Detail shot of Chase Bridge's "Wood Worm"

​The 2022 PAGEY ELLIOTT PUZZLE EXCHANGE

Below are the eleven 2022 Pagey Elliott Puzzle Exchange puzzles. Each participant met each other through "Studio Nights -- an online video conference call to compare progress, get to know each other, and ask questions about making puzzles. Another addition was for long-distance participants who couldn't make it to the Parley, but were still able to participate by sending their completed set of puzzles to the event. A full set has been added to our growing collection of PEPE puzzles at the Strong Museum of Play.

Watch the 2022 PEPE Presentation on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4yq9DD9Iec

Click on an image or scroll down to see more about each puzzle

Bonsai in a Pot

Janell Amely

3 CAT MAX

Book of Worms

Wood Worm

Chas Bridge

Puzzled by Chas

Book of Worms

Squirreled Away

Shay Carmichael

Shay's Puzzle Workshop

Crystalline

Peter Clyde

Lazels

Here There Be Dragons

Lisa Lee

Forget Me Not Puzzles

Möbius Marbling

jESSICA ROSENKRATZ &
Jesse Louis-Rosenberg

Nervous System

Flower Still-Life with an Alabaster Vase

Terra Rodgers

Chestnut and Hemlock

Humming at Sunset

Isabelle Rouillard

Puzzlapy

Sun Goddess

Joe Seymour

Dep Qua Puzzles

Butterflies of Spring

Melinda Shebell

Jardin Puzzles

Gh'o'sts

Thom Spencer

JigsawArt

 

Bonsai in a Pot

Maker: Janell Amely at 3 Cat Max
Website link: https://3catmax.com/
​Size: ~7" x 7"   Pieces: 131 pieces​

A multi-layered, multi-media, hand painted laser-cut puzzle designed and crafted by Janell Amely of 3 Cat Max.

Note included with puzzle: 

Bonsai in a Pot
From Janell Amely at 3Catmax.com
Size: ~7" x 7"
Pieces: 131 pieces
Created for the 2022 Pagey Elliott Puzzle Exchange

Statement: I made a puzzle that is a tessellation -- it was purely meant to rest your mind and encourage creative shape-building. The puzzling community took that idea and put it together in ways I never even thought possible! The spirit of that puzzle inspired this Bonsai, with tessellating leaves that can be switched around to create any form you can think of, in any season. Let your fingers find your zen, but beware the tricky trunk!

All of the many pieces, mainly consisting of tessellating leaf shapes.

By fitting together a sheet of pre-cut tessellating pieces, Janell can watercolor them in batches.

Close up view of the layering of the leaf pieces and the pot pieces. The 3 pegs on the top of the pot are made from dyed mirror acrylic.

There is magic in that soil! Little microbe engraves are highlighted with shimmery watercolors.

All four seasons -- note that everything is two-sided, most evident in the way the trunk reverses from the top images to the bottom images.

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Wood Worm

 Maker: Chas Bridge at Puzzled by Chas
Email: [email protected]
​Size: 2 3/8" Tall x 21" Long       Pieces: 84​

Note included with puzzle:

As a carpenter, I celebrate the beauty of wood by gluing veneer to both sides of a puzzle. This lets me explore many vertical options: free standing like this wood worm, hanging on a thread, skewered on a dowel, hexagonal wall and many more.
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I start with an attractive pattern of veneer on a 7 1/4" square of MDF. After cutting it into three wavy edge strips, I cut the joints on a miter saw. I cut everything else on my old Craftsman scroll saw as three separate panels. First I cut a short piece from each end of the center panel and glue the miter joints. Then I cut each panel into two pieces with a long continuous cut. I separate the two halves and cut them into individual pieces to make an interesting and hopefully misleading "flow".
ENJOY

The three section of Chas Bridge's "Wood Worm", laid out how they would have been for the initial cut into 3 pieces from the 7" square.

Wood Worm's adorable little smile, and Chas's stamp.

Jig created to consistently glue angled pieces together. This piece will stand vertically when assembled in the puzzle.

Cutting a puzzle of only two pieces, before going through and cutting each into smaller pieces.

Wood Worm before he gets cut into puzzle pieces.

