special boxes for secret stashes

tiny cube, closed, a photo by bbartteacher on Flickr.

this beautiful little cube was constructed with book board and lovely printed paper. I made 4 box types total in a tiny boxes workshop this weekend: cigar, matchbox and a portfolio, as well as the cube with separating lid.

I love tiny boxes

Worked all day making tiny box forms with Jody Williams. What a fab geek out crafty lady kind of day.

Sample Book

I recently started a sample book if papers that I have made this year. Each signature in this accordion book holds a group of papers and a description page.

geranium petals in day lily paper

geranium petals in day lily paper, a photo by bbartteacher on Flickr.

inclusions include hydrangea petals and geranium. The paper is made of day lily, cooked for 1.5 hours, cooled in pot for almost 3, rinsed and blender beaten. the vat had a mixture of cotton and daylily.

Cotton and Birchbark Paper ROCKS

Paper Parade, a photo by bbartteacher on Flickr.

this amazing paper started with some ratty birchbark peeling off of the river birch in my front yard. Cooked on Saturday morning and plopped in a vat of cotton on Monday. Gorgeous.

look at the amazing illuminated papers we made tonight. I love to look in the window at the studio with these blocks of color and texture "blocking" the view.

I harvested day lily and cooked it this weekend. The result is the brown paper. The green paper on the right has poppy seed and dill to create the color shift and texture. 

Abaca and cotton papers

Abaca and cotton papers, a photo by bbartteacher on Flickr.

wet papers on the window at MCBA. these were made in a class. some are double couched with abaca on cotton.

Fun to be in the paper studio remembering how to beat, clean, pull, clean. dry, and clean up again.

Excited to do some harvesting in my yard and elsewhere. Got some cooking to do this weekend.

Marbled Paper In the Teacher Show

I've decided on my entry for the 2nd Annual MPS Teacher Show. I'm putting in, 3 pieces of my marbled paper "drawings". I had something totally different in mind, brought my three choices to share with my work team and they decided with me that the marbling was the most dynamic. So, there you have it. Here is  one of the three pieces that I'll hang. This will be grouped with a git gel design with splatter and a more psychedelic piece with "leaf" design. It'll be interesting to see what people think about these crazy papers.