Collage Challenge - Weeks 15 and 16

Week 15

Prompts:

1) repeating pattern found in nature (magazine image of pink jewel anemone at top of page)

2) something in watercolor (lower left corner - a small watercolor doodle sent by a friend; 

watercolored flowers)

3) something musical (music paper; image of old Victrola)

4) piece of washi tape (floral washi in three places)

5) calendar page or portion of (calendar in lower right)

Bonus: doodle (doodled flowers; also printed paper with doodles)

Week 16

Prompts:

1) weather - whatever that means to you (photograph of a stormy, cloudy sky)

2) person (vintage image of girl)

3) handwriting (vintage paper with handwriting)

4) map (upper left corner)

5) a number (portion of bingo card and also stamped numbers)

Bonus: rubber stamping in 2 different colors (numbers stamped in navy blue and black; 

circles stamped in brown)

I also added some gold paint around the edges of this page to frame it.

 

April Swaps

 I finished three swaps for this month.  The first is a vintage junk journal page.

This is 5" x 7" and is created on a base of an old greeting card. I collaged various pieces of text and neutral papers. The flip-out pocket is half of a window envelope. It is also collaged and hinged to the page with the envelope flap. Inside is a journaling card.

Here is the pocket opened to side.

The back is covered with an old Yahtzee score card, music paper and a printed paper.

For a weekly challenge we had to create a tag and send to one of the members. I used three colors of paint scraped on the tag for the background and then added crackle paste with a palette knife. Once that was dry I used embossing paste through an alphabet stencil and added gold embossing powder. That needed to dry before heating to emboss. I also stamped a very old dragonfly stamp and added some embossing powder to it. I added a button with tiny beads to the stamped image.

And this is the altered trading coin for Aprils theme "spring or Easter." The image is a stamp which is colored with markers and added Wink of Stella for some shimmer. "Spring" is stamped on vellum and the flower pot has Glossy Accents on it.

Wow - life happens!

 Just to update you on what's been happening the past month and why I've been MIA...

In mid-March, after both my husband and I had had our two vaccinations, we went to Mexico for a week to complete some dental work I had started before the pandemic. We returned on a Sat. and then on Thursday flew into Austin to surprise our oldest grandson on his ninth birthday.

We spent the weekend there and returned on Monday. Wed. night our son arrived from London to try to get his vaccinations. Luckily he managed to get his first one two days later at the Walgreens right across the street from us!  We then drove back to Austin so he could see his two nephews and we spent Easter weekend with them.

We returned on the Tuesday after Easter and on Friday flew to Albuquerque with him so he could see his other two nephews. We returned on Monday while he went on to a few business trips.

So, it's been crazy busy and I have done very little art. I hope to change that soon as my husband will be having a knee replacement next Tuesday and we will be homebound for awhile.

Collage Challenge - Weeks 13 & 14

Happy April Fool's Day! Surprise, I'm posting after several day's absence.

 I can't believe it's already been 14 weeks into 2021! Time really does fly! Here are two more Margarete Miller weekly collage challenges.

Week 13

Prompts:

1) a photo (photo taken in Santa Fe years ago)

2) a geometric shape (triangle stamps, rectangle ticket, oval on label)

3) something you see through a window (flower)

4) lines (lines on label and guest check to left of ticket)

5) ticket stub of any kind (ticket)

Bonus:  typewriter text (typed letter, upper left side of page)

Week 14

Prompts:

1) buttons, real, drawn or stamped (button images cut from papers)

2) something royal (Queen Elizabeth postage stamp, Crown Royal whiskey, 

Swedish Royal Guard, 1856 portrait of Princess Royal Victoria)

3) a poem (American poet, Wallace Stevens)

4) a schematic (schematic of car switches)

5) two of something (two postage stamps)

Bonus: something purple (background paper, large postage stamp, ticket)