix it. I wanted small images. They look small, but they're loading like they're still huge. Alas, I'm not much of a computer wizard. Sorry for the hassle.

Re: Yes...

[valdary.livejournal.com]

I usually run mine through GIMP

I open the file, right click inside image, select scale image, make sure aspect ratio is linked, and alter longest side to 800 pixels. If you don't usually play with computer images you'll probably find Ellen's method easier, but GIMP is a free download