Creativity Post 1

 Creativity Post 1-

This past week I had to work on a personal project for a friend that was in the hospital, a lot of this personal project involved physical crafts, which I wanted to write up about here on my blog. A lot of my work is done digitally, and I haven't done much cutting and pasting with paper outside of elementary school- so this was quite out of my comfort zone in creating.

Going on Pinterest is an amazing way to browse and gather ideas, you can take what you find and build off of them to create your own personalized gift or diy project, which is what I did in this. Because some of the details are personal I wont go super in depth of the contents of each one, but I will write about some of the things I learned!

Things I made;

2 Custom CD's

A handbound book, all pages custom

A fake postage box (mini) 

Some things I learned:

- Collaging

 I have never collaged before, not with physical magazines or digital content, so again I took to online and found what I could, for this project I mostly used digital collaging, using art programs like Ibis Paint and Autodesk to gather the sizes of my pages and arranging what pictures I found to fit, from here I would cut around, and work out what kinds of layouts I would want on each page, from there I would glue, staple, or even paperclip- as I wanted the book to warp from 3D elements from inside. Below I'll attach some of the pages I made to cut out.

- How to bind a book

 Much like collaging, I've never hand binded a book, unless using staples. After researching online, using ribbon and lacing the pages together looked much better and actually lets the book last much longer (can withstand more than staples). It's super simple to manage, using any tutorial online works, I'll attach one below.

Bind Tutorial!

- How to burn a CD

 This proved much more difficult than the last two, as burning CD's is becoming more and more of a lost technology, none of the devices I had couldn't even support a CD, since they had no port. Luckily my brother had a super ancient Dell laptop that still took CD's. From here we had to hurdle the computers lagginess, but other than that it was super simple, I just used a Spotify to MP3 converter to gather the songs I wanted and transferred them to the older computer in a Zip file. From here we just accessed the Media Player app and the option to burn was available, of course the computer had a bit of a struggle but after QUITE the wait- we had 2 CD's with music!

- How to make a box

 This craft for some reason made me super proud, I found a cute craft where the person made a fake mini parcel, so I eyeballed how they had cut the cardboard and drew up a rough guideline on sketchbook paper (I recommend thicker stock or watercolor paper), cut it out, folded, glued, then reinforced it with painters tape, then BOOM! a little box, which i think would be fun for mockups. Below is a image of a rough sketch I made to make the box and the little makeshift box.