Suncatchers 2.infinity
a series of random events
DIY and Craft Ideas with Matchbooks
Whatever happened to that matchbook with her phone number? Anyway.
As I was removing the matches they come in two halves, 10 matches each. So I dipped the 10 matches in glow in the dark paint and painted the friction strip too with glow in the dark paint. The rest is self-explanatory, paper puncher and some randomly chopped-up magazines and books for the pages of the matchbooks, 15 in total: supermarket ad, harbor freight ad, recipe book from 1999, craft book, atlas, dictionary, crossword puzzle book, home repair book, Grand Canyon, Zion, Lake Mead souvenir book, national geo from 1992; 2025 calendar, gardening book, etc. But they can be any theme, or subject, like a place, person, or activity, and either bee fiction or nonfiction.
I found spray paint better than acrylic, the acrylic is too plasticity. Maybe if they cure for longer. I peeled the backing off the jigsaws to make them thinner. Of course, painted them reactive to black light. They are cheap blank matchbooks, 50 for 5$, poor quality paper stock and there are better ones but not many sellers and I did not do much research, just trying out a concept but they worked none the less. . .
Equipment: stapler; scissors, guillotine paper cutter, paper puncher, etc. . . mod pog, glitter, imagination.
