A "How To" by Amy Walton
Ok, gather around everyone and I will unfold the mystery of the white on black journaling. The truth is you don't "print" white at all; That's impossible on most printers. Really, you're just printing out a whole lot of black on white paper and just leaving the words white. What a let down, I know, because in order to pull this off you have to have a really good printer and be willing to use a lot of ink. When I use this technique on large sections (ie. the last three layouts posted), I use my printer at work. It's a big fancy 'kinkos-style' Canon color printer. But, I also do it on my cheap, little, came-with-my-computer printer at home. I just do smaller sections like the brown tag on my Queen Elizabeth Park post.
If you're using word to try this out, draw a text box to your desired dimensions (that's in the drawing toolbar). Color the words white and fill the box with whatever color you want. If you need more colored space around the text, draw an additional box around the whole thing and make sure it goes behind your journaling. Because the color on your screen isn't always the color that comes out of your printer, I print out a series of swatches by drawing little boxes and filling them with various shades of that color to help me find the one that's going to match the paper I'm using.
Ink cartridges and Bazzill paper are my fundamental scrapbook supplies. Now, if they actually came out with an affordable printer that did that white embossed writing on black cardstock, I'd be all over that, but this works pretty well too.
Ok, gather around everyone and I will unfold the mystery of the white on black journaling. The truth is you don't "print" white at all; That's impossible on most printers. Really, you're just printing out a whole lot of black on white paper and just leaving the words white. What a let down, I know, because in order to pull this off you have to have a really good printer and be willing to use a lot of ink. When I use this technique on large sections (ie. the last three layouts posted), I use my printer at work. It's a big fancy 'kinkos-style' Canon color printer. But, I also do it on my cheap, little, came-with-my-computer printer at home. I just do smaller sections like the brown tag on my Queen Elizabeth Park post.
If you're using word to try this out, draw a text box to your desired dimensions (that's in the drawing toolbar). Color the words white and fill the box with whatever color you want. If you need more colored space around the text, draw an additional box around the whole thing and make sure it goes behind your journaling. Because the color on your screen isn't always the color that comes out of your printer, I print out a series of swatches by drawing little boxes and filling them with various shades of that color to help me find the one that's going to match the paper I'm using.
Ink cartridges and Bazzill paper are my fundamental scrapbook supplies. Now, if they actually came out with an affordable printer that did that white embossed writing on black cardstock, I'd be all over that, but this works pretty well too.
4 comments:
Thank you, Thank you. I thought that might be the only way to do it but was hoping for a way that didn't use so much ink. Thanks for parting with you secret.
Ok, that is kind of a sneaky secret. I could have figured that out - just figured NO ONE would be crazy enough to use that much ink. So in a way you are a little sneaky to use the super printer...what about us little people with our $69.00 hp printers. Thanks Amy. You're the best! Doubt I'll ever do it, but at least now I know how!
Amy -- time for some new pages! Let's see them.
Used this idea today - worked great. Thanks again.
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