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Sanrio Event Pictures!

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Finally!!

All of my pictures from the Sanrio Small Gift LA Show!
I tried to take pictures of all of the art, but I don't have all of the artists names.
If you contact Jamie at JapanLA she will have that info.
Also art is still available for sale at JapanLA!

Happy New Year!

Also happy late new year guys!
I will be posting more regularly again now that I have my work schedule under control....FOR NOW...DUN DUN DUN!!!

<3!!!

COASTERS!!

I almost forgot.
I had coasters made for the show too!
Available at Leanna Lin's Wonderland

Also many thanks for Bryan at Re-Opening for his laser magic.

Thanks to Ms. Leanna Lin for the top photo from her lovely store.

Tigerbunny Paper Toys and Shadow Box

So I decided to do a breakdown of how I made the paper toys for the Tigerbunny show!

First Melissa had told me the theme was Tigerbunny and that she wanted to collaborate on something together! We weren't sure at this time what products we were going to make so I just decided to draw my own interpretation of Tigerbunny girls.

We had decided on paper toys! So I did rough sketches based on how I thought about constructing them. I knew I was going to do the head similar to the My Melody toys I did for the Sanrio show. And the 8 paneled paper ball thing always ends up looking cute so I made that into a skirt. I decided that it should be flat on the bottom though so that the toys could sit without supports. So I styled the skirt similar to how the bun is constructed for the hamburger in the Paper Wonderland book.

Then I made super rough templates in Illustrator.

I built the rough templates out and drew where I wanted to add arms, legs, face details, tab supports, etc.

Then I broke down the toys so that I could see how to draw the templates and where to place the cut marks to add pieces to the template.

I combined my artwork and the rough templates to create refined templates to run through the vinyl cutter. I use the vinyl cutter when I am making layered paper toys because I can not cut out the super fine details. For the printed toys I usually just cut by hand. I passed the template to Melissa so that she could add her artwork to the blank templates.

The printed versions look like this!

Which are available for sale at Leanna Lin's Wonderland

The layered cut versions look like this!

The tiny piece assembly can be hard. Tweezers and glue!

My husband made the shadow box for me, which is a wooden box, with a picture frame as the door for the front.

The background inside is also layered cut paper.
The detail on the back and inside the glass are stickers.

This is also available for sale at Leanna Lin's Wonderland!

Axelhoney / TigerBunny Show!

Melissa Contreras, also known as Axelhoney asked me if I would collaborate with her on her Tigerbunny show! I love that lady, she has always been the nicest and I totally heart her artwork.
We made paper toys and a shadow box together that I will post about in another entry soon!

Here is the info for the show:

Tigerbunny

Artwork and Collaborations by Axelhoney & Friends
Saturday January 8th-February 6th

Leanna Lin's Wonderland

5024 Eagle Rock Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90041

I also had the pleasure of meeting Leanna who is super duper awesome. Her shop is the cutest. ALSO JUST BLOCKS FROM MY HOUSE - Rad. I love Eagle Rock.

Here are some pictures from the opening. Sorry for the poor quality - they are just phone pics. Waahh - there are better pictures on Leanna Lin's blog!

For more info. on the art click here!
For more info. on the popup art click here!