How to mount a photo onto a Classic Card
You will find a standard 4 x 6 inch photo from your local lab/photo kiosk to be a little too long for our Classic Blank Card. About 1cm (10mm) will need to be trimmed off the photos length for it to fit.
This can be easily done with a metal ruler and craft knife, or you could even use a guillotine or slide cutter to trim the photo down.
I've found using a slide cutter (a good one with a sharp blade, that makes a clean cut) is faster than the craft knife/ruler combo, especially if you have allot of photos to get through.
Another option is to reduce the size of the photo by half (fitting two photos onto a single 4 x 6 print) then cutting the print in half.
This method will allow you to print / draw a boarder, and you’ll even have some space to write a description / byline & even © copyright.
To the right is an example of a card put together this way. (the photo of this Quokka was taken early one morning on Rottnest Island, off the coast of Perth, WA).
The best method to attached the photos (or other printed material) is to use "photo squares" rather than glue.
They are used for mounting photos in 'dry mount' photo albums (like the greatly imitated "Henzo" brand photo albums). These photo squares are little acid free, double sided stickers that come on a roll of 250 stickers for around $6.
You could even use "photo corners", which are little triangular pockets that have a sticky back - you stick 4 of them down (one for each corner of the photo) and the photo’s corners slip into them. I've found the photo squares are a more secure way of mounting photos, as they can slip out of the photo corners, however the corners do add a certain charm to the over all look of the finished card.
Also, when ordering your photos for this exercise, have them printed on Matte paper instead of the standard Gloss, as the Matt photos will resist finger prints.
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