I WANNA MAKE GIFTS by Clea Hantman & Azadeh Houshyar

Author:Clea Hantman & Azadeh Houshyar
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ALADDIN PAPERBACKS
Published: 2006-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

Tracing paper

Permanent black marker

Plain white paper

Stapler

The How-To

If you’re among the lucky who are naturally good drawers, throw that tracing paper away and just start sketching simple black-and-white line drawings. But if you’re like me and you can’t really draw all that well on your own, pick up the tracing paper. There is no shame in tracing!

The topic will depend entirely on who the gift is for. If the pal loves horses, trace or draw pictures of horses. If your friend worships emo bands, start drawing or tracing pictures of her favorites! Shoes? No sweat—make a shoe coloring book. Whatever the subject matter—fashion, soccer greats, Prince William—find pictures online or in magazines and just trace over them with clean, black lines. You can add text to the bottom to tell a story, or you could provide captions for each picture, or you could just leave them blank. Don’t forget to make a cover, too, perhaps incorporating your pal’s name into the title of the book.

Take your tracing paper or original drawings to a copy shop and photocopy them on to your blank paper. If you’re copying tracing paper, place a piece of white paper behind the tracing paper on the bed of the copy machine so you get a bright white backdrop to your coloring pages. You could even copy these drawings on to newsprint for that old-school, little-kid-coloring-book feel. Copy the front cover of your book on to cardstock and do the same for the back cover.

Put the pages in order, add the covers and staple. Do so by adding three staples in the left margin on your book: one at the top, one centered, and one at the bottom.

This is a great gift idea if you need to make multiple presents, because you could effortlessly make two or more copies of the coloring pages while you’re at the copy shop.

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