Mystic Page Modifications

Hi,

I should say thank you to everyone who spent time and efforts so our collections can look even more beautiful.

Hopefully this question has not been asked before: Where can I get blank 70 lb cream finch paper used by the Heirloom albums or something similar to print the pages? What would be a good printer to print them and any special settings for the printer?

Thank you.

Mystic sells blank pages with a pre-printed border. That's what I currently use. In the past I had used 32 lb. ivory 100% cotton paper. Color-wise, it was a close match. Texture and thickness-wise, it was not.

And Page 607 has now been hacked to group together the peaches/pear setenants Mystic chose to break up.

Here's a pic of the front:



And the back:



You can download the file here:

http://stamphacks.com/wp/?p=993

And the page 665 hack to keep Legends of American Music se-tenant together:

Picture of front:



Picture of back:



Download the file here: http://stamphacks.com/wp/?p=998

Here are the specific print size and fonts per Mystic. Hope that helps.

Headlines – Helvetica Bold 20pts

Text boxes – Times 9/10

Captions – Helvetica 8/9

Are my font sizes off? I thought I was using the right ones.

Had to redo the Page 665 hack. The stamp boxes were not wide enough. Here's the new version:

http://stamphacks.com/wp/?p=1003

Ok, I updated the Page 667 hack to make 2 pages. One allows you to mount the whole Legends of American Music strip, the other lets you mount, just the se-tenant, without the second Elvis stamp on the bottom of the strip.

Some pics:







Blog post here to downloaded needed files: http://stamphacks.com/wp/?p=1011

And the Page 623 Hack to keep the Olympic se-tenant together:

Front:



Back:



All the files are on my blog:

http://stamphacks.com/wp/?p=1030

And the Page 637 hack to keep the Winter Olympic se-tenant together.

Front:



Back:



And the blog post with the files:

http://stamphacks.com/wp/?p=1035

And the Page 631 hack to add the Scott 1580-81 se-tenant.

Front:



Back:



Blog post with downloads: http://stamphacks.com/wp/?p=1040

apastuszak, I love the commitment to righting the wrongs by redesigning existing album pages!
Beautiful work! What kind of scanner or software do you use to create such clean files?
Based on your obvious investment of time, you must have a very understanding wife.

I don't use a scanner. I use an open source Desktop Publishing program called Scribus and do it all by hand. I do scan the text and OCR it using the free copy that came with my Epson scanned called Abby Finereader.

I can create a modified Mystic page in under 15 minutes usually. I test fit the stamps, wife proofreads the pages and it's online in usually a half hour from when I start. After you've made enough of them, you can go back to older pages and reuse box sizes.

On another note...

I make pages for the se-tenants I have. If you need a page made that's pre-2001 and can give me the exact measurement of the stamp in the mount in millimeters, I can make the page. That way you get the page quicker, and the page is ready for me when I finally get the stamp. So, it's a win-win.

AND... I have finished hacking page 886, to mount all the Reindeer stamps as blocks of four. Here is what I came up with:



Blog post here: http://stamphacks.com/wp/?p=1136