Showing posts with label letters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label letters. Show all posts

Thursday, June 2, 2011

The Tiny Letters and Tiny Box

As I said, I soon realized I had to make all the letter in one go otherwise I couldn't remember how I had done them. Ah duh.. so, as they say, I pressed on. Got all the letters done, then had to figure out how to display them. For some reason I wanted them on one sheet of paper, which I knew could be cut and folded, so after some experimentation came up with a plan. Ops, forgot a letter [in my next life I am going to be able to spell, PLEASE], finally printed on heavy paper and folded. Another problem, the white of the paper shows at the folds, no problem paint it; white paper shows up on all the cut edges, no problem paint the edges. By this time I figured I needed another solution. Print on coloured paper. That works, but by now I realize the letters are the wrong size. They need to be 5 cm. and me, not reading the directions thoroughly, have made them 5 in. Re print, all is good. Now I want to make a box for these tiny letter to live in. Wrestle with that as I realize a 5.5 cm box is seriously tiny and I have large hands. and so I attached tiny covers to the tiny letters to make a tiny book that may or may not live inside a tiny portfolio. 


Well I finally got my fingers back, meaning the glue I used to build the tiny box has worn off. John says he sandpapers the glue off his fingers [he builds model boats] but that seemed a bit drastic to me. So now the tiny alphabet has a cover and I think I stop here. I feel like I am working in dollhouse size and I am the giant, but there are some things that I don't feel are quite resolved. I would like a simpler solution, and what I find the most pleasing is the folded paper with the letters, so it's back to the studio. Maybe each letter wants to be a cube, that is the latest plan. Could change, it often does. Besides there is another alphabet to create.


Tardy letters

And tardy Liz. So sorry all for getting way behind in my posting. Like Anna, I need to work right through a project so the letters has been done for a while, where they have been sitting in their file on the computer waiting....waiting....waiting. Thanks for the timely reminder Fiona and the letters say thanks too. So here we go, I'm going to post ALL the rest of the letters, then I'll post their tiny box. Love playing with the shapes of the letters!
m, n, o, p
q, r, s, t,
u, v, w, x
y,z

Friday, February 25, 2011

e,f,g,h

This is fun. I now know I need to do all the letters in one go if I am going to remember how I did it. This becomes quite a challenge if I don't make notes. Hmmm, note to self, make notes. Hmmm, note to self, find notes.
e, f, g, h, Liz Davidson