Ecollustration of the week: Think Positive

Think positive. Live Positive

Best way to live life I think, So I illustrated it on my archival box, so I can see it everyday. Surprisingly watercolors work really nice on paperbags. Love it

Archival box

Another D.I.Y Recycling project to organize yourself. An archival box, because my archival folder has no more room!.So much papers to keep and organize. So here I am, to show you how to make a simple archival box for your files.
You will need:
Folders of your choice
A box ( milk carton boxes are great size)
Paper to wrap your box (I'm using Paperbags).


1: Here's the milk carton box

2: Measure the sizes on the paper of your choice.

3: Here are my four sizes trimmed and ready to be glued.

4: You don't need to cover the whole paper to glued it into the box, just apply glue on the tabs.

5: The first side done! now let's do the rest.

6: Tada! this is how it looks done with my folders inside!

Now it's not really completely done because it needs an illustration. The ecollustration of the week will go on the box. So come back tomorrow to see the ecollustration of the week  that I have planned for this new archival box. Stay tuned!

Aimar Ecollustrado

Gustavo Aimar is the ecollustrador of the week. In his illustrations he creates beautiful collages from old paper, wallpaper, stamps and old pictures together with gesso, watercolor(wohoo!) and tempera. With that he creates  unique collages. Love his color palette and his playful characters. His illustrations have a strong sense of storytelling, which I definitely appreciate. Despite the soft colors the images have a strong presence. I really like his style, especially the way he draw peoples with unique eyes(round and uneven) he pulls it off really nice. Here are some of his illustrations that I love from his Flickr stream.

He has his own blog, even if you don't speak spanish, you can translate it to english with the google translator. I have done that for you HERE 
Check out his STUDIO too and SHOP as well!
Beautiful right? 


PS:He speaks spanish:from argentina.

Flea Markets Books

If there is a flea market near your home, I highly recommend you to visit it. You can find so many unexpected things from clothing to art and to jewelry and better yet cheap books. If you see a book stand, as a book lover I never miss a chance to see what books I find, specially in children's book. There I admit it, I a grown woman likes children books, but there is a but, sometimes for the story but mostly I love to look at the illustrations!. I had noticed that old ones are hard to find but not impossible, I came across this one, which I treasure:

It didn't have a cover jacket, but instead is right on the front of the book.

The endpages

The beginning

Each chapter starts in this format

There are black and white illustrations

AS well as color illustrations

Book was written by L.Frank Baum and illustrated by one of my favorite illustrators John R. Neill. This book is part of the series "The Books of Wonder Series"( yes the wizard of oz is part of that series).


To learn more about Frank, click HERE 
To learn more about John R. Neill, click HERE 

For your Business Cards

You seen here, today's week of D.I.Y. Recycling project.
A business card holder, because is very important to keep your contacts organize and not swimming around in an envelope (my bad). Using my empty box of the tea sampler I tried and soda boxes I'm going to share with you how to make yours.
1. Get all your materials ready: Empty soda box, It can also be done with cereal boxes or milk cartons. Then the box where your cards will fit nice and snug (I'm using my tea sampler).

2. Cut all your 26 separators and add an extra half inch to the height, so you can make your tabs.

3. Mark your tabs on each card, I chose to make 8.

4. Cut your tabs I did  a total of 7 sets, of those sets , 5 have 4 separators and the last two has 3 separators.

5. Decorate your tabs.

6. Ta-da! you now have your business card filer done.