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Creative Printer Piecing Visit DIY's Craft Lab to learn how to make a patterned picture. From "Craft Lab" episode DCLB-159

Guest Pamela Smart joins host Jennifer Perkins and prints two photos; one at full color and another at 50% less saturation. These pictures are sliced into strips and woven to make an interesting patterned picture. This same idea is also applied by cutting a photo at the horizon so the background has a lower saturation level than the foreground.

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	Guest Pamela Smart takes photos and cuts them into strips to weave into interesting patterns, as seen here.
	Figure A
	Figure B

Creative Printer Piecing

Project designed by Pamela Smart.

Materials:

inkjet photo paper
inkjet printer
glue stick or other paper adhesive

1. To create a black and white weave, print a black and white image at full saturation and then print another copy 50% lighter (figure A) — lower saturation or increase the transparency of the image.

2. Place a piece of masking tape on the top edge of one print. This will help you keep the strips together when you weave them.

3. With a craft knife or paper trimmer, cut the taped print into 1" vertical strips taking care not to cut the taped edge. (Stop the blade when it reaches the tape.)

4. For the second strip, place the tape on the left side and cut the print horizontally. Again, do not cut the taped edge.

5. Using the traditional over/under weaving method, weave the strips of the two prints together. Secure by taping the backside (figure B) or adhering the woven image to a sheet of card stock.

6. For multi-colored image, print your image in full color, print it again in a contrasting mode such as blue tone, black and white, or sepia tone.

7. Cut out the "focal point" of the full color image and adhere it over its matching section on the contrasting print. The result of this overlay is that the focal point of the image will appear much closer, nearly dimensional.

8. The variations on this type of multiple color imaging would be tonal studies. Tonal studies is printing the same image in various levels of blue tone, lay all copies on top of each other and cut into strips. Reassemble the photo by mixing the dark/mid/light strips in various ways to create an artistic arrangement. The same could be done with color, black and white, or sepia printed images.

RESOURCES :

Double Tack Paper
Grafix
Website: www.grafixarts.com

Hewlett Packard Printers
Website: www.hp.com

Perfect Printing Pouch
Website: www.scraperfect.com

Clip Art
The Vintage Workshop
Website: www.thevintageworkshop.com

Hermera Technologies
Website: www.hemera.com

GUESTS :

Pamela Smart
E-mail: pcsmart@gmail.com
Website: http://pcsmart.typepad.com/sandbox_serendipity/