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No, not the kind you use junk mail and paper bits blended with water to make a pulp and press it into sheets of handmade papers. This is a trick Mary Green taught us that is a lot less messy and the possibilities are endless. You may remember seeing how I used these in the Mary's December challenge which I posted recently.
Here is one I made using a music sheet and a butterfly plate from an old encyclopedia:
And here is what I made using old book text and an end paper from a book:
I love the look of transparency this gives to the papers. Check out Mary's blog for a detailed look at how to do this on your own.
Rita at Let's Embellish is having a very nice giveaway over at her blog. Hurry over to sign up, it ends on the 16th!
Who wouldn't love to have all of these goodies to play with? Good luck!
Mary has provided three images once again for us to use in anyway we want for her monthly challenge. Here is the collage I have made in my moleskine journal, which I have titled "In the Garden".
I used two background papers that I created by combining a book page with a book inside cover sheet that had beautiful roses on it for the first one; and then I combined some old music paper with a butterfly page from an encyclopedia for the second one. I added some flowers I punched from one of Mary's images to the dress and a couple of small strips music in a couple of places. A red watercolor crayon and some stamped dots finished it off.
Thanks, Mary, for another fun challenge.
In Mary Green's Collage Basics class, for lesson seven we were to make several torn paper backgrounds using a different medium on each - gesso, pastel acrylics, bright acrylics, sepia - or anything with which we wanted to experiment. Here is my background with a sepia image against red and green acrylics:
For lesson eight, we were to take the bright colored background and integrate the vintage sepia image to make it more compatible with the colored background.
Here is my finished piece:
Even though I don't dislike the bright colors; I do prefer to use softer, more vintage-like colors when making a collage with vintage images.
Mary will be introducing a new online venture for 2011, which will be the Green Paper Collage Club. Check out her blog for the details.
Have a great weekend!
Here are two ATC's I have done for the Collage Basics class. We were to try using mostly vintage papers and an embellishment. I have used all vintage papers for the queen and her castle. I put the queen under one of Tim Holtz' fragments for the "embellishment" part of this ATC. All of the papers used for the other ATC are vintage, too. I added some stamping to both ATC's - just a bit of vine for the first and the blackbird and some more vines for the second. There is no embellishment on the second one, but I like it the way it is.
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For these lessons I attempted to combine patterns in a pleasing way and also use the golden mean theory of placement. My collage is done on a 5.5 inch square and I wanted the colors/patterns to be soft and muted. Added a bit of gold paper trim and punched flowers plus gold metallic ink around the perimeter - couldn't resist the urge to add some bling!
Now I am somewhat caught up with Mary's class until tomorrow. It is so much fun to see the creations of others who are taking the class. So much talent out there!
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Mary has wonderful tips on how to blend colors in this lesson. I have tried to merge the orange/gold and blue hues of the kitty picture with the papers I chose for the background layers. A butterfly adds a bit of whimsy, too!
This was a one-page collage in my moleskine - not much space; but I like working within the confined area.
Check out Mary's blog for more information on her Collage Basics class.
