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- Hi, I'm Margaret Nowak and I'm an art therapist.
I work at the University of Michigan
in the Comprehensive Cancer Center
where we offer art therapy as a complementary therapy
for patients with cancer.
I'm going to make a project today
that can be used for a memory book.
It takes you one step up from scrapbooking.
Or you can even use it as a greeting card
and they basically look like this.
Here's a sample of one that's completed.
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So the first thing we're gonna start with
are some four-inch pieces square of cardboard,
and this is just a very simple piece of cardboard.
But you can also use mat board
in different colors and cut that.
So four inches square and you'll need two of these.
And you'll need one to three pieces of paper
that's eight inches square
that will create your little origami centers.
So what you're gonna do
is you're gonna fold this from point to point
to create a triangle.
And you can crease down your edges
with anything that you have handy.
This happens to be a bone folder.
You can use the edges of your scissors in the same way.
You don't have to have anything particular.
And then, you open this up
and lay it down with the point facing up.
And the next step is to fold it from side to side.
And then, open that up and fold it the opposite way.
And here's where the magic happens.
You open it up this way,
and those centers fold right into the center like this.
So there's you're little opening.
Then, you're going to take some handmade paper.
And this is a oil-spill paper.
But you're gonna cut these into sheets
that are six inches big.
So I've got two, one for my front cover
and one for my back cover.
And you'll see how this just fits right around here,
and I've got a little bit,
about an inch on each side, maybe a little bit more.
So your next step is to take some glue.
Just put a little line of glue all the way around,
and you can rub that in with your fingers.
I usually don't.
And just attach that.
If you have loose edges, you can add a little more glue,
if you want.
You're gonna be gluing your little origami pages in here,
and that tends to get everything flat.
So now, I have my two little covers.
You have two choices
for making your ties
on these little books.
And this one has
ties on each side,
so one in the front and one in the back.
And this one, both of the ties go through the back.
The difference here is that when you tie this
you cover the front.
So if you have a design like this on the front,
oops that's upside down,
then, if you were to bring the ribbons across the front,
you would hide this.
So that's why you have a couple of options.
And, for this one,
you basically would just glue your ribbon.
So all that you need to do
is put a little glue.
So in order to fill the inside,
I wanna show you,
in this book I chose two different colors of origami paper.
There's a white, if we look from on top,
there's a white, two whites and a red.
And you can choose which ever colors you like
for that process.
And all that you need to do
is you're gonna put a line of glue down the center
and just lightly around the back.
I'm gonna line them up in here.
And they go like this.
So, you'll want to glue them in this manner
so that they open correct.
Black next.
And this black paper is,
this is card stock,
just plain old white computer card stock.
The yellow is also.
This black is a piece of construction paper.
And sometimes I use construction paper.
That works well too.
And just like the other one, it opened this way.
This will get attached right on this next color.
You're gonna add glue to this last piece.
Then once you complete this part,
that's when you begin filling the inside.
And you can use a variety of items for this.
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You can fill these books,
they can be memory books of specific memories that you have,
times of your life, trips that you've taken,
journeys that you're going on.
Even for people who do have cancer,
you can create a book of memories
that expresses your experience of cancer
and going through cancer treatment.
So what you put on the inside
can be combination of a variety of things.
You can actually use photographs.
You can use magazine cutouts.
You can use little poems,
little quotes, things that have been inspirational for you,
things that you might even use
that could be helpful for meditation.
Or just reflecting on things that are important to you.
So I like this little picture here.
And this white blends right in,
so I'm gonna set it off by putting it on a black background.
So I've got this that I can put here.
On these sides, you can add other things.
You can do more paper.
For example,
if I cut some of these complementary sheets of color
into triangles, you can add triangles here for color.
And then, you can add additional photographs here or words.
These are little stickers, they're kind of nice.
This is another piece of paper that I,
it's card stock and I just ran bits of poetry on there
which is where I got this quote from here.
And I might add a word to one of these corner pieces.
Like the word care.
Now for your front, you can do a variety of things.
And I have lots of different things that can be used.
I've got some of these little leaves that are kind of nice.
But none of these really match with my cover.
So, this one does but it blends in.
You sometimes have to play with these to see what works.
And there are just lots of choices for collage.
And I don't really like that either,
so I'm gonna go back to my black paper,
which I think might work better.
And
put that little shape in the center.
And then I'm gonna add to that some more gold.
And sometimes with collage,
you just have to move things around a little bit
to find a way that you really like the way things look.
And that's kind of one of the beauties of collage
is you can really play with things.
And I also have some buttons here.
So what I'm gonna do on the top of this
is just make a little assortment of buttons.
And I'll play with those,
I always play with those
to just see what kind of a arrangement I might like.
Maybe something just simple like that.
And I think a word, like a word for this also.
I think,
priceless.
And when this is all completed,
you'll be able to tie your ribbon closed.
So here's another shot of our finished project.
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