I have always loved paper. The feel, the look, the experience of seeing something I created on a piece of paper. So I became a graphic designer. I started getting interested in pop ups when I began teaching Production at George Brown. One project asks the students to incorporate a pop up in a small book. There are a lot of people out there who create wonderful pop ups. I became so interested in t
he mechanics of the pop up, I started trying to figure out how they work. I never realized how complex they can be until I started trying to create my own. While the "slice and dice" method (like my tree) can be very spectacular, I also wanted to create something that used other methods to create effects. Last year I began to think about not only creating a card that people would keep from one year to the next, I wanted it to be a card that could convert into something special, like an ornament for your tree. Pop up ornaments are easy to store, don't take up much space and can be a lasting memory of the person who gave it to you. They are light, which means they are easy to hang on the tree.
