The Elfen Factory

We have been hard at work all month long in preparations for the SCRAP Holiday Bazaar. All of our handmade gifts needed to be made almost entirely of re-used materials. We had a long list of items to make and kept thinking of more. Finally, Michelle and I agreed to stick with: gift tags, gift boxes, magnets, frosted glass votive holders, sketchbooks, eye pillows, garlands and ornaments, including our magnificent pieces des resistances: the Urchin Ornaments ( see picture in next post).

We needed one hardcore day in the shop though, to really churn out those last items. So the class took a field trip to SCRAP to use their workshop. Within an hour we had made more than we ever did in two back at school, it seemed.

The main reason we needed to go there to work was to use the drool-inducing die cut machine. I am not sure who likes this more, the kids or the teachers. This is a wonderful invention that cuts paper and other materials into a desired shape. In our case it was gift tags with a little hole and several box shapes that we could fold into a finished product.

The paper we used for these products we decorated with "spin art"- paint in a salad spinner & watercolor and we used blueprint vellum salvaged at SCRAP. We then finished them off with fancy ribbons.

Thank you to SCRAP for letting us use your space and tools!!