MR L! DON’T LOOK! turn away! begone ! shoo!!

*coughs* anyway -

I love making things, sometime even more than photocopying images. and this is the product of one of those times where i stuck my nose in and insisted that i help to create whatever they where doing..

so this is a joint project. me+suan+gail

photos courtesy of suhuan ^^

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I just love making cards. They’re one of the few things that I can make and give to other people, without feeling sad – probably because when I make them I know I’m not going to keep it. The saddest thing would be finding out the card wasn’t appreciated.

I really started learning pop-ups from a book I bought from Kinokuniya several years back. What I liked about the book was that it covered many different techniques, but what I couldn’t stand was that they had little photographs of master-artists’ own pop-up cards, which were simply exquisite and made me want to make something just like that too! — but they would never say how they did it.. ><

Pop-ups also interest me because other than being creative, at the same time it’s mechanical and technical. After I’ve read the book from cover to cover 10 times over, I pretty much know most of the content, so what keeps me still flipping the book open occasionally is figuring out how the lil’ cards work, the concept behind them, and from there I can create my own (very simple) desgins.

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