Pop-Ups

May 14, 2016

Paper Pop-Ups

The Sunday Paper #107, May 15, 2016
Paper of the Week: Pico Paisley Moss Green from GPC Papers

Double-sided papers are useful for a variety of reasons. But for this pop-up dandelion card (a tutorial is available here) the …

September 30, 2014

Movable Book Society Conference Observations

A couple of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to attend the Movable Book Society’s semi-annual conference in Philadelphia. I was invited to give a talk about my book Playing With Pop-Ups, which features many of the paper …

September 9, 2014

The Movable Book Society

I’m super excited to be going to the Movable Book Society Conference next week in Philadelphia, where I’ll be lecturing and facilitating a mini-workshop.

My interest in paper actually began with pop-ups, way back in the mid 1980’s when I …

May 6, 2014

Mother's Day Pop-Up Cards

A quick note to new (and old) subscribers! You newbie’s signed up for The Sunday Paper, but I wanted to let you know that I do one more post a week, generally on Wednesdays, featuring a profile of a …

April 22, 2014

The Story Behind Alpha Blocks

I’ve just finished packaging the first 40 copies of my newest artists’ book, Alpha Blocks. Would you believe that this project began in 1986? I was studying abroad in Germany for a year and stumbled across the font Block Up …

April 17, 2014

Goodreads Giveaway now through April 30, 2014

 

Yay, it’s a giveaway! Click here for a chance to win a copy of Playing With Pop-Ups! 

And here’s the first review of the book that I’ve seen, all the way from Singapore. It includes lots of pictures, plus …

April 15, 2014

Pop-Ups & Wishes

This has been a busy couple of weeks! My book Playing With Pop-Ups is scheduled to be released on May 1st; and I’m putting the final touches on The Wish Project, which will be installed later this month! This …

March 25, 2014

A Butterfly Book

The template for this butterfly book is available if you subscribe to my newsletter. Thanks to those of you who already do! I do enjoy designing paper projects like this and plan to change the template download quarterly. If …

March 18, 2014

Artist Profile: Shawn Sheehy

The first time I met Shawn Sheehy, we spent an hour or so together in the pop-up book section at Powells Books in Portland. It was fun to page through the collection of movable books, oohing and aahing in tandem …

March 13, 2014

Pre-Order Your Copy of Playing With Pop-Ups

        I’m excited to announce that you can now pre-order my new book Playing With Pop-Ups. 

Click here to order your copy and receive a bonus: the materials and instructions to create your own pop-up dandelion card (this is project that …