"foofakes" / "counterfoofs" ?

[Flo]

These are mentioned in the library on UKS - to me they look like pretend sheets of postage stamps - I tried googling both the words above, but both terms link back to UKS and only UKS (and only to the library entries I've already seen)

Can any old hands shed any light on this one for me? puzzled....!

Here are the 2 library articles:

http://www.ukscrappers.co.uk/index.p...=277&Itemid=32

and

http://www.ukscrappers.co.uk/index.p...=265&Itemid=32

[AliTS]

Can't help you much, but I seem to remember Laura (lalheg) had a rubber stamp she bought recently which did much the same thing - maybe there is another word for it that will help your search?

[annadomini]

I think they are/were made by Foofala if that helps. I'm sure I have some somewhere.

[AliTS]

Just seen on the site that they are called foofabets as in:

http://www.foofala.com/images2/foofabetsRed01.JPG

You've got me interested now!

[annadomini]

Have just found mine. They're not adhesive, perforated or anything fancy... simply printed on to thin card.

[Diz]

we have these on our website girls..they are fun....

[Flo]

but what would you do with them? other than cut them out and stick them down? in which case why put in the dotted lines in the first place? told you I was confused!

[mystydog]

You would mask off the squares and stamp or decorate in them to make faux or fake postage stamps.

I've seen a template somewhere with the dots that you can print off.

You can also make great faux stamps by using your sewing machine without thread to make the perforations.

Sue

[Flo]

I've got a tracing wheel which would presumably have the same effect... guess I still don't really see the point though LOL although I did see some "faux postage" on a stamping website which did look luvverly

[Flo]

LOL snap!! that was where I saw it!

[mystydog]

Here you are, template plus instructions.

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/re...auxpostage.php

Sue

[Kermit]

Here you are, template plus instructions.

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/re...auxpostage.php

Sue

Does anyone know what that matting ruler is? Where can I get one? It would save me so much time measuring my mats!

[Galaxy Girl]

Would it be a cthru one, DH got mine for me from Clarity Stamps in Kent last year for xmas.

Mary Anne did a layout with letters very similar to this about Blackberries about two issues ago. I vaguely remember that she did it with wordart and text boxes - then she inked them in a scrummy blackberry colour - maybe it will be in her gallery, so someone can shed some light on which mag/issue it was.

Kym

[angela72]

Does anyone know what that matting ruler is? Where can I get one? It would save me so much time measuring my mats!

Is that the Omnigrid ruler? I used those in my patchwork and quilting days with a cutting mat and cutting wheel. I would say try fabric shops.

A really good matting ruler is the Perfect Layers set - which I believe is only available from QVC in the USA but I got mine off ebay Basically it is 2 plastic "rulers" which have grooves in at different measurements so if you want 1/4" mat you line the paper up in that groove and cut away. If you go to QVC.com and then put in item no: F0137 you can see what I mean.

[MaryAnne]

Here's the history of the foofabets

After the Foofala printed letter sheets came out, some enterprising 2P-er created the foofabets/foo-fakes so you could simply print them off at home

She sent them to me, I added them to the library. The advantage is that you can then print them onto any card or paper you like. Or, as I did in the SI layout, alter them just as you would the Foofala ones.

The font is, I think, a bit different to the Foofala originals but they are close.

The problems with the ones in the library are that the grid of dots is not around the individual letter, so if you print out the whole thing then cut yoou either need to cut thru the middle of the line of dots or print the whole sheet multiple times.

I use them in one of two ways.

1. I drag the whole image into my paint program (Apple Works) then select the letters I want and drag THEM into a drawing document and print on whatever paper I please.

OR

2. Using an old typewriter font, to get thoose slightlly grungy and erroded dots, I create a grid of horizontal and vertical lines of dots in my drawing program then add the letters to the center -- this means I can make the grid any size I want. I have a set of fonts in my font manager that is called FooFonts so I can find the ones that I've already determined look good in this style.

I like the flexability creating my own gives me, rather than the limited size and paper of the bought ones, but it IS slightly labour intensive

HTH