MAKING MONKEYS 5/11

I decided last week to do a new "recycled paper" project. I was looking through monkey photos for another piece of art I'm working on and I came across the classic monkey with cymbals toy. I have one of these in my studio and it's really fun and annoying when you turn it on.



I started out designing one while I looked for paper and cardboard to build it. I decided to make 3 of them.





After sketching out the measurements I cut all the patterns for the different pieces.







I cut all the paper for the body, face, and limbs. and glued them to the cardboard levels to make them 3-dimensional.













The toughest part was finding metallic paper for the cymbals and cutting them out. I ran out of the little bit of metallic paper quickly and miscalculated the number to cut (3 monkeys x 2 cymbals x 2 sides to each cymbal = 12). I ended up cheating in the end and making up for my mistake with tin foil.





They ended up turning out pretty neat.

TOPPS STICK-ONS 1981

Topps Stick-ons released in 1981 were originally sold as "Put-ons" in 1968. I'm including them in the 1980s cards since this is the set I own.

You can tell the cards were originally from the 60s due to the Beatles references (I am the egg man, strawberry fields forever) and a few of the other ones (Love, revolution now, etc).





These cards are relatively small but have 4-6 stickers on each one. I still wish I would have bought two sets so I could have stuck a few of them on stuff. Oh well.

































This one is one of my faves because of the Wacky Packages cameo of "Gadzooka" from the 1st series.





































There are puzzle backs on the reverse sides of the cards which form a red and blue bordered set of puzzles.





There is a lot more info on the Put-on/Stick-on card sets on bubblegumcards.org including the wrapper and card variations

http://www.bubblegumcards.org/PutOnStickers.html