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Overlapping Prints Learn how to create an overlapping photographic effect. From "Craft Lab" episode DCLB-159

Guest Pamela Smart visit DIY's Craft Lab to create an overlapping photo effect by using cut-out silhouettes and shapes to mask a printed page. After a couple of times through the printer, the image created shows an example of layers. Also learn how printing on both sides of a translucent sheet of vellum creates one image superimposed on another.

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Guest Pamela Smart demonstrates how to create an overlapping effect for your one-of-a-kind pictures.

Overlapping Prints

Project designed by Pamela Smart.

white card stock
stickers or die cut images
repositional adhesive glue stick
ink jet printer

By reinserting the same piece of paper into the printer and adding different colored shapes, you get secondary and tertiary color combinations with the printer ink. By laying stickers or die cut shapes on the page, you will create silhouettes when they are removed. These printouts make great cards, patterns for scrap pages or backgrounds for other projects.

1. In your favorite graphics program, open a blank page. Select a light color and draw a series of random circles, print that image.

Figure A

2. Place some die cut shapes or stickers on the page, use a repositionable adhesive (glue stick) so that you will be able to remove them later. (Be sure all the edges are adhered securely so you don't get any pieces caught in the printer's feed mechanism.)

3. Going back to your program, delete the light circles and draw a few more circles in a darker or contrasting color. Reinsert your printed paper (with the shapes adhered) and print the image of the second set of circles.

4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 with one more set of different colored circles.

5. Remove your stickers/shapes to reveal the silhouetted shaped underneath (figure A).

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/