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I’m working on my first scrapbook and don’t know how to use Polaroids in it.
October 18th, 2006
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Full question:
I’m working on my first scrapbook right now. It’s going to be a Christmas gift for my parents this year. I went to a scarpbook party at work the other day and managed to get my first two pages done, or mostly done. I may decide to add something else later on. I decided to call it a night after getting stuck on my third page.
I have this Polaroid picture I’m trying to include with a few others. The problem is, the Polaroid looks extremely out of place next to the 3 1/2 by 5 pics. I know our wonderful scrapbooking instructor gave me a few ideas on how to rectify the problem, but basically told me to look around and see if I could find something I liked from a picture. She’d also suggested putting it on its own page (not sure if I like that idea too much right now) or putting some kind of borders around it to cover up the edges. I checked out a few mags today and didn’t see anything in there. I think we may have a few books at work that might be worth looking at.
I don’t really have much in the way of supplies just yet. I have some papers, mat stacks, adhesives, and of course my pictures. Since I work at a craft store and we’re resetting the scrapbooking dept. in a few weeks, I’m waiting to see if I can’t find something I like better than what we have now once that is complete (and, ahem, goes on sale).
Anybody have any ideas on what I might be able to try doing for this? Also, is there any way I can trim a Polaroid pic without damaging the picture? I have some from two different cameras I’m considering using and the material they’re printed on seems different between the two cameras.
My answer:
Good morning!
I’m sure that Polaroid DOES look out of place! They have always had those wide margins, heavy thickness and “different” glossiness from other pictures.
If this were me, I’d take that Polaroid to a copy shop (if you don’t have a color copier at home), and make a copy of it - either on plain paper, or photo paper. Then cut it to look like your other pictures on the page. You can’t really cut the actual picture without ruining it.
As far as mixing the two materials used by different cameras, I have done that on a page and it looks “ok”, but color copying fixes so many of these types of oddities. Since you’ll pay by the “page, you may want to put several pictures on an 8.5 x 11 piece of paper and get one copy with all of them, that you can then cut apart. Attach the pictures to the paper by rolling a piece of tape, sticky-side out, into a band and pressing to the back of the photo. Then press the photo to the paper. These are easy to remove once your copy is done, and doesn’t hurt the photo.
Let us know how this turns out for you.
Your Frugal Decorating Diva,
Nancy
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