The piece was inspired by a piece
that Diana Ludwig did in our 1995 class. She had done the grid
locked caps to make the word CHOCOLATE with chocolate wrappers
show in the background in the counter spaces. When we had your
2002 class in New York I had see the movie Forrest Gump and knew
then I had to do the box of chocolates.
I had created my roman caps and made
copies at different sizes and played around with the words to
grid lock them into a square shape. I used both phrases from the
movie….'Life is like a box of chocolates' and 'You never know
what your gonna get' as I knew I had to have two layers of
chocolates. Once I had the layout I looked for a square box I
could use….preferably a chocolate box. Didn't have much luck
finding anything that would fit the bill but found one that had
toiletries in it. Took the toiletries out and covered the box
with gold wrapping paper.
On the lid I glued the word LIFE
that I had cut from card stock and then wrapped the lid with
gold wrapping paper. Using my finger I ran it over the lid to
make the LIFE letters stand out as if they had been embossed
onto the lid. I cut two pieces of gold matt board to fit inside
the box. I then took the two phrases to Kinkos and had them
print in red from the black letters onto card stock about 3/8"
less than the size of the matt board(to give a gold boarder
around the letters). The next step was to cut out the counters
and glue them to the matt board. |
In the box I had to add a piece of cardboard half the depth of
the box from the bottom of the box so the first phrase would sit
on it rather than the chocolates. Added the chocolates for the
first layer and then added the first phrase. I created another
tray from cardboard for the top layer and added the chocolates
and the matt board on top of that adding broad ribbon underneath
the tray so that the top tray could be lifted out to show the
bottom tray. It was worth all that effort to see the faces of
the rest of the class when I opened the box of "LIFE" a real
Kodak moment.
Looking back at all my efforts I should have found a box before
doing the grid lock as I was working with a square box
theme…..not many square chocolate boxes out there. As things
turned, out our dog Turbo found the box of chocolates in my
study a couple of years later and destroyed the top layer of the
box and ate the chocolates. Still have the original top card
"You never know what your gonna get"……how ironic. |
