Materials

Box divider: Divider from a box of candles.

Cardstock (blue, red): From a presentation at the Art Directors Club.

Cardstock (orange, purple, yellow): Scraps from 110lb cardstock.

Cardstock (pink, white): Light-weight cardstock for folding.

Chipboard: Backing inserts from packs of new photo paper and cardstock.

Comic board: Retired comic book backing boards from the 1980s and 90s.

Copy paper: Left over from wedding menus in 2014.

Cotton paper: Liner from a box of vintage carbon paper.

Dollhouse wallpaper: 1:12 miniature dollhouse wallpaper from 1976. I got this outside the thrift shop off Cortelyou around 2009. Some of the sheets are sun-bleached from hanging up in my living room without UV protection.

Engineering paper, graph paper, laid paper: A wealth of paper from the last day of the Westbeth Artists Housing Flea Market in 2023.

Envelope: Montclair Stationery used to sell bundles of assorted envelopes, probably left over from the greeting card section. They closed in 2024.

Letterpressed card: Extra wedding invitations from 2014.

Matboard: Matboard scraps from a framing shop.

Medieval Times crown: Guest crown from Medieval Times Dinner and Tournament.

Onionskin: From a very old box of office supplies for Sears, Roebuck and Co. in Passaic, open 1929-1974.

Onionskin letterhead: Demurrage and storage companies collect fees levied in commercial shipping. From Englishtown Antiques.

Origami paper: Picked up at a stoop sale for 50¢.

Packing cardboard (strip): A nice little strip of cardboard I couldn't throw away.

Packing cardboard (No. 1): Insert from a takeout bag.

Stardream cardstock: Samples for wedding invitations from 2009.

Tracing paper: Old pages from a Blick pad I use for sketching out ideas.

Waxed paper: Backing strips from peel-and-seal envelopes for greeting card orders.

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