I absolutely love this week’s Freshly Made Sketch. I had already been playing with GelliArts prints making my 4″ square collage for the mini.collage.collective challenge for International Collage Day. I matted it on a metallic copper painted GelliArts print to turn it into a card. I used a 1″ square punch for my sketch card. … Read more
I love the large size of the new Collage papers from STAMPlorations. For today’s cards, I trimmed two different STAMPlorations Botanical Beats Collage Papers down to 5″x7″ for two large cards with lots of room to write a note. For the first one, I covered the card base with the Collage Paper and then topped … Read more
This is a fun birthday collage card for my brother (who is an amazing large scale collage artist) that I made with all sorts of bits and bobs from my stash. I pulled out my glue stick and did a glue-as-you-go method without much preplanning. I started with the Tim Holtz Flash Cards and built … Read more
STAMPlorations is releasing a very awesome new product on March 15th – Collage Papers. I am Guest Designing with the set called Industrial Patchwork. For the first card, I cut one design of paper into strips and then wove the strips together to create the background. Next, I used black ink to stamp multiple images … Read more
Almost a year ago, I participated in the Vintage Magazine Challenge at Contemporary Collage Magazine. I assume enough time has passed that they aren’t going to publish my images, so I thought I would share them here. I had a lot of fun challenging myself with this project. You had to do five collages on … Read more
Shery at STAMPlorations is focusing on growing her store again, and one of the fun things she has added are these great card front sets that she has as part of her subscription series. She graciously sent me the Junk Journal Collage set, and I had a lot of fun creating with them (you can … Read more
This week at Jingle Belles we're asking you to make a card that contains at least one see-through element. It can be a glass embellishment, an acrylic transparency, some vellum, acetate or "ghost" shapes, clear stickers, Lucite buttons, shrink plastic… whatever you like. If you can see through it (AND figure out how to attach it to … Read more
I'm continuing to enjoy making collages that are just under four inches square for #februllage2025 and the @mini.collage.collective. For Day 6 Metal theme, I used metallic Gelliarts prints and foiled papers from my stash. For day 7, I created a collage of my favorite childhood neighborhood while singing "Who are … Read more
The newest challenge at Shopping Our Stash is to create a card with some of those Crafty Remnants that are scattered about your craft table. In my case, they are all in a little box where I store them (something new I started … I used to throw many of them away). Here's … Read more
I had so much fun in my recent collage class that I had to turn some of the tiny collages I made into a card. The assignment was to use a limited number of your collage papers with some asemic writing papers. I added some gold die cut hearts and a simple typed … Read more