Well...this was taught to me many moons ago by a craft lady and there weren't any written instructions. However, you're not the first to ask me this and some years ago I developed a half Powerpoint, half multimedia thing to give to a lady at a senior center because she thought it would be a nice craft for them to learn. I'll dig it out of my harddrive and see if it can be modified to a straight PP presentation.
Now, if I was more tech savvy and (frankly) less lazy I could do a YouTube presentation but that's probably not going to happen anytime soon.
And therein lies yet another tale of woe. I couldn't find the instructions on the current computer which means it one of the files that's still on the old harddrive which I haven't transferred over yet. Lo! My laziness is mighty.
Well, the laziness quotient is even worse than that. The files aren't even obsolete. It's just a question of hooking up the connector thingie between computers and transferring them over. It's just that my sloth knows no bounds.
I was getting at the fact, though, that while they are not obsolete now, protracted laziness might make them so. Then woe the effort required to convert them, etc. :P
Here is A version, but it's not the way I do it. Mine is both simpler and more complex. It doesn't show you how to make the bottom box that fits inside the top or how to center images when not using plain paper. That involves a ruler and strategizing. Basically, whatever image you want on top of the box has to be in the center of the paper and you have to carefully measure and cut around to make that so. (Alas, not possible with images on the periphery of the paper.) However, to make the bottom of the box you need a square of paper (card stock is ideal folding material) that is one quarter of an inch smaller than the top piece of paper all the way around.
Oh, sort of like a printer's cap. I learned how to make those in journalism school. We aspiring reporters had no need to know how to turn a page from a newspaper into a hat to protect your hair from the ink haze of a rotary press, it was just tradition ... a half-century ago.
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Date: 2022-01-18 11:30 pm (UTC)Now, if I was more tech savvy and (frankly) less lazy I could do a YouTube presentation but that's probably not going to happen anytime soon.
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Date: 2022-01-23 07:10 am (UTC)Laziness for the win!
I was getting at the fact, though, that while they are not obsolete now, protracted laziness might make them so. Then woe the effort required to convert them, etc. :P
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Date: 2022-01-18 11:44 pm (UTC)Here is A version, but it's not the way I do it. Mine is both simpler and more complex. It doesn't show you how to make the bottom box that fits inside the top or how to center images when not using plain paper. That involves a ruler and strategizing. Basically, whatever image you want on top of the box has to be in the center of the paper and you have to carefully measure and cut around to make that so. (Alas, not possible with images on the periphery of the paper.) However, to make the bottom of the box you need a square of paper (card stock is ideal folding material) that is one quarter of an inch smaller than the top piece of paper all the way around.
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