The Yahoo Mini-Books Group I belong to had a swap I participated in with the subject "Things That Fly". Each person was to make a 3x5 tag for all participants and then mail them directly to each participant. I made my tags out of watercolor paper. I coated both sides with gesso, then used acrylics and a spray bottle and painted on an orangish backgound. I then used punchinella/sequin waste as a stencil to add the blue dot design. At that point I cut the paper into 3x5 pieces and made them into tags. Then rubber stamped the image and words. Lastly was to add the blue hole protectors to the hole I had punched (white ones bought at an office supply store and dyed blue with ink pad) and then add the yarn.
Once I got done with the tags I had all these strips of watercolor paper with the orange paint and blue dots on them. I just started playing around with them and kinda started weaving them together. It was looking pretty cool so I though I'd put in in my journal. I had this blue background I had made by rubbing a colored pencil over the page while it was resting on the rough wood of an old picnic table and got a wood grain design. I decided to use that as my background for the weaving. And as long as I was sitting there with all the leftovers from my tags I decided to glue a few of the holes around the edges. Then I decided I should use the little triangles left over from cutting the top corners of the tags off. Those and gluing a few more of the left over holes around the weaving, as well as using a bird paper punch on a scrap and adding those completed the page for me. It was pretty fun to use up my leftovers like that!
What do you do with your leftover pieces from a paper project?
LOVE the woven strips.
ReplyDeletei always save scraps for possible future collages.
Monica