Loersch Slide Frames and Designer Tiles are one of today’s hottest products in scrapbooking. Their popularity is driven by; the number of colors available and the variety of creative ways they may be used. This article will explain the various products available, offer some suggestions on how they are used and illustrate how Loersch products are used.

Slide Frames – The Micro-Sized Mini-Frame
Slide Frames make beautiful enhancements to scrapbooking pages, custom greeting cards and are an excellent choice in making gift tags. Slide frames are available in a variety of sizes but our most popular size is the 2” x 2” with a 1 3/8” x 7/8” rectangular hole in the middle.

At Loersch, we look at them as a micro-sized picture-mat or mini-frame. Slide Frames are our most widely used product.

Slide Frames are used over a photo, word or phrase allowing the element to “show through”. This effectively “frames” the element - drawing attention and giving special visual meaning and interest to that area on the page or card. This creates a certain intimacy and depending on your color choice, you can draw attention to or develop a cohesive look to your creative work. Often crafters will add additional decorations to the slide frames, paint or even etch them with tools.

One thing is for certain; with twelve main color groups and six colors in each group - your choices of finding the right color to have a perfect focal point and give clearer meaning in your creative work is only limited by your imagination.


Designer Tiles
Another exciting addition to our product lineup is the Designer Tile. Introduced in late 2004 these are now available in the same 72 colors as our Slide Frame lineup.

The Designer Tile as a stand-alone embellishment is an exciting product to use. Think of them as a micro-thin solid surface to glue and add embellishments to. They are like “a page unto themselves”.

Embellished in the same ways as the Slide Frames, Designer Tiles are great shape to work with. Designer Tiles have a 50% larger surface than the Slide Frames to add even more embellished elements. Designer Tiles work fantastically as color accents or backgrounds for stick-on-lettering, stamping or pictures. Currently many crafters are treating Designer Tiles as tiny pages and using them on the same page with Slide Frames.


Designer Tiles and Frames Together
Another possibility is using Designer Tiles with Frames together. Easy and very dynamic combining these products offers huge creative possibilities. You simply use a Designer Tile as a backing to the Slide Frame!

Any two frames can snap together, providing a multitude of two color combinations to work with. Tone on tone; contrasting colors, all reds, warm and cool, light to dark. Think of the possibilities! Crafters have also combined the Slide Frames with the Designer Tiles but at a different angle creating a star effect.


Interesting to Know - Archival Matters
Archival and durability matters are always a concern at Loersch. Doubly important, given the uniqueness and personal worth the elements hold to their creators.

Slide frames originated in the photographic industry to hold transparency films in projectors. Extensively used with 35mm slide films, Loersch mounts are used by professional photographers because of the protection they offer. These unique physical properties meet archival standards. No concern need be given to acid damage from our products. We do recommend using Herma Tape™, archival tape or Glue Dots™ to attach our products safely and securely. Loersch products are also very thin (Frames being slightly thinner than the Designer Tiles) so the likely hood of your book pages being damaged from weighted creasing is minimal. Slide Frames if used with an acetate chip in the opening offer additional protection for special page embellishments. Some crafters have also taken advantage of the versatility of Slide Frames and build up layers of mounts to “house” thicker elements on their pages. We also have Large format Frames available in 4 sizes that are different shapes and sizes then our Slide Frames.

Loersch Slide Frames and Designer Tiles offer many creative advantages for today’s Crafters.

For further information, please visit www.loersch.com to further review our line of exciting products and creative guides.


As also published at Stamping & Scrapping Reflections