Chinese New Year (the year of the dragon) is celebrated on Monday the 23rd, and to help celebrate, I'm going to do a whole week's worth of craft projects inspired by the orient. To get started, I looked at ways to turn a group of names into a piece of art. Here's what I came up with;
- Cut letters of each name out of an old magazine (I recommend you look for letters the same colour; I chose red, black and white.)
- On a piece of plain or textured A5 card, arrange the letters coming down the page, not across.
- If one of the names is too long, see if you can re-size it with smaller letters, or continue the name as a new column coming down beside the first.
- Once you are content the names fit, glue them down.
- Frame the picture in frameless glass cover, and set it up for all to view.
Alternatively - instead of writing family or friends' names, spell out a favorite phrase, or saying. You could also try the same idea with letter-stamps instead of cutouts.
Don't forget there are Oriental Printpapers for purchase on my shop-site, and lots of other ideas to get you inspired.