Black Ink Papers
The Sunday Paper #82
Sponsored Paper of the Week: Black Ink Papers
I’m delighted to be featuring these papers for many of the projects I’ve designed for the 25 Days of Paper.
Black Ink Papers from Graphic Products Corporation (GPC), is one of the art industry’s most recognized brands, offering artists and crafters a vast selection of over 700 handmade and machine made papers imported from around the world. Focusing on the ever-changing color trends and needs of the creative end user, GPC works ongoing with designers, artisans and suppliers to accomplish its line of beautifully unique and often one-of-a-kind papers.
In addition to offering one of the largest selections of creative papers in the art world, GPC Papers is proud to say that many of their papers are eco-friendly, being primarily made from highly renewable, sustainable, and regenerative resources such as plants, bushes, and natural by-products which are native to each country. These “tree-free” resources include the mulberry (kozo) bush from Thailand and South Korea, the banana, hemp and bamboo plants from Thailand, the lokta (daphne) bush in Nepal, the papyrus plant from Egypt, the abaca, salago (lupa) plants from the Philippines, as well as amate bark (from jonote, mulberry and xalama) from Mexico. GPC papers from India are made from recycled cotton rag originating from the garment industry, as well as some papers from the banana plant. Handmade papers use far less energy to produce than conventional machine made papers, with many using solar energy to dry the papers.
Uses for GPC papers include a multitude of applications such as mixed media/collage, encaustic art, fine art, chine-colle, paper arts and crafts, origami, kite making, mobiles, art jewelry, screen printing, block printing, book arts, framing, matting, custom invitations, home décor, room dividers, lamp shades, lanterns, wall paper, gift wrapping, card making, elegant packaging, photography backgrounds, retail displays, menus and more!
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In the Studio: After assembling the 25 Days of Paper Packages this week, I ended up with a pile of lovely paper scraps which I’m guessing you might be able to turn into a work of art. So, I’ve decided to host a Giveaway that will include these scraps plus a 25 Days of Paper Package. Enter to win by leaving a comment on this post (be sure to leave a way for me to contact you, too). A winner will be drawn at random and announced on Wednesday November 25th. Good luck!
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Check out 12-year old New Zealander Joseph Simes‘ amazing origami work. Be sure the scroll through the images of his work.
I wonder if this young man is interested in making a living with his work. Ross Symons of Cape Town has that dialed into his origami inspired lifestyle. Watch out, you’re going to lose a bit of time as you get sucked down this rabbit hole (well worth it)!
I’m excited for Kyle Olmon (a project contributor for my book Playing With Pop-Ups). He’s engineered two holiday cards that are currently in the MoMA store. Festive Dinner Table (pictured below) and Winter Flowers. Who’s on your list?
There is some mystery surrounding this old trunk of unopened letters that was bequeathed to the Museum voor Communicatie in The Hague in 1926. It is a repository of materials from across Europe that provides researchers with a variety of paper, matching enclosures, seals, postal marks, folds, and hands that demand particular scrutiny. The letters thus offer an extremely rare opportunity to scholars of early modern history, material culture, paper, and postal systems.
Here’s a story on Artsy about the paper pulp paintings that Daniel Heidkamp has been making at Pace Prints.
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About our Sponsor: To find a Black Ink retailer near you please visit the Locate a Retailer link. If the paper you are looking for is not available from your local retailer, you can always order from the online store. Browse the entire line of papers here. For examples of creative uses visit the Creative Idea Center.
Want to share photos of your Black Ink paper creations on the GPC Papers Facebook Page? Please email them to info@gpcpapers.com using the subject line: Please Post on Facebook.
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88 Comments
Please enter my name in the Black Ink Papers and 25 Days of Paper giveaway..
maybe I’ll get lucky and win.
I’m looking forward to my paper package projects for the holidays. Something to share with my granddaughters. And put me in the draw! Thanks
Helen, those scraps are calling to me! Sign me up! Pupton58 at gmail dot com
Sign me up Helen…one can never have too much paper!
Melinda
zooplustwo@gmail.com
Helen–Entering into this Thanksgiving week, I’m grateful for your inspirational blog which magically shows up in my email every Sunday! Please sign me up for the “scraps” drawing. If I win I’ll enjoy incorporating them into my collages. Just discovered the use of methyl cellulose to help adhere things to wet paper. Happy Thanksgiving!
