Winged creature with a domino belly July 31, 2009
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I made this really cool winged creature with a domino belly for a friend of mine. The creature is glued onto thick board and it was a pain to cut it out. I was pretty sure the neck would snap but I was wrong. The domino hides an accordian book behind it.
Music house May 27, 2009
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I like making books out of songs. This time I made one in the shape of a house. It has been bound with the Bind-it-all.
Page 1: Men at Work: I can see it in your eyes
Page 2: Kraftwerk: The Robots
Page 3: Nik Kershaw: You don’t have to be the Sun
Page 4: Noel Harrison: The Windmills of Your Mind
I just love this song!
Page 5: Landscape: From the Tea-rooms of Mars to the Hell-holes of Uranus
No comments, ha.
Page 6: Lightning Seeds: The Life of Riley
Page 7: Albert Hammond: It Never Rains in California
Page 8: The Kinks: Supersonic Rocket Ship
A project is not a very good one if I can’t fit my favourite rocket ship stamp in it!
Page 9: Kraftwerk: Autobahn
Page 10: Dido: Take my Hand
Page 11: Sting: Be Still my Beating Heart
Page 12: Captain Sensible: Crazy Fish
The writing on the window is a bit unclear. It says: The crazy fish swimming past my window make is all worth while with the bubbles that they blow.
Page 13: The Police: Walking on the Moon
Yeah, you go girl!
Page 14: Smiths: Some Girls are Bigger than Others
Page 15: The Kinks: Skin & Bone
Page 16: The B-52s: Song for a Future Generation
The great sense of passing through April 10, 2009
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Do you still remember this recycled cardboard box book? Well, I have finally finished it. I knew which pictures I wanted to use on it but looked high and low with no luck for a poem that would go with the pictures. Finally I came across Dido’s song ‘Northern Skies’ which could not be any more boring and I would gladly watch paint dry (in fact, I think I would gladly listen to paint dry) rather than listen to the song again but the lyrics are good and totally fit the bill. Click the pictures for bigger ones.
I have returned to the northern skies,
Where the summer had not touched
The clouds that pass above.
Oh, and I have returned to the somber grace
Of the days too early to come and too early to stay.
And I have left a million stars,
And an ocean so lightly, so clearly blue.
And I have left the warmth of the sun
And a million adventures not yet begun.
The great sense of passing through,
The great sense of passing through,
The great sense of passing through.
Oh, for once there was beauty here for me
Under these white, northern skies.
I felt the green was blacker
And the blue was darker still.
My roots are lying deeper than I ever think they will again.
Heartache and poverty under these northern skies.
The great sense of passing through,
The great sense of passing through,
The great sense of passing through.
Black & white March 5, 2009
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I have been recycling again. I made this cool thick book out of a cardboard box. I cut 13 x 13 cm pages out of it and covered them with patterned paper. I used a different black & white paper on each page and there is a solid black paper on the other side of each page to calm it down a bit. I punched holes to the side and attached some book rings to hold it together. Now I just need to fill it…
Dog-tired March 2, 2009
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Tesla knows how to take it easy and where is the best place in the house to sleep.
A nap February 25, 2009
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More puppy pages… Tesla was a really funny thing (and he still is) and used to sleep in the most strange places and positions.
Wild thing February 23, 2009
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Here is my little dog again.
Shrek the third February 21, 2009
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This is the second page for my dogs’ movie book. If you didn’t get it, this is Shrek the third.
Oskar season January 25, 2009
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I came up with this brilliant idea of making a book of my dogs, inspired by films. Oskar always gives such an ‘Oskar-winning performance’ anyway. The first page also happens to go well with the Chinese New Year tomorrow. So, Happy New Year!
One fat book December 20, 2008
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I have been working on this book swap with a friend of mine since last summer. We swapped 10 x 10 cm sized books. We came up with a theme for each page which we then decorated on both sides. We were going to make about 8-10 pages but ended up with 20. Just couldn’t stop. For the cover we had to send something for the other to include on it. I received some stamped images and I chose to use some cute hedgehogs which I coloured and then glued onto fragments. Here are the covers I made:
And then the pages. I suggest you go and get yourself a cup of joe first because there are loads of these pages to look through. Here we go:
1st theme: Time
2nd theme: Birds
An odd ball is translated in Finnish as an odd bird. Since the theme was birds I decided to call it an odd bird instead of a ball. Makes sense, doesn’t it?
3rd theme: Butterflies
4th theme: Romance
This one didn’t come out at all the way I saw it in my head. Absolute rubbish.
5th theme: Summer
The girl is a magazine cut-out, gessoed and coloured. I’m not very good with this technique but I like the way this one turned out.
6th theme: Winter
I just love snowflake stamps!
7th theme: Femininity (what a silly word!)
8th theme: Men
Another gessoed magazine cut-out but I’m not too happy about this one. The jeans turned out quite nicely though.
9th theme: Autumn
Teddy’s rain gear is coated in clear embossing powder and it looks like real raincoat and wellies material.
10th theme: Home
11th theme: Cats
12th theme: Christmas
13th theme: World
14th theme: Royalty
15th theme: Buttons
16th theme: Fantasy
Fairies don’t really do anything for me, but dragons…aaah. I especially love this little one!
17th theme: Shapes
That’s a great song: the windmills of your mind!
18th theme: Stars
19th theme: Waiting for Christmas
When we were kids we were bullied all autumn until Christmas to behave since the elves would be listening behind the windows and they would report any naughtyness back to Santa. Hence the second page…
20th theme: Oriental
One of my most favourite themes. I love all things oriental!
If you are still here, well done! You made it to the end.
