Still defaulting to cardboard……I've been collecting anything and everything with brown paper packing. These little craft boxes are a terrific addition to my cardboard sculptures, and they were the perfect fit inside an assemblage frame. See the July/August Somerset Studio for the complete article.
Tag: cardboard
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even more b&k
Wow! There's been a ton of feedback on the cardboard journal tutorial I presented on Stampington's blog. Many visitors left comments, there are hundreds of pins from the post, and a huge amount of likes and shares from their facebook page. I've even rec'd emails from artists who have jumped in and made their own. HCIT?
A little background – I first started making these cardboard journals about five years ago. One was included in the Artist Portfolio feature in Stampington's Art Journaling (Issue: Summer 2011) The first one, called Table Scraps Journal, made it's debut on this blog in August, 2011. Then I started showing you others, which I started calling Debris Journals, in December 2011. I taught my first cardboard journal class at Create NJ 2012, and again in 2013. I will be teaching The DeComposition Journal this October at The Ink Pad in NYC, along with my cardboard sculpture class, What a Relief. My last two columns in Somerset Studio have been about cardboard, and the next one will also feature it. What I love is that the material is versatile, readily available, and unintimidating to work with. As I continue using this humble supply, I find new ways to manipulate it, and can't stop pushing my expectations of how it can perform. I'm currently working on an end-of-the-year article that will make you re-think cardboard for the holidays!
Here is more from my Black&Kraft:
I love to leave a peek at some of the markings from the cut up cartons that show up on the pages. I've used some of these spreads to document my collections of black&kraft papers, and have made some deliberate cuts with stencils. I just love the look of this color combination. Just think, if Borders bookstore hadn't closed, where I used to get my kraft paper blank journals, I may never have conspired to make my own, and found out all the cool things that be done with recycling bin treasures.
This week we had to get a new table for the deck as the glass top on the old one shattered. You should see the stellar specimens of cardboard that the new table came wrapped in – a full sheet of mini-honeycomb plus several full sheets of perfect corrugated goodness. I'm delirious about the possibilities!
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even more b&k
Wow! There's been a ton of feedback on the cardboard journal tutorial I presented on Stampington's blog. Many visitors left comments, there are hundreds of pins from the post, and a huge amount of likes and shares from their facebook page. I've even rec'd emails from artists who have jumped in and made their own. HCIT?
A little background – I first started making these cardboard journals about five years ago. One was included in the Artist Portfolio feature in Stampington's Art Journaling (Issue: Summer 2011) The first one, called Table Scraps Journal, made it's debut on this blog in August, 2011. Then I started showing you others, which I started calling Debris Journals, in December 2011. I taught my first cardboard journal class at Create NJ 2012, and again in 2013. I will be teaching The DeComposition Journal this October at The Ink Pad in NYC, along with my cardboard sculpture class, What a Relief. My last two columns in Somerset Studio have been about cardboard, and the next one will also feature it. What I love is that the material is versatile, readily available, and unintimidating to work with. As I continue using this humble supply, I find new ways to manipulate it, and can't stop pushing my expectations of how it can perform. I'm currently working on an end-of-the-year article that will make you re-think cardboard for the holidays!
Here is more from my Black&Kraft:
I love to leave a peek at some of the markings from the cut up cartons that show up on the pages. I've used some of these spreads to document my collections of black&kraft papers, and have made some deliberate cuts with stencils. I just love the look of this color combination. Just think, if Borders bookstore hadn't closed, where I used to get my kraft paper blank journals, I may never have conspired to make my own, and found out all the cool things that be done with recycling bin treasures.
This week we had to get a new table for the deck as the glass top on the old one shattered. You should see the stellar specimens of cardboard that the new table came wrapped in – a full sheet of mini-honeycomb plus several full sheets of perfect corrugated goodness. I'm delirious about the possibilities!
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more B&K
More pages from my Black&Kraft journal. I've prepared a tutorial on Constructing and DeConstructing cardboard as a journal for Stampington's blog. See that HERE. It's a companion to my column in the recent Somerset Studio. In the right sidebar albums you can see more of my cardboard journal pages. (If you're reading through a feed, click HERE for the album). I need to get it updated, but there is alot to see there. Sneak peek below of some stencils that will debut soon 😉
Thanks for all the birthday wishes! I had a terrific week of celebrating – a good start to a year of being 50! And the roses are now in full bloom – hundreds of them came out this week. I'm a lucky girl.
Only six weeks until CREATE NJ kicks off! I'm preparing lots of stuff for the workshops and vendor night. Hope to see you there!!
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more B&K
More pages from my Black&Kraft journal. I've prepared a tutorial on Constructing and DeConstructing cardboard as a journal for Stampington's blog. See that HERE. It's a companion to my column in the recent Somerset Studio. In the right sidebar albums you can see more of my cardboard journal pages. (If you're reading through a feed, click HERE for the album). I need to get it updated, but there is alot to see there. Sneak peek below of some stencils that will debut soon 😉
Thanks for all the birthday wishes! I had a terrific week of celebrating – a good start to a year of being 50! And the roses are now in full bloom – hundreds of them came out this week. I'm a lucky girl.
