Covered in Glitter and Screaming

I shaved my head for charity two years ago. For a small number of donors I offered thanks in the form of a mystery gift, built around a theme of their choosing. This person's theme was a Misfits album cover, essentially encompassing both music and horror across media platforms. I started with words, and wrote the ABCs of Horror and Punk. But what do do with it? Make it a book. Actually, let's make a pop up book, I've wanted to make one for years. Many thanks to the Pop Up Channel for all the tutorials! Wonderfully helpful and easy to follow. Process photos (and there are a lot of them) can be found in this Imgur gallery . Finished spreads: Once all the pages were done, I followed SeaLemon's YouTube tutorial for making a DIY book press so the glued pages would be flat. Then I followed her video about hardcover bookbinding , mixed a bit with this Sketch blog post about binding specifically for pop up books. All the pages were glued together,...

I shaved my head for charity last year. For a small number of donors I offered thanks in the form of a mystery gift, built around a theme of their choosing. This generous donor's theme was ensō, also described as the  zen circle . The final product is made of card stock with gel pen accents and silver paint in the center. I had a conversation with her once about a number of symbols that were important to her. I started with the symbol she had for herself, and arranged the others to radiate outward. This was a fun challenge! A lot of image research/tracing, a lot of meticulous design, and some arguing with the Cricut about how much detail it would allow me to have in my cut paper shapes. I started with the flowers and hummingbirds, doing research and image tracing as I added each layer. Lots and lots of tweaking, tracing new images and trying them out, changing the number, rotation, and configuration, layer by layer. Shout out to this tutorial for applying layer...