Mandy Brannan

PAPER [PYPR]

Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Ferns revisited

Back in 2010 I rescued some ferns from the bin.

The papers made using these fronds was very popular and sold quite quickly. Over the last few years I have periodically made more sheets and even a manual. Getting ready for BABE I thought I would make some more and package them differently....let's see if these sell.........



 also added some recycled text

Sunday, March 8, 2015


So sad........but I found this photo with my handmade paperpacks on her work bench......

http://triangleworkshop.org/category/uncategorized/


Thursday, March 5, 2015

After finishing a few projects ( new issues of rose and rowan manuals) tidied up studio area (1st since late Dec!!) folded some papers/card stock/just playing around.

 experiments 
 screen print/letterpress


Tuesday, March 3, 2015

 Missed putting up a few of my latest experiments........
picked up some wild hops to see if I could use them in some papers........bit of a bugger to process






                                          When I cooked them the little nugget of hop stuff 
                                                      came away from each leaflet....
                                      nearly chucked them away but a friend kindly stopped
                                         me and she picked out all the annoying little bits......


Still not as successful as I would have liked...
the leaflets did not like being made into inclusions...
so had to blend them and use gampi fibres to hold the bits down.


Then I bleached the little buggers and that seem to help .....