Only six weeks until CREATE NJ kicks off! I'm preparing lots of stuff for the workshops and vendor night. Hope to see you there!!
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new article – old favorite
As you know, I've been playing with cardboard for quite a while. If you're a regular here you've seen my cardboard journals (right sidebar photo album has some archived pages). I think it's such a fabulous material to work with and I continually find new ways to push it's usefulness. My May/June Somerset Studio column is about the journals, in particular a new Black & Kraft one. Scroll down for previous sneak peeks, or if you're reading through a feed, click HERE. Magazine on shelves May 1st.
I will be teaching two cardboard classes in NYC in October. Visit www.TheInkPadNYC.com for details. All my upcoming classes are posted in the left sidebar or you can click on WORKSHOPS at the navigation bar on top. I will be teaching three classes in NJ in July, and I'm coming to San Diego for the first time in September, for San Diego Book Arts.
My apologies to visitors who got frustrated during the week as Typepad had issues on and off for several days. I wasn't able to connect either! Hopefully all is fixed and we won't experience outages again. Happy to see things back up!
EDIT: In late May, I was a guest blogger on Stampington's site. I offered a tutorial on making your own cardboard journal. In case you missed it I'm posting here, as well as in my Cardboard Journal album in the right sidebar.
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new article – old favorite
As you know, I've been playing with cardboard for quite a while. If you're a regular here you've seen my cardboard journals (right sidebar photo album has some archived pages). I think it's such a fabulous material to work with and I continually find new ways to push it's usefulness. My May/June Somerset Studio column is about the journals, in particular a new Black & Kraft one. Scroll down for previous sneak peeks, or if you're reading through a feed, click HERE. Magazine on shelves May 1st.
I will be teaching two cardboard classes in NYC in October. Visit www.TheInkPadNYC.com for details. All my upcoming classes are posted in the left sidebar or you can click on WORKSHOPS at the navigation bar on top. I will be teaching three classes in NJ in July, and I'm coming to San Diego for the first time in September, for San Diego Book Arts.
My apologies to visitors who got frustrated during the week as Typepad had issues on and off for several days. I wasn't able to connect either! Hopefully all is fixed and we won't experience outages again. Happy to see things back up!
EDIT: In late May, I was a guest blogger on Stampington's site. I offered a tutorial on making your own cardboard journal. In case you missed it I'm posting here, as well as in my Cardboard Journal album in the right sidebar.
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one thing leads to another
I've been a fan of M.C. Escher for a long time….like before high school. I added another book to the collection – a super fun flipbook, HERE. I love how a familiar piece of work takes on a new form. It got me thinking about a poster I've had rolled up for a while. Metamorphosis II – it comes as 4 panels, 8.5" x 41" each. I thought I would install around the ceiling line of my studio, but I never did it, and now my shelves go up so high it would hardly be visible. The little flipbook gave me an idea, and the motivation, to alter the present state of the poster, and turn it into a book that I could hold in my hand.
It took some manuevering to flatten out the rolls, match up the pattern and make the attachments so it was one loooooong panel, then measure and do a little math to arrive at a suitable division. I left an extra flap at the leading edge so it could be tucked under a paper strip to hold in place within a cardboard portfolio. The whole thing can be pulled out and still viewed in its full panoramic glory, but within the covers I'm enjoying savoring the details page by page. One thing always leads to another! This accordion generated more ideas….still in progress, I'll report in later 🙂
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one thing leads to another
I've been a fan of M.C. Escher for a long time….like before high school. I added another book to the collection – a super fun flipbook, HERE. I love how a familiar piece of work takes on a new form. It got me thinking about a poster I've had rolled up for a while. Metamorphosis II – it comes as 4 panels, 8.5" x 41" each. I thought I would install around the ceiling line of my studio, but I never did it, and now my shelves go up so high it would hardly be visible. The little flipbook gave me an idea, and the motivation, to alter the present state of the poster, and turn it into a book that I could hold in my hand.
It took some manuevering to flatten out the rolls, match up the pattern and make the attachments so it was one loooooong panel, then measure and do a little math to arrive at a suitable division. I left an extra flap at the leading edge so it could be tucked under a paper strip to hold in place within a cardboard portfolio. The whole thing can be pulled out and still viewed in its full panoramic glory, but within the covers I'm enjoying savoring the details page by page. One thing always leads to another! This accordion generated more ideas….still in progress, I'll report in later 🙂
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black and kraft
I'm knee deep in three different projects, and I haven't even started our taxes. Yikes! I handcut some new stencils today to test out before I send into production - can't wait to show you!! For now, since I've been an absent blogger, I will give you a peek into my latest Debris Journal – I call this one Black & Kraft. You can see more from this one in an upcoming article for Somerset Studio (May/June). You can also take a class with me and make your own Debris Journal at the Ink Pad in New York City, October 19. We'll be doing some fun stuff on the pages, like you see below – using stencils to make marks, and to peel away the top surface.