I made a lamp cover from old magazine covers that were lying around my place. I used the template found on Instructables website. It is more beautiful if you can find a translucent thick material to use, but I think the colourful glow that illuminates from behind the paper is quite interesting and like a work of art.

This collage was made from the sample paper from a Domtar Earthchoice sample booklet. It is in memory of my fighter fish Kenshiro who was a fighter to the very end. Mottainai.

This is a holiday wreath I made by upcycling holiday mail advertising. I used the ads as leaves of a pointsetta, and used beads from a broken neckace as the center, and finished it off with a nice light spray of matte white spray paint.

I especially love the places where you can still see the text underneath the paint.  This pretty piece of paper art was given as a gift for the holidays.

Here is the 2009 Holiday eCard that I created for Dimentians (the company I work for). This animation from concept to finish was completed in a mere three days. The idea was to incorporate my recent upcycling collage inspirations and use the design magazines that I had on my desk at work from HOW, Veer & Wired. ENJOY!

This is the first upcycle collage for my Japanese Obake (monster) series. I will create different collages depicting different Obake derived from Japanese folklore.

This is collage is of Rokurokubi, which are ordinary people by day, but transform into long necked creatures at night, often frightening people and creating terror.

This collage was created out of the HOW magazine paper product advertising inserts.

This project no. 10 is created out of the HOW magazine paper product advertising inserts from the February 2005 issue.

This collage was inspired by Hiroshige Hokusai’s Geisha wood block print. I loved all the layers of the kimono and creating the lines in the hair with cut outs, revealing the colour of the paper behind as the lines. I also had some liberties with my interpretation, for instance, I reversed the image, and used different colours and textures for the background and kimono accessories (this however was limited to what paper I had available from this issue).

This collage was a bit more time consuming and detailed than some of the previous collages that I have made, but the final results were oh so satisfying that I don’t mind that I spent my Sunday morning getting covered in glue and paper scraps.

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This project no. 9 is created out my old birthday cards given to me over the past 2 years.

I thought the bamboo was fitting since the paper came from a card to celebrate aging and bamboo are plants that are strong and rejuvenate quickly (what we all wish we could do as we age).

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Pretty kitties.

This project no. 8 is created out of the HOW magazine paper product advertising inserts from the June 2009 issue.

This one was fun to do, I think I could of put so many more things into this collage, but at some point I had to tell myself the age old truth, sometimes less is more.

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Dreamy.

This project no. 7 is created out of the Veer stock catalogue from the September 2008 issue.

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A little Japanese inspiration.

This project no. 6 is created out of the HOW magazine paper product advertising inserts from the October 2005 issue.

I have noticed that these older issues have more paper ads, I guess with the economic times being what they are advertising has decreased in recent issues.

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These were some totes I made from vintage pillowcases that I found in second hand shops around Toronto. I chose to mix and match two patterns together to make it more interesting, and finished the edges with colourful bias tape.

I also stenciled the Japanese word Kaizen on each tote, which loosely translated means “continuous improvement”. Which I thought was fitting seeing as the totes were an improvement on its former existence as a pillowcase, and secondly it serves as a replacement for such things as plastic bags.

There were only six totes made, and all of them sold within a few hours at the Cabbagetown Arts and Crafts festival this past September. I am already scouting the second hand shops now for next years stock, or if i get my act together earlier maybe these can be this years Christmas gift? We shall see.

This project no. 5 is created out of the HOW magazine paper product advertising inserts from the August 2009 issue.

You can’t really tell from this scan, but the yellow bar like objects behind the wolf are actually made of this fantastic gold paper that reflects so well in real life. But you will have to just use your imagination.

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