Upcycle and Transform

Upcycle and Transform

This is a project that has gotten totally out of control.  It’s what happens with a big stack of holiday card boxes and leftover notecards added to a huge stash of found and manipulated papers.  Over the years I’ve made a habit of sending as many as 450 holiday cards a year to business contacts, and my favorites came in nice chipboard boxes with magnetic closures (Peter Pauper Press), so of course you can’t throw them away even if they were a great buy.  On the other hand, I don’t need a big stack of boxes with pine trees and doves and that kind of thing.  So, I learned how to deconstruct them, how to do corners the right way, and got to work.  (Thanks to Nicolette Ross of Ross Press and BIndery for my first boxmaking lessons).

That’s how the first stack came about, and they seemed so empty.  So, I remembered I also had a stack of notecards left over from workshops I used to do.  Problem is that they already had line designs outlined on the front flaps (has to do with a workshop exercise, story for another day).  So, collage stash to the rescue.

I didn’t really have a solid plan in advance for what to do with them, but some are in my Etsy store right now, and I still have plenty of raw material to work with, so I think I will be at this for a while.