Enjoy this post OP, however, I would extremely much appeicrate it in case you could embed a relevant video clip and also for some reason when i open this web page in Chrome, it appears not similar to although i do it with Opera.
Oh oh da kan til og med jeg klare Ã¥ være med, nÃ¥r det er sååå lang frist… Synes for øvrig du har gjort en imponerende jobb jeg med alle dine alonger og greier 🙂
Slam dunkin like Shaquille O’Neal, if he wrote informative articles.
What a beautiful and magical day we had together! Carla, you are such a gorgeous, talented and generous person. Thank you so much for this gift. I will always treasure the memories of this special time spent with my precious parents, the delightful and gifted makeup artist Veronique, and wonderful you!Thank you from the bottom of my heart,Felicity xoxo
i love when you find these hidden treasures 🙂 and eeps! when i saw this post in my blogger dashboard i thought you had shaven the side of your head, but i doooo think you could pull it off ;)KeepItFvncy,M.E.
Hi Sir Edmar, We sent you a message at your email address. Let us know if you have questions and your preferred schedule for our site visit. Thank you. God bless.
hola!! felicidades por las notas! para mi fue la primera vez que asisto a un Congreso de este tipo y fue una gran experiencia! Felicidades por el gran trabajo!
Fantastic achievement. Start hitting the free weights hard the more muscle you build the more fat you will melt away. Ask you Dr to check your Testosterone levels too. It’s amazing how much better you’ll feel? if you get some Test. Supps
Gratulerer! En riktig god følelse, jeg ser du har lagt om livsstilen.. det er nok veien å gå om en vil gå varig ned i vekt. Lykke til videre. ;D
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Looking at that paper stash makes me salivate…what possibilities…what inspiration! Would love my name entered in your draw!
Thanks for sharing!
Scrumptious issue! Thanks for a fun issue. Please enter me in the giveaway.
Another fun post, thank you! Please enter me in the drawing.
So looking forward to spending the holidays with the grandchildren making the the 25 days projects, it’s in the mail. If we win this, so much the better! Email above…will that do for contact info?
Concernant le niveau de la dette, les chiffres retenus par N. Sarkozy sont les chiffres officiels où on compare le 31/12/2007 au 31/12/2011; or, la dette continue de courir et courait aussi en 2007 d&ƒruqo;oÃs¹, àmon sens, le chiffre avancé par F. Hollande des 600 milliards d’euros.
I’m looking forward to my paper package and a chance to try paper in new ways. Please enter me in the Black Friday Giveaway. Thanks!
Please enter me in the Black Friday Giveaway! Lots of inspiration for some book editions!
Saw the Festive Dining Table Card at the De Young Museum shop the other day. we were entranced by it (but not so fond of the front of the card)
Please enter me in the paper scraps giveaway. Love the 12-yr-old origami master
Another wonderful Sunday Paper, Helen. I look forward to it each week, such great stories and inspiration for Paper People. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.
Ooh, yes please, would love to win your beautiful scraps! And I could share the set of projects with my daughter, so we can make them together, even though long distance. Thanks for all you do Helen!
Yummy, yummy, yummy! What luscious possibilities–I would love to be in the running for such a generous surprise. Thank you!
Sign me up. The papers are gorgeous
Katy madisonw@q.com
How exciting. I love the Sunday Paper, especially since it’s the only one I receive. Thanks and sign me up too please. Csauter@comcast.net
Love your blog, Helen – and I think it’s my turn to win. Do you take bribes?
What a wonderful blog you write! I’m hoping to win the black ink drawing. Thanks for all you do!!!!
You’ve definitely inspired me to explore paper. Last night I dreamed that it was Paper Week in Austin and I had a paper shopping passport. Paper on!
What fun it would be to win the scraps! Love your Sunday Paper blog.
Ok I’ll bite.
Interesting paper company and interesting young man.
I love trying to win something! What fun and thank you !
Thank you for the opportunity to enter the giveaway for scraps and a paper package! Please contact me via my email.
