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Specialty Paper
Instructions
  1. First, select a focal photo (the one you want to highlight) and enlarge it at picture kiosk or on your personal computer.
  2. Mount the focal photo on white cardstock.
  3. Matte the focal photo on a piece of black mulberry specialty paper leaving more than an inch border around the entire photo.
  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.
  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.
  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.
  7. Crop three photos into the same size and mount them on a strip of black paper.
  8. Then mount that horizontal strip onto a piece of white cardstock. Adhere this strip to the 12x12 blue cardstock.
  9. Print a title using your computer fonts or your own handwriting.
  10. Mount the white title onto black cardstock.
  11. Punch to black eyelets at the bottom of title.
  12. Cut out brown cardstock into the shape of a bone.
  13. Use brown chalk and chalk along the edge of the bone to give the cut-out some texture.
  14. Wrap embroidery floss around the bone and attach the bone to the title through the eyelets.



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