Recently, Creative Team Members
Karol Taylor and Naomi Towner took a class at the fabulous Paper and Metal Scrappers store
in Payson Arizona taught by instructor Gladys Moreno . This typewriter is the end result. One of the coolest things about this project
is that no actual typewriter pieces were used.
The main construction is from approximately 3/8” thick chipboard,
cut out and painted black. The metal
look is achieved by covering a thinner piece of chipboard with silver plumber’s
tape. You can find the tape at hardware
stores. It’s the kind you unroll and
peel off the protective paper. It was
then embossing with Tim Holtz clock “Alterations” pocket and colored with a copper
patina.
Other items used in the project are old sewing machine parts, Tim
Holtz glass knobs and gears, round pipe, wrapping paper tube and other bits of
chipboard cut to shape.
Here is the link to Gladys’s
Blog Heart of a Gypsy in case
you want to check out more of her art. If
you live in Arizona you might what to check out the classes in your local stores to see if she is
teaching in your area.
