Leftovers

Today I finished up my prints for the "Leftovers" print exchange. The whole idea behind the project name is to use up small leftover papers from previous projects. Well as you know I am all about using leftovers. Above photo is were I left off yesterday after carving the flower design and printing it with acrylic on Joss papers...today was a lot of trial and error.

My idea was to mount these on black paper. I cut out these two and it looked great with this handmade red paper with gold leaf design. On the side is a piece of red acetate that Vicki gave me on Sat.

Well those plans fell apart as I could find no more solid black paper. I did find four sheets of this scrapbook paper (leftover from my daughters scrap booking days) with words printed on it. This would work. But the design on the red paper was now too much. So I decided to go with just the red acetate.

I was going to use my handy xacto paper cutter but it wouldn't cut through 4 sheets of paper at a
time...

so I used my scissors...

I wanted to use spray mount for a perfectly flat adhesion but the pieces were so small I could forsee problems with that. I remembered a technique from a book making workshop I attended using white glue and a piece of cardboard and laying a smooth coat of glue over the entire back. Well this didn't seem to work too well...

Plan C was to try this little doohicky and it worked quite well.

The finished set.
Not the best photo as the gold and silver leaf reflected the flash and my scanner is not working...oh well they do look better in person.