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Your sheet of paper
Your fi rst handmade sheet of paper
can be so exciting!
Now what to do with it? First, before
you do anything with it at all—scan it.
At a high resolution. Now you have
a digital fi le of your paper that you
can use over and over again. If you
want to collage with this piece, you
can tear it up but still have the digital
image available for something like,
say, a wine label.
In this Marletta wine label example,
I scanned the handmade paper with
a sheet of black paper over the back
of it so the feather edge showed
up beautifully. If the back of your
scanner lid is white (mine is), you
know that when you scan white
pieces, ...