and now Im going to show you a system called the coluzzle last promised and its just
a fun tool to use in cutting pictures up, helping assist in making your mattes, its
just a lot of fun things to do, and Im going to demonstrate one of the fun things
to with it. In the coluzzle system you will have a foam mat, and you have to work them
out or youre going to cut holes all in your tables. You have different stencils,
weve got round, ovals, squares, rectangles, they have alphabet and this other one I have
its like file folder tags that you would cut out and then fold them in half. The most important
tool of this is the blade and its hard to tell but right here is a real sharp blade
and it swivels around, so as youre moving this blade around you dont have to lift
it anywhere out of the track.
To demonstrate this, I have a picture here and Im going
to use the round and Im going to focus this girls face right in the center and Im
going to choose which of these I want and I can cut them all, I can choose I want the
biggest part of her. Then what I would do is take my card stock complementary color
and then cut it one ring bigger and then I. Have a perfect circle mat, so you can use
all of these for your matting system. Im going to just cut her out over and over and
over and make spirals, so you stick the swivel blade into the glue and youll go around
and you never lift your wrist up, slip the blade again and then Ill come into the
next area and you just go around and around.
Sometimes if youre working with a lot of,
a big piece itll be a good idea to take your picture to the stencil. Usually I just
slide the glade around to the next groove and come into the next one. Theres little
spots you have to jump over because you dont want your picture totally falling apart when
you lift it up and thats about how far out I can go. When I lift this up, youll
see all these little things right here and then what youre going to do is youre
going to get your scissors and youre going to cut all these little connecting spots apart
and then youll have just your ring.
To show you as a sample, well heres one coluzzle
we cut in circles and then I just pop them each one out and layered them till we come
down to a good focal point. Another one we took one of the rings out plus the outside,
same here we took every other ring out, we used all the scraps from all these just to
create a geometric design that if you just want to fill up some space on a page. Heres
one I took rings out but I used the background and kind of gave it some dimension, if you
wanted you could even twist these and make the background where theyre not all lining
up, look how much fun that can be..
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