Thing-a-day is a yearly creative sprint where, every year in February, participants commit to creating one new thing a day and post it on a collective blog. 2010 was thing-a-day's fourth edition and the first to run on Posterous. We're gearing up for 2011 so come back mid-January for more updates!
Patrick McColley
Chelvanaya
Ryan Germick
Heather Rasley
seanaes
Jonathan Manning
Lily
Inspired Creatives
Mike Dory
Irena Romendik
For the final day of TAD-2010 I wanted to try something different: making a kind of money-box from a plastic jar (an empty box for dog snacks).
Here's the result!
P.S. Thanks a lot, Zebru, for affording me the opportunity of being a part of this year's TAD Team! I enjoyed the experience, it was fun and full of inspiration! Congrats to all the participants!
For my final installment I did some work on a Round Robin Journal that I've been hanging onto for a while trying to find time to give some undivided attention to. I found the paper doll in my childhood bedroom. I think I made it while I was a teenager, so it is good that it will get to see the world now. If you want to see me again before next year, feel free to check out:
My Etsy Shop, Ikyoto
Had fun playing with bees wax and ink today. This is one of my experiments making batik paper.
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My brother got me a really cool craft book called Origami on the Move: Cars, Trucks, Ships, Planes & More. The first thing I made from it was the Spanish Galleon. It was so cool (as was the paper I had to use) that I also made up my own little setting to put it into complete with waves and sun. Fun!
Today I received some new ring blanks I purchased recently. I was very excited to make some paper wrapped spiral rings, like the pendants I've made and had success with before. They will take about 24 hours to harden and then if everything goes well, I'll be adding them to my Etsy shop.
Once they were all assembled, I was so thrilled with the circle ones that I almost gasped at how beautifully they came out.
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Today for Thing-A-Day I finished a mix CD I've been working on, tweaking and refining for a long time. I burned the first copy and listened to it to make sure there were no skips and the music all flowed properly from song to song. I am still brainstorming for ideas on the album artwork. I sat down at my drawing table to begin working on the artwork when I remembered a post I saw earlier today.
I saw this tutorial post on iHanna's blog about making fabric paper and it seemed like fun.
The first one I made I really liked, but then I wanted to "tint" it and added some acrylic paints and I wasn't thrilled with the outcome. That is more than a light tint, wouldn't you say? I wanted it to be light yellow with "barely there" touches of green and orange, and instead it became red and green. Go figure.
I had fun though, so I decided to do another one. This one (all the more "white" images) I left alone. I chose more neutral colored paper bits and I think I might come back over it later with a very watered down wash of white.
What will I end up doing with these? Who knows, but I thought I might scan them in and do some digital work over it for the album artwork.
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Used the corner of an envelope for an easy start, then papercut a scene inspired by the Olympics. Backed it with gold from the inner lining of the envelope. And now I'm caught up! :-)
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