SILVER PAPER PICTURES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 14 May 1938, Page 11

SILVER PAPER PICTURES

INTERESTING WORK FOR THE CHILDREN This week we are telling you how to make silver paper pictures. It is great fun, and you will be able to fashion all kinds of useful Jitle articles—teapot stands, table mats, and so on, as well as

.dainty decorations for the wall. There' are many different varieties of patterned silver paper nowad. ;*3, and you will enjoy making a good collection before you start work. Get your friends to help! THE "TOOLS” NEEDED Besides the silver paper you will need some good clear adhesive, a pair

of small scissors, small pieces of glass the size the finished decorations ai-e to be, some sheets of coloured mounting paper, and a roll of gum strip for the passe partout binding. Let me describe the method of working, and you will see how beautifully easy it all is. Take your chosen design—we will suppose you are going to make a teapot stand about six inches

square, trimmed with a quaint little crinoline lady. Draw the pattern—you can trace one from a book if you like—and lay it flat on the table. Put the sheet of glass on top—you will see the design clearly through this —and then cut out the various shapes from the different kinds of silver paper. Cover the fronts of the pieces very sparingly with paste, place them on the glass, each piece corresponding with the traced drawing underneath, and press them down with a soft clean cloth. Cut a backing exactly the size of the glass, from coloured mounting paper, royal blue, emerald, orange, or whichever colour you fancy—lay this over the glass, and then bind all the edges with gumstrip, as though binding with picture passe partout. Two suggestions for the teapot stands are shown in the picture. The first is the little crinoline lady, and the second an attractive conventional design of two flowers and butterflies, which would look well with a black background. MAKE SOME ASH TRAYS! Perhaps you would like to make pretty little ash trays and pin trays out of ordinary small glass dishes? Cover thj outsides with fragments of silver paper, pasted on in patchwork fashion, so that all the glass is hidden, and then coat them over the backs of the papers with coloured enamel. The idea suggests a splendid way of making use of any tiny bits of foil lef'. over from bigger pieces of work, and when patchworked together like this they'll look like lovely gleaming enamel work. Next week, our lesson is a knitted bonnet for a doll, and the week after that a brimmed sports hat for a girl.