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FOUR Punch & Judy Theaters + New Florals – 25% off SALE!
Filed under Laura Carson, Lora Mahaffey, Nichola Battilana, Paper Dolls/Theatres, Pink Valentine Theatre Kit, Teri Calia
From a classic English Punch & Judy show to a pink & gold kitty cat stage (and a theatre with side box seats… AND a silly theatre with Cupid playing matchmaker to vampires) — so much variety from the back-in-stock Punch & Judy Theatre. Plus many of the projects also use the back-in-stock Arch Top and Peaked Roof facades.
Check below for some new spring foliage, too — those and all the artwork supply lists are in the new sale collection.
Starting with the classic Punch & Judy Theater by Nichola Battilana:
I do love Punch & Judy! One of the longest and unhappiest marriages has brought joy to others for 350 years now: Punch and Judy, the battling puppet duo, for whom the term “slapstick” was coined from their constant marital wars.
And lucky for me (and you): Nichola is also fond of that battling duo:
If you aren’t familiar with Punch and Judy it’s a sort of violent puppet show which can be dated back to just before the 1700’s, reaching a height of popularity during the Victorian era. More recently, they have a bit of a shout out in Gone Girl.
To make this piece I began with the Punch & Judy Theatre kit. Then covered it in striped paper. I’ve actually added two headers here. One attached to the rear from the Punch & Judy Theater Collage Sheet. A second one on the front of the the theatre from The Grand Guignol Collage Sheet. I think it gives a good feeling of frantic fun, perfectly suited to Punch and Judy.
Here’s a link to everything in Nichola’s supply list AND a link to her blog post (with more photos & details like the movable characters). Note: use my supply link as her post was before we moved the site.
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Pussy Cat Theatre by Teri Calia
Oh my… Teri Calia has merged her (hm… obsession?) love of cats with the chipboard theatre to make this Pussy Cat Theatre!
In addition to the overall cuteness (and putting cat heads on the figures on either side of the stage!), I’d like to point out the lights: See the bottom right of the photo for how Teri hid a Mini String of Fairy Lights in the recessed area behind the facade.
See the original post for more photos, and here’s a link to see all her supplies.
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The Shakespeare Theater Presents A Midsummer’s Night Dream
Laura Carson has made a colorful (and fancy) paper theatre, The Shakespeare Theater Presents A Midsummer’s Night Dream, from the Punch & Judy Theatre (in the center, along with an Arch Top Theatre Facade), plus a big bunch of images from collage sheets and print-outs of digital image sets.
The center of the theatre is the 3D item: the box seat on the sides are flat chipboard and paper. Laura bent the 2 print-outs at the bottom of the box seats so they would bow out a little, giving the appearance that the sides are as dimensional as the center.
See the original post for more photos, and here’s a link to see all her supplies.
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Cupid Matchmaking Vampires?… It must be Opera
Bwaa… Haa… Haa… Lora Mahaffey has made a delightful paper theatre called Cupid Matchmaking Vampires?…It must be Opera from the Marionnette Theatre Collage Sheet and Arch Top Theatre Facade (backed with shallower shadowboxes than the 3D theatre).
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AND (beside Lora’s witty text — and a tutorial on putting the piece together) Lora has also provided a free pdf so you can make your own speech bubbles and title for the top (and a tiny coffin template)! Just click on the small image of the pdf file at right to download the hi-res version.
Lora has bumped up the (already bright colors) on all the collage sheet images with Copic markers and colored pencils. I love the curtains she added to the sides of the stage (there were already curtains in the Marionnette Theatre image, but she replaced them with curtains from the Gatefold Square Shrine Curtains Collage Sheet (and added extra color and Stickles glitter).
See the original post for more photos, and here’s a link to see all her supplies.
More NEW or Back-in-Stock Supplies
Such pretty colors (the Gothic Bat or Gargoyle is odd man out, but he’d be perfect at the top of a spooky Halloween theatre)! And see the NEW White Resin Pigeons or Doves at left! (I’m just showing 1 of each size as comparison. They come in 1:12 or 1:24 scales and there’s a set of 5 mixed poses in both sets.)
See all the new & back in stock items.
Punch & Judy Theaters SALE
A couple more collage sheets designed to fit the full size Punch & Judy Theatre are below — AND I’ve added the cute Half Scale Punch & Judy Theatre to the sale, too!
Over 30 items are on sale, including:
– all the new & back-in-stock items,
– the Half Scale Punch & Judy Theatre I just mentioned,
– AND all of the supplies from the projects above: Punch & Judy Theater, Pussy Cat Theatre, The Shakespeare Theater Presents A Midsummer’s Night Dream, Cupid Matchmaking Vampires?…It must be Opera. (Those are links to the individual supply lists.)
There’s a new AUTOMATIC DISCOUNT for an extra 25% off the listed prices! You’ll see the discount in your cart — no code required!
The sale ends WEDNESDAY NIGHT, March 5th at midnight PST.
