{"id":844,"date":"2008-06-02T12:07:06","date_gmt":"2008-06-02T17:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/?p=1745"},"modified":"2008-06-02T12:07:06","modified_gmt":"2008-06-02T17:07:06","slug":"paperbag-swag-the-last-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/06\/paperbag-swag-the-last-page\/","title":{"rendered":"paperbag swag- the last page"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the <a href=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/category\/paperbag-swag-book\/\" target=\"_blank\">paperbag swag project<\/a>? I finished a page way back in July of last year (2007) and then&#8230; nothing. The project went on a long vacation. Hopefully we are all back on track now. I am so happy to be finishing and I can&#8217;t wait to get my book back with all the artwork from everyone else! This is due in the mail on June 4. I spent the last month thinking about a design and the weekend actually putting it together.<\/p>\n<p>My last page is for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kleas.typepad.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kristin<\/a>. I have enjoyed working on this page because I&#8217;ve met Kristin in person and so there feels like a real connection. Her theme is Journey.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/kristen1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1743\" title=\"kristen1\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/kristen1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"246\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Getting the color right in the photographs is a challenge. In the picture below, the blue is right and the green is wrong.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/kristin2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1744\" title=\"kristin2\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/kristin2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am so impressed by people who embroider words- ack-hard! I did a mix of machine embroidery, hand embroidery and ribbon embroidery.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/kristin3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1746\" title=\"kristin3\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/kristin3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"449\" height=\"673\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/kristin4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1747\" title=\"kristin4\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/kristin4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/kristin5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1748\" title=\"kristin5\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/kristin5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/kristin6.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1749\" title=\"kristin6\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/kristin6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I did some little drawings that I was planning to incorporate into the piece but in the end, didn&#8217;t use them. I made a bookmark out of them.  They are suppose to show home, family, art.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/kristinbookmark.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1750\" title=\"kristinbookmark\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/kristinbookmark.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"449\" height=\"861\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is a gluing it into the book photo. I always get nervous at this part- what if I totally mess it up!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/kristinclamp.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1751\" title=\"kristinclamp\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/kristinclamp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"449\" height=\"325\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And, the swag!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/kristinswag.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1752\" title=\"kristinswag\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/kristinswag.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"449\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some other links connected to this project-<\/p>\n<p>Theresa <a href=\"http:\/\/hatu.blogs.com\/hugsacrosstheuniverse\/2008\/05\/the-space-to-create.html\" target=\"_blank\">most recent post<\/a> about it. <a href=\"http:\/\/kleas.typepad.com\/kleas\/2008\/05\/paper-bag-swag-round-five.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kristen<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cathygaubert\/sets\/72157600010641469\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cathy<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/aplcreations.com\/news.html\" target=\"_blank\">Amy<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/greenbeanbaby.typepad.com\/main\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ellia<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the paperbag swag project? I finished a page way back in July of last year (2007) and then&#8230; nothing. The project went on a long vacation. Hopefully we are all back on track now. I am so happy to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/06\/paperbag-swag-the-last-page\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,8,15],"tags":[30,43,69,90],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}