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Computer Arts & Crafts

I'm also a paper artist.  I create art with paper.  My tools include pens, ink, rivets, glue, ribbon, and many other objects.  I explore techniques as diverse as orgami to stamping.  As people who know me well, greeting cards are always handmade.

I've also played with the idea of computer arts & crafts -- integrating digital and handmade art.  For example, using a rubber stamp to create an image, scan it, and manipulate it and then use it as part of a paper collage.   I've also used computer arts & crafts ideas when I volunteered as a computer mentor at the computer kids clubs (a long time ago).  I also hope to share some of those projects with my own kids.

So I just had to blog these computer paper arts & crafts!

Here's the pdf you can print out and use to create the 128 Mac.

Happy 5th Birthday!

Here is the invitation Harry and I created for his "Pond, Pumpkin, and Police Party."  Harry created the design, placing the elements I made from paper.  (I, of course, did the paste and production).    Here's the conversation we had about the theme.

Q: Why are there frogs on the invitation?

Harry: Frogs can be found in ponds at Stony Brook. I wanted the little frogs to look like the exploding frogs in The Triplets of Bellville on the top and the bigger frogs to look like they were eating a pumpkin.

Q: Why pumpkins?

Harry: Pumpkins are symbol of October and there are lots of them around. I want my cake to be the 3D shape of a pumpkin.

Q: Why police?

Harry: I wanted a third "P" in the theme and right now I'm totally into rescue heros like policeman.