Tuesday, November 22, 2022

Using a Brother Scan and Cut to make cheap mats for Polaroid photos




 I bought a Brother Scan and Cut SD 125 months ago to cut vinyl and make stickers. It has served me well in the 6 months of using it. One day I was looking for pre-matted 8x10 mats for Polaroid photos, and could not find them. I saw online that Professional service charges a lot of money to have them done. So I came up with the idea using the Brother software that came with the cutter to make a perfect Polaroid square using 60-pound cardstock. You have to max out the settings and slow the cutter down, and possibly recut 3 times which takes less than 20 seconds, the results are impressive. I used photo corners to bring them together and pre-adhesive tape to make a mat hinge, it's not beveled but does its job looking better. just mounting it on a white background, almost gives a semi-drop box look to it.

Wednesday, November 9, 2022

Shooting Polaroids again!


After a call from my dad, A cache of my polaroids from my SX70, Spectra, and Onestep were found in an air-tight plastic box. Over 2000 polaroids were taken from the time of 1988-2004. I will showcase some with the story behind each picture. Hopefully someone is reading this blog.