{"id":50,"date":"2012-02-10T04:00:49","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T04:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nancylangford.com\/?page_id=50"},"modified":"2012-04-02T17:28:47","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T22:28:47","slug":"boxes-other-creations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nancylangford.com\/?page_id=50","title":{"rendered":"Boxes & Other Creations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boxes and Towers<\/span><\/h3>\n

Once I really got into marbling paper, I quickly arrived at the point where I had many more sheets than I could possibly use for my books.
\nI\u00a0first\u00a0started making note cards, but that meant marbling on card stock, which isn’t appropriate for books. \u00a0So instead of reducing the amount of paper I had, I was creating more!
\nSeveral years ago, I took a course at the John C. Campbell Folk School<\/a> in which we had made boxes from paste papers. \u00a0For Valentine’s Day the following year, I made everyone in my family boxes \u00a0filled with candies. \u00a0That was the extent of my box making until a friend saw one in my studio and I gave it to her. \u00a0She immediately asked me to make some for her grandchildren in their favorite colors. \u00a0She filled them with jewelry and goodies for presents. Thus was born the Treasure Tower.<\/p>\n

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I love the challenge of putting three or four different papers together. \u00a0Because marbled papers are so individual, this can be very hard. \u00a0Colors from one marbling session frequently don’t match the same colors from a different time. \u00a0My penchant for using colored papers doesn’t help as it radically changes colors. \u00a0I have been using a lot of vintage papers and founds papers like menus and maps in my towers just because they are fun.<\/p>\n\n\t\t