Showing posts with label papel picado. Show all posts
Showing posts with label papel picado. Show all posts

Monday, October 26, 2020

Hallowe’en paper doll party

Welcome!

All kaleidoscopes by inkspired and KaleidoCam 


“Halloween is an opportunity

to be really creative.”

- Judy Gold


Papel Picado style hand cut tissue paper banners by inkspired


Let’s have some fun with

Halloween paper dolls!

You can print some on full or half pages

and pass them out to any trick-or-treaters.

Even if they are only ‘family’

all ages can enjoy some vintage cut-up fun.




Dolly Dingle was drawn by Grace Drayton

from 1913 -  1933.

You can read more about her in past blogs,

just search for Dolly Dingle.


A vintage Betsy McCall paper doll page


“Believe nothing you hear,

and only one half that you see.”

- Edgar Allan Poe

Dot’s Halloween Frolic vintage paper doll




Mary Engelbreit’s delightful Ann Estelle paper doll 

with 2 pages of costumes.

These are for private use only.

A page of Sheila Young’s Betty Bonnet paper doll series.


“It’s as much fun to scare

as to be scared.”

- Vincent Price


Thank you to 

good housekeeping.com

for the quotes I have used today.



That’s it for today!

‘Til next time,

inkspired


Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Paper pretties

Hello, and welcome
Spectral zenith by Jen Stark

Today I want to show you some beautiful artwork that is made completely from
PAPER

First, let me feature a few pieces from the gallery of Jen Stark:
Coriolis effect by Jen Stark


'Pedestal' using paper, wood and foamcore by Jen Stark
Radial Reverie by Jen Stark,
only paper has been used
Reciprocal by Jen Stark
made with wood
'Sunken Sediment' by www.jenstark.com

Check out more of her amazing work at the above website!

Next I would like to share another phenomenal paper artist
Peter Callesen

'Castle' by Peter Callesen



'Snowballs' detail, Peter Callesen

'Down the River' by Peter Callesen

'Down the River' detail



I would encourage you to check out his website also!
You will find more of his incredibly detailed paper cuttings,
and some fantastic room sized cuttings!


papercutting from a paper doily

She has many other beautiful papercuttings from doilies, so check out her shop!

The last artist I would like to feature today is
Gerlof Smit

You can go to his website and see the huge undertaking he did
by cutting portraits of each member of his home town
ages 0 - 81
project Schingen, the Netherlands

'Amazement 2' detail by Gerlof Smit

'Plane Tree Leaf' by Gerlof Smit


'little garden' by Gerlof Smit

I hope you have been inspired by these amazing paper artists.
I know I am!

If you have time, I would also recommend:


Very inspiring!

Have you recently done any paper cutting?
Scherensnitte?
Papel Picado?
Wycinaki?
I would love to see your work!

Here are a few of my recent Halloween/Day of the Dead papel picado cuttings:

and

The patterns are courtesy http://www.thetoymaker.com/

With winter weather coming for many of us,
paper cutting is a perfect inside pastime.
They also make super Holiday cards!

Until tomorrow -

inkspired

'Over and Out' by Jen Stark


Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Little Bo Peep Nursery Rhymes with Mother Goose

BAAAAHHH!
(that's sheep talk for Good Morning!)

Little Bo Peep Barbie, 1996


Let' have fun with Little Bo Peep
and her numerous, naughty sheep!


vintage illustration

Little Bo-Peep
Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep,
            And can’t tell where to find them;
Leave them alone, and they’ll come home
            And bring their tails behind them.

Little Bo-Peep fell fast asleep,
            And dreamt she heard them bleating;
But when she awoke, she found it a joke,
            For still they all were fleeting.

Then up she took her little crook,
            Determined for to find them;
She found them indeed, but it made her heart bleed,
            For they’d left all their tails behind ‘em!

It happened one day, as Bo-Peep did stray
            Unto a meadow hard by –
There she espied their tails, side by side,
            All hung on a tree to dry.

She heaved a sigh, and wiped her eye,
            And over the hillocks she raced;
And tried what she could, as a shepherdess should,
            That each tail should be properly placed.

I love this version of Little Bo Peep,
with all the verses!
It's a fun, rhyming ditty
on the life of a little shepherdess,
and a flock of rebellious, forgetful sheep!
 
by Scott Gustafson


Let's try out some scherensnitte with sheep:



from an out-of-print BackStreet Original
Scherensnitte Booklet

Cut this from a pretty blue paper, and then back it with linen white.
Cute!
Perfect for a nursery,
or a sheep farmer,
or shabby chic decorating
or....

another scherensnitte papercutting pattern
of Miss Peep, looking for her sheep....


handmade by gfelted on etsy.com

I always have to play
with my paper dolls -


These are paperdolls from Denmark.
I love her storybook costumes.

These are from a vintage McCall's magazine.
I can't quite read the date, but the note with it says 1925 - 1929.

unknown printing date, vintage song sheet

Of course, no day would be complete
without a little coloring:

Perhaps the little sheep weren't really naughty, they just wandered into a maze like this:


Actually, I think this is just a geometric sakura flower coloring page.
Did I get you to try it out as a maze?
:0)

vintage Little Golden Book of Rhymes & Fairy Tales


I will be out of town for a couple of days, so there won't be blogs for Wednesday
or
Thursday.

Why not have some fun, and browse through my past blogs?!



My husband reminds me I don't have to
write a book in every blog!

A fun little beaded safety pin
pin for you to make.
Look up directions on a previous blog.

You could also use this as a beading pattern -
Use large pony beads if you want.

Or use the little seed beads that I love so much!
You could make several in a row, and turn it into a beaded bracelet.

Next is an example of
Papel Picado
(or Mexican Papercutting):


Have a super-duper couple of days.

 

papel picado

inkspired