Gallery Four
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Shopping Bag Collage
Material Variety
The paper for this package was a gray shopping bag which had a white "label" imprinted with the retailer's logo. I made a small, 3-piece collage on this imprint. I added the recipient's initials. Then I wrapped a piece of gauze ribbon in a spiral around the package. The finished wrap had a stimulating variety of textures, with subdued, tasteful coloring.
Contrast: transparency/solids. Angles/rectagles. Bright colors/grays.
Easy: no fancy drawing, just add single strokes until it is filled up.
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Folded Foil-Paper Ribbon & Label
Wrapping Paper Fragments
Foil paper folds easily. The resulting paper has a delightful embossed feel to it. I made a gold foil holly-paper label, writing the name with paint markers. After I glued it on the red foil wrap, I made a "ribbon" of green foil paper and taped it on the back. This wrap uses actual wrapping paper.
Contrast: red/green. Mettalic/non-metalic. Pattern/solid.
Easy: There is a pleasure to grabbing small fragments and putting them to service quickly. I used tape to assemble this; the gold-foil square is held by piecs of rolled tape.
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Fast Ribbon Wrap
for the Small Package
Two kinds of ribbon are wrapped around this gold-foil small package. First I taped a piece of blue ribbon on the back and wound it around many times till it was ready to tape again on the back. Then I did the same quick spiral technique using a piece of gold cord. I finished with a round office-supply sticker, to carry the intitals of the recipient.
Contrast: woven cord/flat ribbon. Light gold/ dark blue
Easy: Ribbon wraps are one the quicker tacatics in the wrap artist's repertoire.
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Brown Wrap
Gauze Contrast
This wrap relies on the contrast of rough brown industrial paper with white gauze ribbon. I had saved this ribbon with the bow intact: the wrap artist saves time by conserving. The label was made with computer-label paper; the image was from our home-made Christmas card.
Contrast: dressy gauze/ industrial brown paper.
Easy: Recycled bow. Recycled art.
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Contrast Cap
Two Fragments
This little package gains remarkable visual power from its contrasting papers. A black office-supply dot serves as its label.
Contrast: Photo pattern/ graphic pattern. Red/green.
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