Elgin woman uses recycled wares to create treasures.(Neighbor)
Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), January, 2006 by Adkins, Lenore T.
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Byline: Lenore T. Adkins Daily Herald Staff Writer Some people's throwaways have become Jo Schram's treasures. Instead of discarding old coins, pictures, postage stamps and other trinkets, Schram of Elgin collects them, featuring them as standout designs on some of her pieces, to decorate blank greeting cards and artist trading cards.
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On one such greeting card, she put a domino, vintage drawings of fashionable women and a piece of fabric embossed with flowers on a tag. Another one, with an Asian theme, she uses drawings of Japanese women and Asian coins. Some of the tags ...
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