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Squireled Away

Maker: Shay Carmichael at Shay's Puzzle Workshop
Website link: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ShayzPuzzleWorkshop​
Artist: Shay Carmichael
​​Size: 7.5" x7"    Pieces: at least 75 ​

Note included with puzzle:

It's happened to me, and likely it's happened to you. That LAST piece of the puzzle has gone missing, and you spend hours searching for it, nary to find a thing.

As I was contemplating the puzzle to create for this year's exchange, I was wondering where all the lost piece's go. That's when the idea of a puzzle with pieces being "squirreled away" popped into my head. To tell the story of a sneaky squirrel, I felt I needed more than one image. A double-sided puzzle seemed to be the answer, so I needed to figure out how to make one. 

Utilizing digital art tools, I created two images and began experimenting. Aligning the images when mounting so that color line cutting would be effective on both sides was difficult. I utilized a straight edge and lots of eye power to get them very close. Also, challenging was the "whiskers" that the blade leaves on the bottom side of the puzzle. I found that placing transfer paper on it before cutting reduced whiskering significantly. 

I am quite pleased with how the puzzle turned out. To fully grasp the humor of "Squirreled Away" the assembler needs to look at both sides.

Front of puzzle, showing the irregular edge and Shay's art.

Back of puzzle, showing the culprit of all lost puzzle pieces!

Puzzle is double sided, notice the squirrel head is color line cut on both sides.

Close up detail shot of searching scene cut away inside the house.

Sneaky little varmint!

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Crystalline

 Maker: Peter Clyde of Lazels
Website link: https://www.lazels.com/
​Size:  ~2" x ~4"  Pieces: 223

Description:
A 223 piece titanium jigsaw puzzle engraved with a faceted crystal design and electrically anodized to a high voltage purple-blue color shift. This design features a hand-drawn contoured cut pattern that flows with the engraved design.

Note included with puzzle: 

It was a joy to craft this puzzle for you. Please use tweezers to assemble as fingers tend to leave prints. If prints occur, simply clean with enclosed microfiber cloth and Windex.
Enjoy your Puzzle!
-The Clydes
​IG @LazelsPuzzles

Puzzle shown with hands for scale.

Detail shot showing angled engraves and purple color shift.

Back of puzzle and a penny to show, again, the incredibly small size to these pieces. Tweezers are necessary and preferred to assemble this puzzle!

Puzzle back showing plain titanium sheen before being laser engraved and cut.

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Here There Be Dragons

Lis Lee of Forget Me Not Puzzles
Website: www.forgetmenotpuzzles.com
Artist: Unknown
​Size: 7.5"x 5.75"    Pieces: 55

Note included with puzzle:

Here There Be Dragons
Cut by Lisa Lee for the Pagey Elliott Puzzle Exchange, July 2022. www.forgetmenotpuzzles.com​

Jumbled dragon pieces

Puzzle back

Detail of Lisa Lee's signature

Side angled view of Lisa Lee's puzzle

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Möbius Marbling

Jessica Rosenkrantz and Jesse Louis-Rosenberg of Nervous System
​Website: https://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/
Artist: in collaboration with Amanda Ghassaei
​Size: 8.9"x7"   Pieces: 143​​​

On box: 
Mobius Marbling Puzzle
Created for the 2022 Pagey Elliott Jigsaw Puzzle Exchange
Infinitely reconfigurable, no edges, no fixed shape

Continuous puzzling on all sides. The image and puzzle pieces can be rotated and flipped to continually build the puzzle up/down, left/right, front/back!

Nervous System's signature piece.

How it's made: puzzles are first laser cut from plywood, then UV printed on both sides, meticulously aligned to create a continuous tiling surface.

Art work created by Amanda Ghassai by transforming a Georgia O'Keeffee painting with a digital paper marbling simulation

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Flower Still Life with an Alabaster Vase

Terra Rodgers of Chestnut and Hemlock
Artist: Gerard van Spaendonck
​Website: chestnutandhemlock.com/
​Size: ~7" x7"      Pieces: 230​​

Note included with puzzle:
I wanted to push myself with this series of puzzles by using lots of tiny drop outs, cutting thin sections, and adding layers, which I hadn't done before. Several of the drop outs in the design were too small and numerous to cut in a 7" puzzle, so keeping them as similar as possible was quite challenging.