I am living in the Netherlands and I am also fond of everything connected with paper. I am working with it as well. Everytime I am enjoying your “papernews”. I hope to be the lucky one to win your wonderful papers and packet. Greetings from Holland Sonja
Every paper-lover has a stash of scraps for that “little bit of something” needed for a project. Your 25 Days of Paper series is amazing. Thanks for the chance to enter!
oooooooooooh…pretty paper scraps, for a paper hoarder a dream come true. I’ve climbed out of that rabbit hole (White on Rice)and the BACON BAR CURTAIN -wow in time I hope to be included in the contest! .. Great Sunday Paper…something for everyone … hugs ..marycleto@aol.com
Please enter my name n the drawing. Thanks, Wyn Flo
your papers are incredible! i am so excited about those old letters! and the fact that someone is studying them not only for their content (do they feel like they’re a little voyeuristic i wonder?) but also for the calligraphy, the paper, the markings, the wax seals…EVERYTHING! i imagine that would be thee coolest job ever. thank you for the generous giveaway and for always inspiring…even though i can come nowhere near the work you do, i am crazy looking at it.
This barn has wihottsod many storms over the years and I bet you will too.Nice shot but I must say while the fussed with one is ok I do like the original best. MB
There must be, and I hope won’t be, any suggestion that Ordinariate Catholics are in any way second class Catholics. There is only one type of Catholic – one in communion with the See of Rome. The Latin Rite is, historically, so important and wonderful, but it is not the whole of the Catholic Church. Pope Benedict is the Pope of Christian unity – multos annos.
Vote for Pedro. Hmmmmm….that reminds me of a movie I once saw. Good site review. We all need some constructive criticism if we want to be successful, online and in life. Pedro – The Cow knows his stuff. I’d take what he has to say and run with it.
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I don’t like Bannan’s floated corners either. But Albrighton did them exactly the same against Norwich so I think PL probably wants the corners to be taken like that.
April, what wonderful pictures! You really captured Tristan in all his glory. I love the panoramic of him, running with the stick. He is so enjoying his moment. We could all learn some thing from this photo. My personal favorite is the first shot of Tristan. He truly looks aristocratic. His face is telling us that he came from a line of kings. Pat yourself on the back, you do great work!!!
Olá DéboraCarnaval não é só cervejada, drogas e mulheres peladas e nem todos perdem a cabeça. Sou Presidente de uma escola de samba no interior de Minas a 14 anos e tudo ocorre de forma diferente da sua opinião, que respeito mas não concordo. Já consegui tirar muitos da bebedeira e houve até um caso de cura de depressão.Carnaval é pura diversão sadia e arte.Não generalize!Um forte abraço!
Can we now see some of the reason why the ruling class has resorted to buying private jets? The whole airline industry is in a mess. Richard Branson came here with some ideas but the same enemies of progress frustrated him out of the country
Le thème de l’article me semble plus large que le seul problème de GM, le titre de l’article le reflète d’ailleurs.Le choix de Peugeot (s’il s’agit d’un choix d’ailleurs) ne me semble pas absurde, surtout vu l’actualité de la semaine…
recently he was surprised no Dick cult (so to speak) ever arose (so to speak) and he was surprised by that, given old Elron’s penchant for cult rites and all that. I think he sort of did play around with that in his book written in collaboration with Roger Zelazny, and it had something to do with cows and was very silly.On third thought, I think this episode should be called San Pedro Hallucinogenic Cactus Enema. I hope Don comes back again, it was very fun to listen to you two shoot the bullshit (bullshit in the positive sense).
Can I sleep-through it and wake up when it is summer again? I'd move to Arizona, but then I'd have to summer in the Arctic.The ancient's worshipped the sun and fire for a reason – the Zoroastrians fire because up there in the Caucasus above Persia where they originated, there's places so chock-full of hydrocoarbons that it erupts forth up from the ground in flames – a burning bush you ask? Hell they had burning dirt, and then someone invented the notion of Hell as a flaming pit…
Beautiful paper and lovely projects!
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Just joining all of the fun of the world of paper. I have been an illustrator and now I am ready to be a “cut-up.”
I have two friends who are masters at it: Sally Blakemore and Alex Fischer. I am ready to add the third dimension to my artwork. Sign me up for the drawing.
Love from you Godmother, too here in Santa Fe.
Love your blog! Would love to win! Thank you for all your opportunities to learn about the variety of art work you feature on your blog.
I would love to win these beautiful papers!
