Slide mount are little (2"x2") plastic or paper square frames with a little rectangle window in the center. Slide mounts are just the right size to frame a few words, a mini sticker or a very small picture. The advantages of slide holders include: low cost; large variety of style: and uses as versatile as your imagination. My recommendation is to purchase a small variety of slide mounts and try them for yourself. With a little creativity, there is no end to what you can do with them.

Page accents are often costly but slide mounts have a modest cost. Plain plastic slide mounts run about 10-15 cents each. Plastic slide mounts with perforations for brads in the corners will run 15-30 cents each. Paper slide mounts and decorated slide mounts are a little more but most are under a dollar.

Slide Mounts come in a variety of colors: basic primary, black and white, pastel, glittered, fall colors. Some plastic mounts have a tiny hole in each corner perfect for brads or small fibers to fit through. Paper slide mounts come in a few different sizes and some are pre-decorated in a thematic print. Sticker manufacturers are also making sticker covers for slide mounts.

Slide Mounts are a perfect accent on a card or a scrapbook page. The following are just a few:

• Slides can be used alone or in a group.
  
  
  
  

• Slide colors can accent the color scheme of your page or go monochromatic by covering the slide with paper. NOTE: the easiest paper to use to cover a slide is lightweight paper.
  
  
  
  

• Frame a small picture with tiny subjects. NOTE: add depth to the frame by adding pop dots between two frames.
  

  
  
  

• Make a shaker box(for the Black Sand Beach Layout, the black plastic slide mount frames a cardstock sticker with actual black Hawaiian sand added with two sided tape). In the Snowman Layout, the slides have Magic Scraps Ice inside, with decorative stickers on the outside.
  
  

  
  
  
  
  

• Frame words using word stickers or a computer printed word on cardstock or vellum.
  
  

  
  
  
  
  

• Dress the slide up with: buttons; bows; ribbons; brads; paper; jewels; fibers or stickers.
  
  

  
  
  

• Stamp, paint or apply rub on letters and words to your slide holders.

Slide holders have become a creative addiction to me. Once you start decorating them, you won’t be able to stop.

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