Photo Tray

I’ve been a crafting fool the last couple of weeks.  My friend Amy’s mom sent me some great fabrics from her online quilting store so I’ve been a bit on a sewing binge until my machine started causing me some trouble!  It’s fixed now so I hope to get back on the sewing projects but I thought I’d share with you another photo project I was working on as well.

Remember how I told you about the last project (Record Clock) where it was easier than I thought it’d be?  Well, this project lays (lies?…Mom’s always on me for not using this word correctly…I never can remember the rules), as most of my projects do, solidly in the “That’ll be a piece o’ cake!” and hours later….I’m swearing “Krauss!”  It shouldn’t be hard.  I was just wrestling with my printer…grrr.  ANYWAY, the project is this – Lora found me this super cool tray and our favorite boutique (aka Value Village). 

I wanted to take one of my photos and glue it to the bottom.  I’m trying to add a bit more color to my life so I picked a photo with a lot of blue.  It’s the bottom of a small boat that I took while living in Ireland.  I love the rusty stain and the crackley paint.

I found this free software that takes a photo and chops it up for you so you can print it out on your printer.  It’s called PosteRazor.  It’s pretty cool and easy.  My problems came when I wanted to print it on thick paper and my printer refused.  It also printed different colors for each piece and much darker than the actual photo (which I don’t know if that is a printer issue, software issue or a monitor issue) so that it doesn’t go very seamlessly together.  So I haven’t glued it down ’cause I’m not a 100% satisfied.  I might try printing it as one poster at somewhere like Kinkos but I don’t know.  What do you think?  Like it or try again?

Meanwhile, the tray looks kind of cool as is under my candles on my table…