Please enter me in the drawing…I am eager for the projects to begin
I think other website proprietors should take this website as an model, very clean and excellent user pleasant style and design . “He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he th182s.&#n2ki; by Francois de La Rochefoucauld.
I am ready to start! Got my papers in the mail yesterday and they look great. I also went to the Black Ink Paper site and found all sorts of stuff for future projects. I never met a scrap I didn’t like (or use, sometime, some day), so please enter me in the drawing!
Would love to be in the drawing for your magical paper pack – love the festive vibe of them!
I definitely have some handmade books I can insert these lovely papers into, Helen! (Hi from Portland!) Please enter me into the drawing. Love your blog!
xoxo
You are so inspiring and these papers are too! Thank you for your weekly blog and facebook posts.
After I originally commented I clicked the -Notify me when new comments are added- checkbox and now every time a remark is added I get four emails with the same comment. Is there any means yo2l8#u17;&l be able to remove me from that service? Thanks!
I look forward to your blog. Please enter me in your drawing. thanks
Thanks your for that post on Joseph Simes and his origami work. Wow! Please sign me up for the paper giveaway.
Hi Helen,
Just received my paper pack yesterday and love the paper. It’s also a great way to preview Black Ink paper before ordering from their website. Looking forward to next week.
Please sign me up for your drawing.
Sally
I love your emails. Now look forward to the blog. My dog looks just like yours. Meet you at the Edwards pond next summer.
Have never tried Black Ink paper, interesting site though. This would be a great way to try them out..
looking forward to the 25 days!
Pick a Pack of Pretty Papers! I hope I am lucky enough to receive one. Love your site Helen.
The papers look great…I can see using some for paper beads. I’m looking forward to the 25 days of paper projects…my papers arrived yesterday.
your paper is so lovely. i’m enamored with the art of snail mail and would love to write a letter on those pages. please enter me for the drawing of said scraps. thanks thanks!
Received my paper pack in the mail yesterday! Thank you for the quick response. Please enter my name in the scrap giveaway!
Helen, I love your site and my mind is already creating ideas for the scraps and the 25 Days of Paper package. PLEASE enter me in the drawing!
Thank you.
This is what the sanctions against Iran has done. The blood of the passengers is on the hands of former NY congressman Al D&ta712;Am8#o and the Israel lobby who were the prime movers behind the Iran sanctions, and continue to lobby to deprive Iran of access to new planes.
Please enter me into your giveaway please!
Thank you for your giveaway. I would love to win the papers and kit.I would love a crafting challenge vs.a shopping challenge. Thank you Helen!
Would love the papers and would use them to make accordion books with my summer school children. My sisters and I are so excited to be reaching across the USA to celebrate the holidays artfully, lovingly, collectively while still being miles apart with your help and your beautiful projects!
Helen, your work continues to look absolutely fabulous, and your newsletters are such a source of pleasure and inspiration for me! I’ve recently started teaching myself to make origami and tessellations and would love to have a bunch of new paper to play with!
I am haunting the mailbox waiting for my paper package. SCRAPS!!!! Ooooo, how wonderful. 🙂
One can never have too much paper!
Hi Helen,
Thank you for your blog and paper inspiration. Sign me up for the drawing for scraps.
Happy Holidays!
Julia Garretson
I cant wait to get my package and to start creating paper art on December with you. I am thankful for meeting incredible artists that inspire me everyday. I am hoping on 2016 to be able to travel and attend one of your workshops.
Have a great thanksgiving everybody
Love
Yara
I enjoy your creativity with paper. It is always interesting to see what you will do next. Thank you for your inspiration to think outside the box and to create things totally different. I love it!
Marilyn
It was great meeting you in Boca! Those are some cute “turkeys” you’ve got ?
Please enter me in the drawing.
Designing my annual card and surrounded by paper. Maybe one of your 25 days projects will help me finalize my design. In the meantime, more paper means more possibilities. So I think I should enter, don’t you???? Thx for what you do!!!!!
Lovely papers. I do love bits of pretty paper, sometimes easier to use than a full sheet.
Hi Helen,
LOVE the dog. Too cute. Awesome papers. (Enter to win. 😉
Thanks for always taking me to the best, wonderful paper places and people. Had many fun hours.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and all the ones you love.
M