Dutch flower paintings, such as this painting by Spaendonck from the Rijksmuseum, provided a good opportunity to explore different elements of puzzle design.

Puzzle back

Detail shot of the many tiny drop outs and thin pieces.

Three-layer puzzle, detail showing layers before placement on puzzle.

Side view to better see layered effect.

Original artwork on the left, artwork adapted to puzzle and cut on the right.

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Humming at Sunset

Isabelle Rouillard of Puzzlapy
​Website: www.puzzlapy.com
​Size: 6" x 8"    Pieces: 103​​

Note included with puzzle:
Title: "Humming at Sunset"
Created for the 2022 Pagey Elliott Jigsaw Puzzle Exchange - Puzzle Parley 2022
Hand cut by myself (Collage using my paintings)

Hello,
For my first time at the Puzzle Parley, I wanted to create a puzzle that represents who I am.
The Art:
- The Hummingbird is my signature piece in all my puzzles. A hummingbird because the day I was questioning myself about jumping in this puzzle adventure, a hummingbird showed up at my window, like a messenger saying "do it" 🥰
- the art is by myself, the hummingbird shape is from my own drawing. This art piece is made out of 4 of my paintings that I printed, cut into pieces to create a collage that is the final Art of this puzzle. My original art is a 11x14 collage.

The Cut:
- This puzzle represents where I am, as a cutter, right now. Cut with uneven edges, few special shapes, following some lines of the art, a puzzle in a puzzle, and my Hummingbird signature piece. 

               *********************

Who I am:
- I am originally from France, living in the USA since 21 years.
I was a puzzler for years, before buying my scroll saw in 2021.
I wanted to create puzzles for my mom who has arthritis pain in her hands and cannot grab cardboard puzzle pieces.
I'm creating using art from unknown artists, supporting them. They are from France, USA, or recently from Ukraine. I also use my own art/pictures images.
And, I really like to find unique images to create Only One Unique puzzle.

- For every puzzle that I cut, I like to follow the flow of the art in front of me. I like to create puzzles in puzzles, and I love cutting push-fit puzzles.
Sometimes including special shapes too, sometimes with drop out.

Creating puzzles for all ages. 🧩💗✨
Thank you, 
(signed Isabelle)

Puzzle back

Detail view of collaged art created by Isabelle

On edge view

Note how the hummingbird is a large, multi-piece whimsy, cut completely separate from the background pieces

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Sun Goddess

Joe Seymour of Dep Qua Puzzles
​Website: icollectpuzzles.com/
​Size: 7" x 7"    Pieces: 96​​

Note included with puzzle:
This watercolor painting was a part of a series called Koi  by Willy Gomez. This copy was available for download, so I printed it and made a puzzle for myself a couple of years ago. I knew that it would be a great choice for the Pagey Elliott Puzzle Exchange, so I did not show it to anyone. I needed to drill over400 holes in order to cut all the drop-outs needed to complete the Exchange puzzles. I hope you enjoy it!
Joe Seymour -- 2022 Puzzle Parley
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All the tiny little cutouts from this puzzle design that fall under the saw

Joy Seymour's signature piece

A couple of koi whimsies

A lady whimsy that lines up with the imagery in a clever way

Back of the puzzle

Puzzle in diamond orientation

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Butterflies of Spring

Melinda Shebell of Jardin Puzzles
​Website: www.jardinpuzzles.com
​Size: 6 3/8" x 7"       Pieces: 116​​

Truly a delightful puzzle, Melinda added several double-cut pieces to trick the unwary. The beautiful paper was custom ordered for this project, and you can find out more about her puzzle through her presentation on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4yq9DD9Iec&list=PLZ3OGexrZLsgOckRZWuwb7bs6dPngsV14&index=4​

Side view highlighting 2 layers and triple thick butterfly pieces

Exploded view of the multiple layers

All packed - in puff balls? Who does that. Chris of course!

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Gh'o'sts

Thom Spencer of Jigsaw Art
​Website: www.facebook.com/PuzzleArt​
​Size: Pieces: ​​

Thom Spencer's unique painting techniques and cutting skill are sure to delight. Although it is difficult to convince him to create near-identical puzzles, this year he really blew us away with these brightly colored puzzles with no straight cut in sight! 

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