Tonight's craft project starts a few years ago now... in fact 3 and a half years ago.
Andee and I had been travelling around europe for six weeks and we were at our last destination in Athens Greece.
andee and I in greece
It was a super hot day and we were wandering the streets looking for somewhere cool to stop for lunch. Although it seemed we had missed lunch and most places were closed for siesta. Down one of the meandering back alley's we stumbled across this artist studio/shop filled with giant canvas paintings and a large collection of jewellery made from paper, I was in heaven... and yes I tried on all the pieces!
me wandering thru the alleyways in athens
I ended up just buying one bracelet (see pic below) and returned home to Australia inspired to learn how he made these amazing recyclable, wearable pieces of art
it took me quite some time to work out all the elements
this is the pattern piece i ended up with
it works well to make one cardboard template to ensure all your paper beads end up the same size
ive used an old map book for this one, you will also need wooden skewers and PVA glue
you roll your piece of paper very carefully and tightly onto the wooden skewer and then paint the whole paper bead with PVA glue (ensuring not to get glue on the stick-because you want to be able to get your paper bead off the stick the next day)
after you have enough and they are dried you need a very long piece of strong elastic to wind your sticks together (2 pieces of elastic need to go thru the same stick in opposite directions)
to create your own paper bracelet.
These take ALOT of fiddling around to get your technique correct.
I am keen to try out some new paper based creations in the following weeks!!
Craft out peoples
xxoo
1 comment:
this is awesome, love it
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