Gallery Eight
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Credit Card Wrap
[Extra Credit]
This wrap is a creative excursion. I wanted to see what I could do with all those fake cards that come in the mail. They are glued flat at first. Then I cut them and made an angular sculptural "bow" of cards. The outer edge of the gift is a tissue frame, with a red ribbon. The red bow is made by layering ribbon back and forth, adding a spot of glue on each pass.
Contrast: commercial trash/gift & ribbon. Red/green. Flat/dimensional.
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Mummy Wrap
Irregular-Shape; No Box
I had a roll of crepe paper left over from a birthday party. I wound it around the gift until it was well covered. This makes for an amusing unwrap. I sealed both ends of the wrap with round stickers from my on-going collection of stickers
Contrast: Shiny/dull. crepe-wrinkles/bow textrues. Red/blue & green.
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Collage
Three Piece Solution
This season I used a packet of Japanese paper, small squares of exqusitie paper. I wrapped the gift in white paper. I attached one square off center. I added a strip of black paper as an accent, then used one of the label flowers that came with the Japanese paper.
The design of the collage is assymetrical, repeating the rectangular forms of the box itself.
Contrast: pattern/blank white. Red, black/pastel colors.
Easy: The simplicity of the rectangular collage makes this a quick wrap.
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Collage
Texture Contrast
One piece of Japanese paper. One piece of wrinkly, two-layered, irridescent mylar. A strip of black paper. All on a glossy, shopping-bag wrap.
The design of the collage is assymetrical, repeating the rectangular forms of the box itself.
Contrast: Four very different papers. Deep red/light colors.
Easy: The simplicity of the rectangular collage makes this a quick wrap.
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Collage
3 Piece with Twig
This three piece collage uses one of the Japanese squares, a small scrap of wallpaper, and a twig, all attached to a scrap of Japanese wrapping paper (saved from a gift). I use twigs frequently as the "bow" of the wrap. The natural, sensual nature of the twig adds charm to the chord of materials.
Easy: This is small package, with few pieces.
Contrast: three different patters. Flat/dimensional. Angled collage/rectangular box.
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Collage: Contrast Cap
2 Piece with Twig
The first piece of paper comes from a Japanese small-item shop bag. The second piece is an image of knitted yarn from a brochure. I used a twig as the "bow" of the wrap, detailing the initials in three colors of paint markers.
Easy: This is small package, with few pieces.
Contrast: two different patters. Flat/dimensional. Red/green.
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Collage: Assymetry & Innovation
Wrap Mane
The wrap continues the theme of offset rectangles. A black rectangle is place off-center on a glossy shopping-bag wrap. The square label is place off-center on the black rectangle.
But before I placed the black rectangle, I attached four strips of pale blue ribbon at an angle to the box. They are the "bow".
Easy: This is small package, with few pieces.
Contrast: flat black/ shiny red. Traditional ribbon/non-traditional placement of ribbon.
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Collage: Innovation
Different Materials; New Composition
I achieved a new look and feel with this wrap. It starts with a brown wrap. Then I attached black paper panels on the front and sides, leaving brown paper peeking through. This alone, pasting panels, is a new and useful wrapping tactic I will explore on later packages.
I decided to push it further by adding a veil of plastic sleeving. The first is yellow and forms the vertical band on the right. Then I added a second horizontal band in red.
The label, in bright red with gold paint marker, obeys the square composition in shape and placement
Contrast: flat/ textured.
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Tissue Wrap
Beauty Grass Bow
The material that lines easter baskets is called "beauty grass." A pinch of this and a dot of hot glue makes an effective and unruly "bow" for this wrap.
Easy: The ease of tissue wrap; the speed of a beauty-grass bow.
Contrast: wrinkles/flat. Zebra stripe/flat label. Neat wrap/messy bow.
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