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Post by centaurofattn on Feb 9, 2016 15:47:16 GMT -5
If anyone wants help making "old-looking" stuff, it's basically my only style of art haha. Either I can do a tutorial or find some great resources to share if interested. Check out my work on my blog: stevejenks.blogspot.com/Mostly cards and tags, but I love aging photos and other documents.
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Post by charlesdegrey on Feb 9, 2016 16:15:46 GMT -5
This is really great looking stuff! As a general interest, I'd say I would love to see some tutorials of any particular projects you feel like sharing...
For the case specifically, I'm not to that stage yet, but I'm sure questions will be forthcoming!
Edit: Actually I do have a question, I've looked at that Vintage Photo ink from Distress that you mentioned, and I was wondering how to use the ink pad to age the paper.
Specifically applying the ink to the paper, and also the order you put it on versus writing ink and the cookie sheet method you mentioned.
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Post by troyo on Feb 12, 2016 14:09:13 GMT -5
Helen, I totally intend to make supplies or even kits available, once I figure out the how's and whatnot's, LOL.
I am currently playing with Ticker-tape. I ended up with 11x17 since I figure most people can come up with a cheap source for a page or two and it seems long enough for a wrap around cipher. I also decided to use it two ways... one as a handwritten scytale cipher by wrapping around an object and as a coded message in the "ticker" itself. Here is take one on the ticker. This was printed on a laser (Inkjet would actually be better, I think... more "blur" in the ink.) and cut out with scissors. Then the ends were "torn" on the edge of a hacksaw to make it look like it was ripped from a spool, it was rolled up in to a cylinder and the ends sanded a little to get rid of the "scissor cut" look. It was then dunked in this mornings coffee (with French Vanilla creamer. ;-) and is still slightly damp here. I will probably sand it when dry, the print is still a little too even.
Sooo... who can break the Ticker-code? (I want to check it for ease of recognition and crackability... fine line between too easy and too hard.)
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Post by charlesdegrey on Feb 13, 2016 18:21:50 GMT -5
well, from my codebreaking attempts, it's not a rail-fence cipher. That was my first guess due to the dots.
Edit: it's also not a Caesar shift. I'll keep trying on break time and time the efforts.
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Post by centaurofattn on Feb 14, 2016 12:08:48 GMT -5
Edit: Actually I do have a question, I've looked at that Vintage Photo ink from Distress that you mentioned, and I was wondering how to use the ink pad to age the paper. Specifically applying the ink to the paper, and also the order you put it on versus writing ink and the cookie sheet method you mentioned. You use an applicator tool (or probably a make up wedge or something would work) and you just go to town with it. I use circular motions to get a nice blended coverage. There are a few things you could do as far as the order goes. I would suggest doing all of the writing first, that way anything you do after that would affect the writing too (an aged letter vs a letter written on aged paper). If you pop it in the oven, the whole sheet will darken a little. Then, whether you used the baking method or not, you can use vintage photo on the edges to create an aged look (which is most often what I do). I found a video that shows that part a little bit (it should start in the middle at the important part): A note on the video, you don't need the fancy craft sheet, you can use newspaper under your work.
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Post by Daninola on Apr 12, 2016 13:24:46 GMT -5
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Post by amanda on Apr 13, 2016 19:30:22 GMT -5
Helen, I totally intend to make supplies or even kits available, once I figure out the how's and whatnot's, LOL.
I am currently playing with Ticker-tape. I ended up with 11x17 since I figure most people can come up with a cheap source for a page or two and it seems long enough for a wrap around cipher. I also decided to use it two ways... one as a handwritten scytale cipher by wrapping around an object and as a coded message in the "ticker" itself. Here is take one on the ticker. This was printed on a laser (Inkjet would actually be better, I think... more "blur" in the ink.) and cut out with scissors. Then the ends were "torn" on the edge of a hacksaw to make it look like it was ripped from a spool, it was rolled up in to a cylinder and the ends sanded a little to get rid of the "scissor cut" look. It was then dunked in this mornings coffee (with French Vanilla creamer. ;-) and is still slightly damp here. I will probably sand it when dry, the print is still a little too even.
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Sooo... who can break the Ticker-code? (I want to check it for ease of recognition and crackability... fine line between too easy and too hard.) I love this idea!! Are you still working on it? I could get one message out of the ticker tape fairly straightforwardly. If there is another as well, I'd need to look at it some more.
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Post by edwardm on May 25, 2016 10:54:49 GMT -5
Sooo... who can break the Ticker-code? (I want to check it for ease of recognition and crackability... fine line between too easy and too hard.) Knowing it was a puzzle to solve it was pretty easy. Not sure if I would have know it was a code to crack if it was just in a pile of other papers although the * and ? symbols do catch your attention since those are not in stock symbols.
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