Craftside: Using words on my Sizzix die cut cake box using Lab 47 from the book Collage Lab: Experiments, Investigations, and Exploratory Projects

Using words on my Sizzix die cut cake box using Lab 47 from the book Collage Lab: Experiments, Investigations, and Exploratory Projects

I am participating in a design collective with a whole bunch of other designers to see what we all come up with and this is my latest design using Lab 47 from the enormously helpful book Collage Lab. I was stumped as to how I was going to decorate my cake box at first but Collage Lab to the rescue!

This is a cake box die cut and what words came to mind was the phrase "You can't have your cake and eat it too".

So I decided to stamp the first part of the saying on the top of the cake box and the second half of the saying on the bottom.

You can vote for your favorite cake box design at www.eileenhull.blogspot.com, it will enter you to win the Sizzix die!

This is LAb 47, using words in your collage. Click on the pages to enlarge and read all the helpful and inspiring words on using word in your design.

They really helped me!

Want 51 other labs to give your creativity a direction when it doesn't know what direction to go? (Kind of like a Google maps for creativity?) Grab a copy of:

Collage Lab:

Experiments, Investigations, and Exploratory Projects

Bee Shay

Collage Lab offers artists and crafters a fun and experimental approach to making art. The book is organized into 52 different labs which may, but don't need to be explored on a weekly basis. The labs can be worked in any order, so that readers can flip around to learn a new mixed-media technique or be inspired by a particular collage theme or application.

The underlying message of this book is that artists can and should learn and gain expertise through experimentation and play. There is no right or wrong result for a given exercise, yet, readers will gain skills and confidence in collage techniques, allowing them to take their work to a new level.

Collage Lab is illustrated with brilliant full-color images and multiple examples of each exercise, offers a visual, non-linear approach to learning art techniques, and reinforces a fun and fearless approach to making art.

Bee Shay is a print maker, collage and mixed media artist, and longtime instructor. She has contributed to magazines, including the Artistic Stenciler and Somerset Studio. Her work has also been featured in several Quarry Books including:True Vision ,Collaborative Art Journals and Shared Visions in Mixed Media, The Creative Entrepreneur, and Re-Bound. Bee lives with her husband in the Philadelphia area and is mother of three beautiful souls. When she's not inciting the muse in her students or working in her barn studio she lovingly calls her nest, she can be found roaming outside seeking the wonders of the natural world for inspiration.