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hippo fait des trucs's avatar

Envelope interiors are to be kept, I keep all the papers too and now I don't have enough space for more. But 2025 is the year when I will do more collage hopefully 🤞

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Kayla Stark's avatar

Those interiors were just hiding in plain sight all this time! A secret treasure!

And I hope you do collage this year!

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hippo fait des trucs's avatar

Thank you!

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Erika Tovi's avatar

I’m too scared to see the film, but your piece is so creative!! Do you have your papers and saved scraps organized somehow or are they in random heaps? 😆 I used to keep everything but I’ve moved a lot and it became too cumbersome to lug around. 😬

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Kayla Stark's avatar

Thank you!!!! Ha, I used to be waaaay too scared to watch horror movies, but then something happened and I got curious.

Nope, I just have all of my scraps in a bag. haha I do try to keep like things together, (envelopes, cards, palettes, etc.)

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Becca Leisen's avatar

This is incredible and I absolutely love the final piece

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Kayla Stark's avatar

THANK YOU!!! I totally wasn't expecting to make it and surprised myself ha

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Cathy Ballou Mealey's avatar

Ooo your final piece gave me the chills! I am too chicken to see the movie but I did love watching your process unfold!

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Kayla Stark's avatar

Thank you!!! I set out thinking "this is going to be such a serious, moody piece" and then I added that rat with eyes and it all went out the window, lolol. That rat is too self aware.

If you wanted to listen to a podcast called "too scary didn't watch" they'll walk you through it and you get some behind the scenes info too!

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Cathy Ballou Mealey's avatar

Love that!

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Michelle Lin's avatar

It was inspiring to see your process and use of hoarded paper! I'm a paper hoarder too! I have paper that my husband gave me 16 years ago when we started dating 😆 And I save security envelopes too, as well as receipts from the countries I've traveled to (among many other things)!

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Kayla Stark's avatar

Thank you! Oh receipts and papers from travel is such a good idea! I have a few things in a different drawer from travels and now I think I want to move them to my paper collage stash!

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Michelle Lin's avatar

I love that you have kept papers from travels too! Just a word of warning, some receipts do lose their ink after a few years (thinking of some of mine from 2015 that I found recently 😆) so don't wait on all of those!

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Jane's avatar

Another fellow hoarder here. Love seeing how this came together.

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Kayla Stark's avatar

Thank you!!! I knew there were more of us out there! :)

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Eloise's avatar

Every part of this is a delight, including the extremely Leo Lionni handmade paper, collective rat noun, and the definition of cinnamon broom (which to me sort of defy definition/purpose).

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Kayla Stark's avatar

😂😂😂 THANK YOU!

I think the cinnamon brooms put a spell on shoppers. I'll throw one in the cart but when I'm home with it, I'm thinking..."what am I actually doing?"

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Jen Gubicza's avatar

I love every bit of this post! Also a collector, hoarder, saver, preparer person when it comes to materials, so I get it. It’s so thrilling to be able to say, “Oh! I have that. I’ve saved it for ten years for just this moment!” haha. Also: I adore this piece of yours. Really captures the mood from the film, too.

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Kayla Stark's avatar

Thank you!!! Yes it's such a FLEX to have saved the exact thing you need! Ah every scene was so beautiful! I almost went with the scene in the forest when the carriage is quickly, but silently approaching.

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Devon Holzwarth's avatar

So incredible, Kayla! I’m just finishing a book partly made of cut up paper and I didn’t have ENOUGH stashed paper so ended up making endless textures on my own. So yes to keeping all the paper haha.

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Kayla Stark's avatar

Thank youuuuu!

Ahhhh that sounds like a nightmare!! 😅 And to have to try and replicate it!!!? How did it go?

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Devon Holzwarth's avatar

It’s really such a fantastic piece, the mood! - so in love with the dimension you get from cut paper! PB has gone quite well, very happy - having some beautiful patterns from envelopes would have been lovely - must keep an eye out for those. I ended up using a lot of rice papers and painting/printing on them. Such a lengthy process but worth the time.

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Kayla Stark's avatar

Thank you! Yes, the shadows and edges in collage, I think of it as such a low effort/high impact effect!

Oooooh I bet the rice paper layers beautifully too! 😍 You've been killing it! I feel like every time I see another book from you it levels up!

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Jen Russell's avatar

Fellow paper hoarder (have collected 20 years of security envelopes, always get excited when I find a new pattern!) reporting for duty 🤣 gotta love a piece of art that smells good, too! Your rats are adorable and this is a fantastic use of scraps.

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Kayla Stark's avatar

Thank yoooooouuuuu! Big fan of rats over here! haha

When I realized the security envelopes had those patterns...it was over...they have me in a chokehold now. haha

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Amanda Anez's avatar

I love the rats on your piece!

I confess as a paper hoarder...also a daily note/list maker so the plain scraps go to that use.

junk mail envelopes I haven't used for art yet but I use them to save garden seeds. Have started making mini collages to pin on a vision board in my office as a low stakes way to use fun paper scraps. I work in a print shop and anytime I trim bleeds off a piece and the "junk" paper is more than a couple inches wide I save it....for what, I do not yet know hahaha.

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Kelsey Ó Ciardha's avatar

Somewhere in my basement is a box of hundreds (thousands?) of childhood stickers I never stuck on anything because that's just the kind of kid I was 😂. Maybe they'll have their glory day at some point.

What a fun piece! You're inspiring me to do more collage...

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