“A Pile of Leaves” by Jason Fulford and Tamara Shopsin
This board e-book is one which feels extra explicit the second you open it and perceive what it is. The format is revolutionary in that each net web page is obvious with plenty of silhouettes of leaves or devices. The influence of all the clear collages stacked gives the illusion of a pile of leaves and it is so neat!
One different pleasing side of this little e-book is that as you flip the pages and “dig by the use of the leaf pile” there are a few surprises that you just uncover and “uncover” similar to an ant or two. It’s a sort of books that makes you assume “I can’t contemplate no person has thought of this sooner than!”
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Leaf Collage Photo voltaic Catchers
This e-book rang a bell in my memory of how clear contact paper is so widespread for collages and photo voltaic catchers correct now so I immediately thought of how pleasing it might be to re-create this e-book in a method and make some “pile of leaf” frames of our private! It labored like a attraction and the result is a further literal mannequin of the e-book, merely missing the ants and one other pleasing goodies. Nonetheless, the finished product nonetheless works good for stacking and chances are you’ll create a “pile of leaves” illusion of your particular person.
We had quite a bit pleasing gathering our leaves for this problem and it took merely minutes to create. They seem so pretty on our dwelling home windows and it is good to have just a bit little little bit of Autumn in our dwelling. I moreover love that it is so easy that even the smallest artists can participate, however attention-grabbing enough to captivate older artists as successfully.
And, bonus, whenever you make plenty of collages then chances are you’ll stack them on excessive of each other to create your particular person “pile of leaves” with an influence very similar to the one throughout the e-book! What’s to not love?!
Gives:
- roll or sheet of clear contact paper (2 squares scale back out for each craft)
- leaves (We used dry leaves so that they crunched and broke a bit when pressed. You might as nicely use current leaves or pressed leaves if you would like a “cleaner” remaining consequence. Actually, you’ll even use paper leaves or silk leaves!)
- pleasing wash tape (or any tape really for the edging)
Course of:
- Lay a sq. of you contact paper out on a bit flooring sticky side up.
- Place leaves randomly throughout the contact paper to the sticky flooring.
- Place the second sq. of contact paper on excessive of the first one sticky side down and press so that it adheres to the other contact sq. sheet with the leaves securely in-between. Clear it out as best as chances are you’ll.
- Use washi tape folded over the edges of all 4 sides to offer a cleaner look.
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