slinky books

So I had this crazy idea to make a slinky out of paper after I saw one in the collection of a bookseller, who came to visit my artists' books class. Little did I know what I was getting into. The basic form is simple enough, a series of rings that are attached end to end to make a slinky. However, the covers and then the decorations complicated things. I had actually very little trouble with my first attempt, once I figured out the leaves I wanted to use. (Thank you to Martha Stewart for making such cool toys.) "Falling Leaves" works like a slinky when you hold it in your hands and let the "pages" turn themselves.
I was excited by the way this turned out and set out to do one with a transparent/translucent set of rings and snowflakes on them. Yeah Right! Vellum is not as durable as the drawing paper I had and the snowflakes out of paper are in a word, a nightmare. One inch paper snowflakes are extremely delicate and don't glue well with any glue I have found. But I have yet to give up on finding a way to get what I want. So far there are two versions of the snowflake slinky. Version one is vellum as a base and colored drawing paper for the snowflakes. The look is right but the snowflakes tangle and tear the minute you try to work the slinky action. I only had half the flakes on when the tangles started so I let it alone and went in search of new materials that would be more durable.

Hello overhead transparency film. Plastic does not glue to it's self with any clear glue, but there is this great stuff called double stick tape, so cool. However snowflakes out of even heavyweight paper tear easily and don't adhere well to plastic. After considerable trial and error (lots of errors) I have a semi working snowflake slinky version two. I will post pictures of the version two soon.