Interstitial Arts Passports
Progress on the Interstitial Arts Exchange Party prep is going quite well. Here's what I have been working on for this past week, and what I finished today:
Interstitial Arts Passports!
The idea is that attendees will get passports and take them around to other attendees to fill them with "stamps" like drawings, haiku, scraps of fabric, stickers, etc. to mark their passage through the interstices.
The small text at the bottom of the passport says:
Imaginary and Real States of the Interstices.
I think I made about a hundred and twenty of them, and I don't really know if that will be enough, but I ran out of red card stock and gold embossing powder, so this is the full extent of my passport making capacity. I may number them. Then they can be all fancy and limited edition like!
To make these, I cut paper and card stock into 4" x 6 1/2" rectangles, stamped them with rubber stamps (the passport and imaginary and real states ones were custom orders, but the leaf I had already), dusted them with gold embossing powder, used the heat tool to magic the powder into shininess (which was really probably not the best plan for a heat wave, but oh well; art hurts), folded them and stapled them with red staples to match the card stock. Each passport has eight pages to fill with travel stamps. I'm really hoping the party attendees run with this idea and make them even more amazing than I can imagine.
Other exciting things we will have include a gorgeous hand drawn and colored map by Sherwood Smith, a Thackery T. Lambshead's Cabinet of Curiosities contest (with prizes for the best curiosities!), and something else I can't quite announce yet, but which I am pretty sure will also be super fun.
So, that's what I'm up to. If you'll be at Readercon, I hope to see you there! If you won't, I'll be sure to take a lot of pictures so you can see what we do.
Interstitial Arts Passports!
The idea is that attendees will get passports and take them around to other attendees to fill them with "stamps" like drawings, haiku, scraps of fabric, stickers, etc. to mark their passage through the interstices.
The small text at the bottom of the passport says:
Imaginary and Real States of the Interstices.
I think I made about a hundred and twenty of them, and I don't really know if that will be enough, but I ran out of red card stock and gold embossing powder, so this is the full extent of my passport making capacity. I may number them. Then they can be all fancy and limited edition like!
To make these, I cut paper and card stock into 4" x 6 1/2" rectangles, stamped them with rubber stamps (the passport and imaginary and real states ones were custom orders, but the leaf I had already), dusted them with gold embossing powder, used the heat tool to magic the powder into shininess (which was really probably not the best plan for a heat wave, but oh well; art hurts), folded them and stapled them with red staples to match the card stock. Each passport has eight pages to fill with travel stamps. I'm really hoping the party attendees run with this idea and make them even more amazing than I can imagine.
Other exciting things we will have include a gorgeous hand drawn and colored map by Sherwood Smith, a Thackery T. Lambshead's Cabinet of Curiosities contest (with prizes for the best curiosities!), and something else I can't quite announce yet, but which I am pretty sure will also be super fun.
So, that's what I'm up to. If you'll be at Readercon, I hope to see you there! If you won't, I'll be sure to take a lot of pictures so you can see what we do.