Fun simple project

I saw a post recently of someone making an awesome memory capture with the scanning feature on a printer. It was a scan of their hand and their child’s hand. I knew I had to do it!

So I whipped out my printer and tried it out!

It didn’t start out so well…

I tried it with my sons hand and he would not sit still, and my printer (although newer) decided it didn’t want to print anything. So I freed my toddler from the torture of sitting with me holding my hand, and just practiced with my own.

I decided I’d grab my baby girl and try her hand, she was much more cooperative!

The printer however, was not.

I had to fidget with it a bit, the lighting was either too dark or too bright, and I kept getting a skip in the print. (I never did fix that issue.)

Once I got the best version I let my baby girl play and not hold her down!

The photo above was hers, dirty hands and all. She had blanket fuzz stuck in her palm creases and who knows where the finger specks came from…

This picture below was me and my son. He did NOT want to sit still so I didn’t get many chances to mess with the light settings, which is why his turned out so much darker, but it’s ok! The contrast is kind of neat!

I just used regular paper for these because I didn’t want to waste good card stock on trials! So I do plan on perfecting these! But for the time being, I tacked them up in the living room.

My printer is an HP envy, I got it free, brand new never been opened! What a deal huh?!

But since I’ve had it, I have never had a permanent spot for it, so unfortunately it gets moved…a lot… and I am certain that’s why it has a bit of a hiccup in the printing.

All in all this was a simple project to do, I think if you had a cooperative pup, you could do really sweet paw prints of your dog, a lasting memory of a moment in time.

If you have a scanner on your printer, give this a shot! Play around with the brightness scale on the printer plus the lighting in your room and that’s it! If you try this, good luck, and I’d love to see them!

~A