[Nfb-krafters-korner] Scrapbooking

[slery]

You can use archival glue (sold in the scrapbooking sections) There is also
thin archival tape. Items listed as archival are guaranteed to keep you
products from deteriating for 100 years (often longer). The card stock for
the pages is sturdy enough that you can put it in a braille writer and
braille directly on the paper (before you put anything else on it, of
course).

Cindy

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Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2016 8:41 AM
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Hi Minh,

I'm at the same place you are with scrapbooking.  I do think that it is
possible for someone with no useable vision could do scrapbooking and make
it meaningful.  However, the reality is that I just do not have time or the
resources to invest into another craft.  My random thoughts on how to
accomplish scrapbooking are:

Attach a number to the back of the photo.  This could be done with a portion
of an index card with braille, thick/dark handwriting, or a PenFriend label.
Use good quality tape to attach the label to the back of the photo so that
it can be removed when you put the photo in the scrapbook.

Get someone to describe the photo to you.  Write up a description of the
photo on paper or electronically.  Number the descriptions so that they
correspond to the number on the back of the card.

Find someone who is really into scrapbooking who can go to the store with
you to describe the endless items that can be used to decorate the scrapbook
page for the photo(s).

Find an online site that sells scrapbooking items so that you can "window
shop" independently, and make your purchases.  Once you know a specific item
that you are looking for, going to a store and getting help finding it will
work.  But if you are in the "window shopping" stage to figure out what you
want, getting a store employee to help you might be difficult.

Once you grasp the extent of all of the embellishments that are available,
you will be able to start generating a list of items that you want to use to
enhance the scrapbook page for each photo.

When you create your scrapbook page, you could add a large print or braille
description along with the embellishments, or on the back of the page.  I
think you can even purchase some type of digital recording devices to stick
on the page.  I do not know anything about these.  You could even use a
PenFriend label to describe each page.  Just make sure you back up the
PenFriend to the computer.  You would not want to lose all of the work to a
power failure.  Keep in mind that the PenFriend labels are specific to your
PenFriend device.  If you are making the scrapbook for someone else, the
PenFriend is not an option.

Attaching items to the pages of the scrapbook can be done in a number of
ways including double sided tape, some type of sticky dots, and glue sticks.
I would avoid traditional glue or paste.

I'm wondering if there is any type of problem when storing the scrapbook
when the pages are made tactile.

So there you have it, my brain dump on a topic I know very little about.

HTH,
Annette


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Sent: Monday, January 25, 2016 11:35 PM
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Cc: minh ha
Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Scrapbooking

Hello all,

I'm curious if anyone here does scrapbooking? I'm purchasing cardstock and
hole punches for a braille card fundraiser project, and all the scrapbooking
supplies has peaked my interest. It has always struck me as an extremely
visual craft since the main purpose is to capture special photographs in an
artsy album, but I do see that there are ways to make it more tactual with
stickers and ribbons and stuff like that. Curious to see what people think.

Minh



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Minh Ha
Boston College | Lynch School of Education '16 minh.ha927 at gmail.com

"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty
recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity:
but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their
dreams with open eyes, to make them possible." T. E. Lawrence

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