1. RePhoto Class
With Linda Gabrielson
November 3, 2011
Linda Gabrielson showed us how to take old photos that are no longer needed and turn them into
new avant-garde greeting cards. You know the photos I’m talking about…..the ones that are of
unknown persons and places that somehow showed up when you developed your film. Combine the
old photos, those “free” greeting cards that arrive in the mail (the ones soliciting your contributions to
their cause), an ink pad and ink stamp, and a bit of ingenuity and you can make beautiful new
greeting cards that you will be proud to send to friends and family. Follow the steps below.
1. Group old photos by color. It is easier to do this if you lay them out and then step several feet
back and glance over them. Sort blues from greens, from browns, etc.
2. Get a pad of StazOn Ink and an ink stamp from the craft store and then stamp the photos with
the ink. You want the ink stamp to obstruct the background picture so that you only see
pleasant color in the background.
3. Also purchase Keep a Memory Mounting Adhesive sheets at the craft store .
4. Cut a square of mounting adhesive that is ¼ to ½ inch smaller than the face of the free card.
This adhesive is just like a big piece of double sided tape. Peel one side of the adhesive sheet
and lay it on the table with sticky side up. Now we will apply the photos.
5. Pick up a photo that has been stamped with StazOn ink and disregarding the people or things
in the photos (looking only for pleasant colors peeking through) lay a portion of the photo on
top of the adhesive. Then take another photo and lay it on another section of the adhesive
leaving about 1/8” between photo pieces. What you will have is different shapes and angles of
photos that are stuck to the adhesive square. Trim away any edges of the photos that extend
beyond the square of the adhesive.
6. Once you have trimmed the photo, you will then peel away the other side square to reveal the
sticky tape and center the photo collage on to greeting card.
7. You will still have sticky seams between photos pieces…..to fill these in, sprinkle embossing
powder over the sticky and shake off access. Select an embossing powder that compliments
your colors on the card. Then using an embossing heating gun you will heat up the seams to
seal the powder…..try NOT to heat up the photos too much because they will curl out of
shape. Look at diagram below to get a better understanding of these steps.

2. Free/or inexpensive
Greeting Card – keep the
envelope.
Cut adhesive square Example – if card is 6”
½ inch smaller than the wide and 4” tall cut the
card all the way round. adhesive square 5x3.
Trim off the excess photo that is hanging off of the
square of the adhesive. Once trimmed, flip it over
and apply the collage sticky side down centering it
onto the face of the card. Use the embossing
powder to fill in between the photos and heat seal.