The Yearbook
Original Design
A Multi-media collage homage to the year. Each page including the cover has a paper doll and a wizard.
I started each page with a piece of card stock. Onto this I glued a seasonal appropriate picture from old calendar. Since they weren’t as big as the card stock I framed them with paper. I then randomly glued on tissue paper, again seasonally themed.
After the base work I added; collage pictures, words, postage stamps, tissue paper etc.. The paper dolls were altered by cutting their hair from the heads, the body being covered by decorative paper. I then put the hair back on and a dress glued on.The doll was then glued to an ink dyed wet one and framed.
The final layer of buttons, earrings, pins, lace ribbon was then glued on. The pages are edged with lace yarn and beads.
I then punched 3 holes on the opposite edge from the lace/beads. I used key rings to assemble the book, and tied ribbons onto the rings in clumps.
Local thrift shops are a great place to find seasonal earrings and pins, also paint, and other craft supplies. Finding a $6 bottle of metallic paint for 10 cents can’t be beat! Although I do sometimes wonder who bought those hideous earrings in the first place.
As with most all my projects, after individually gluing meant “ungluing ” my fingers took up almost time as the project itself. This is a great project for trying out new techniques and new visual presentations.
This is the cover page
Jan
Apr
Can you guess which month? Sorry about the fuzzy, made the print with scanner
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