Cloth Paper Scissors - March/April 2009 - (Page 14)

w of CRADLE muse elcome to Muse Flash, a new department of CLOTH PAPER SCISSORS packed with a-muse-ing tips, tidbits, and tales from our editors and readers around the globe. Have something timely or interesting to share related to mixed media? Do spill by emailing us at bdelaney@interweave.com. Please write Muse Flash in the subject line. Coined by William McDonough and Michael Braungart, authors TO VINCENT VAN GOGH Birth date March 30, 1853 CRADLE: REMAKING THE WAY WE MAKE THINGS, Source: Wikipedia of artists and related workers are re S Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics 62 ABOUT from to Recycling at its FUN(kiest)! Can you believe this used to be a Starbucks gift card? Jennifer Nash takes used gift cards and repurposes them into upcycled, fun, cute jewelry, bags, and more. JUPITA.ETSY.COM save transparency ﬁlm, and painted just a bit using acrylic paints. Using a Crop-A-Dile™, I punched two holes in the cap (one to add a brad in the heart’s center and one for the jump ring) and painted Tim Holtz silver alcohol ink on the edge of the charm and around the jump ring circle. I glued handmade paper to the back of the charm to cover the legs of the brad, painted a bit to enhance (but not cover) the paper, and glued a piece of transparency ﬁlm with my name to the back. Lastly, I coated both the front and the back with a satin sealer and inserted the jump ring.” June Pfaff Daley JUNEPFAFFDALEY.BLOGSPOT.COM THE ! M March National Craft Month M March 21 National Quilting Day A April 17–19, 2009 In International Quilt Festival/Chicago Make it University!™ with CLOTH PAPER SCISSORS® quilts.com April 22 Earth Day “In prep for my ﬁrst-ever art retreat, I’ve been making charms for swapping. As with many of my art projects, I wanted to repurpose something and use materials I had on hand. I experimented with several charm-sized items to use for the body of the charm and ended up settling on metal bottle caps. To start, I pounded each cap ﬂat with a hammer, and then cut imperfect circles (a little smaller than the cap size) out of handmade paper scraps from my stash. I glued and sealed these papers to the underside of the cap, added the words love, hope, and give on C P S http://jupita.etsy.com http://www.quilts.com http://junepfaffdaley.blogspot.com

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Cloth Paper Scissors - March/April 2009 Musings Contents Now Read This The In-box Who Did This? Popping the Question Muse Flash The Workshop: Modeling Paste “Recycled Circles” Artist Profile: Sara Lechner Fickle Flowers “Skeletons in your Closet” Reader Challenge Printable Cotton Collage Stop! Look! Listen! Revisionary Journals Creating Custom Paper for Collage Metal Magic Artist to Artist with Martha Lent An Apron as Personal Armor I Made This: "Gypsy Cats" Versatile Identities Marketplace Classifieds and Ad Index Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman Homework

Cloth Paper Scissors - March/April 2009

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