In this case, I was dealing with an heirloom photo that had the lower left corner torn off of it. This presented two problems. First, was the simple issue of mounting the photo. Since it was an heirloom, I did NOT want to use adhesive of any kind directly on it, but the missing corner made it difficult to simply use the transparent corner mounts I often used. Second, I wanted to draw attention to the picture, not the damage it had sustained.
As you can see, I started with a mat with scalloped edges. This helped draw attention to the photo itself. When the eye starts to move to the edge of the photo, it is drawn to the scalloped mat and away from the damaged corner.
Next, I made some over-sized photo corners from the same cardstock as the mat (so undo attention wouldn't be drawn to them) and used them to hold the photo on three corners. The larger size helped give the stability needed to hold the photo in place with just three corners. I then glued a forth oversize corner where the 4th one would naturally be. Though the corner doesn't completely hide the damage (because going too large with the corners would have hidden too much of the information on the bottom of the photo), it DOES help make the missing piece less noticeable.
Finally, I added pen work around the scalloped mat, and the scalloped edges of the photo corners. Notice how, when you DO look at the damaged photo corner, the pen work draws your eye away.
3 tricks that you may find handy some time.
2 comments:
Love your cover up. In fact I didn't even notice it and I looked at the page for 5 minutes!
A great cover-up! I didn't see it til I read the post!
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