Cardboard Construction

This was by far my FAVORITE assignment.

Our instructions on this assignment were to create a 3-dimensional artwork using cardboard.  I didn't have many ideas to begin with, so I found myself looking online.  I found this cool thing that was very exciting to me, in fact I still want to make one!

 But I decided that I wanted to do something ORIGINAL and that led me to the garage. Why the garage, you ask?  Well because I had a LOT of cardboard in there!  We got a new mattress and had asked the people who delivered it to leave the boxes.

So I dragged one into the house.  I cut it into long strips (like 4 inches by10 feet!).  Cutting off the first 3 made me think of braiding.  But how to braid cardboard?  GET IT WET!

Next thing I knew, I was standing in the shower with the strips of cardboard.  Good thing I have a very large master bathroom!

I braided them together and LOVED it.  What next?  MORE!

3 more pieces and standing in the shower.  Wait, maybe these are TOO wet cuz the layers of cardboard are separating.  Oh but THAT looks kinda cool!

Next thing I know I have a humongous heart consisting of braided cardboard on one half, swirled out layers of cardboard for the other half.  But it was all just on the floor!  I slid a huge piece of cardboard underneath it, arranged it again how I liked it and grabbed some gold spray paint that I had bought for a different project.  Good thing I have a large master bathroom.  bad thing I don't have more windows in there! 

The trickiest part of the project for me:  taking photos that didn't include the toilet!

 Then I decided I like it so much that I hot glued everything down well, cut out around it, and hung it on the wall.  Much easier to photograph that way!  It's still there!