Spring Creativ Festival

Here are some sample of that I made earlier this year for Rypan Designs. All of these beautiful designs are going to be available as kits at the Spring Creativ Festival. Rypan Designs is booth #372. Stop by to see these and other great designs, oh and say hello!

Wisteria

Textured Net with Icy Blue

Textured Net in Tangerine and Blue

Textured Net in Beautiful Lilac

Textured Net in Royal Blue

all images and designs are ©Rypan Designs

Inspiration sources

I am always amazed at what inspires artists, designers and crafters. I am going to try posting regularly about some of my current and past inspiration sources. Along with the pieces I created from them.

One of my current favourite places to go for an inspirational boast is the ROM (Royal Ontario Museum). Here are a few recent pictures I took that are now in my inspiration folder.

From the Teck Galleries -














From the Asian galleries -










From the Art of Collecting exhibit -









Next Friday I will look at one of my inspirations and the piece that it inspired.

Have a great weekend!!

Flat pack origami

For the Paper Arts design of the Designer Style Challenge I am going to do some origami flowers and a vase.

I have made some in the past, including the table centers for a friend's wedding a number of years ago.

For the design I wanted an unusual vase design. Looking thru origami books I came across a book called Unit polyhedoron origami by Tomoko Fuse. It shows how to combine folded shapes to make 3-D objects.

Using triangles, hexagons and connectors I was able to make this.


Here is another view.


I made it with origami paper I already had, so this is not the final colour. I like the general shape of the base, but I am going to modify the height to make it more like a bowl.

Using paper I was able to get at the Paper Place, I am now playing with the colour and texture for the final piece. Smooth shiny silver accented with purple or a crumpled and textured silver accented with purple. Prototypes are in progress.

Challenge of blogging

It has been almost a year since my last post. I have been working on and completing many projects. I just have not been driven to blog about them.

Writing has always been a challenge for me. I had hope that this blog would help me improve and be come more confident. It did work for awhile, but last year I lost the drive to continue.

Well thanks to my mom, who keeps asking me to start again. I am going to work on this again. So it is time to get back to sharing what I have done and will be doing.

Let the blogging begin!