Collage Challenges - Weeks 38 & 39

Week 38

Prompts:

1) library ephemera (library card)

2) something electronic (watch)

3) washi tape (3 pieces red and white stripe)

4) something red (hat, hair, butterfly, tape)

5) lined paper (background, right side)

Bonus: architecture (Paris building)

Week 39

Prompts:

1) wrapping paper (floral background, lower left)

2) something shaped in oval (ivy stickers, man's portrait)

3) something with legs (bird, elephants)

4) a tree (lower right)

5) something from recycle bin (Event pass advertisement)

Bonus: rubber stamping in any color but black (Field label

and small butterfly)

 

September Vintage Junk Journal Page

 This month's theme for the vintage junk journal page swap was "Autumn Leaves." I created my page from four book pages using a tutorial on Eve's You Tube channel here which results in a total of seven pockets!

I stamped many of my leaf stamps all over the pages with autumn colors, then folded and glued the pockets as detailed in the video. I decorated with a few alcohol-inked metal die cut leaves. Then I had fun filling the pockets with various tags and extra die cut leaves.

Front of page

Here you can see the stamped page better and the various tags and leaf die cuts. I used washi tape on the left edge to reinforce it.

Back of page

And the tags for the two back pockets. The large tag in the back is a decoupaged napkin. The middle one is a decorated paint chip.

Collage Challenges - Weeks 36 & 37

Here are last  week's and this week's 5-prompt collage challenges.

Week 36

Prompts:

1) something dark (dark door, numbers, border)

2) textured paper (handmade brown paper at bottom of page)

3) something round (keyhole sticker - from Trader Joe's - and round postmark tag)

4) paper with repeating pattern (polka dot scrapbook paper - upper right page)

5) a place (old black and white photo of house)

Bonus: a plane (upper middle of page)

Week 37

Prompts:

1) something that starts with S (sunset)

2) text in language other than your native tongue (German - lower left)

3) a car (black and white image of vintage car)

4) translucent paper (patterned vellum - lower right corner)

5) something with fins (fish)

Bonus: a receipt ( Treasurer's Office receipt - upper right)

These two pages came together rather quickly. I even used the bonus on both pages as well as some additional items to complete the collage. I have been using up some old word rub-ons (Tim Holtz or 7 Gypsies?) mostly on first page and lots of number stickers on second page. It feels really good to finish off these really old supplies! (Collage is super for that.)

 

Art Journal Page

 I haven't done any art journaling for awhile so when our online weekly challenge last week was "gypsy" I decided to do a page in my art journal.

I found this pretty gypsy image online and used her as the focal point on a messy background made from leftover paints from other projects. The border is made from rectangles cut from some old wrapping paper and the roses are from a garden catalog. I typed the title, cut it out and outlined with charcoal pencil. I added some Stickles on her scarf, earrings and bracelets and glued gold sequins on the tambourine. 

This was a quick and fun page.

Scrapbooking and Cardmaking

 The past few weeks I've been busy catching up on the four scrapbooks I'm creating for my grand boys. We spent a week all together in Angel Fire, NM, at the end of July and then they went to camp and returned to school in August, so I had lots of photos to document. 36 12"x12" pages later, I'm up-to-date! Hopefully there won't be any more milestones until Halloween!

I've also been making some cards. August is our family's birthday month with five of us having birthdays within one week! So I had quite a few birthday cards to do.

I made this one for my oldest daughter. I had seen a similar card which had been made with Stampin Up stamps, which I didn't have. So I decided to recreate it freehand using some new watercolors I had bought.

Her significant other turned 50 and I made him this z-fold black and gold card. (I didn't take a photo of the one I made but this is the one from Pinterest that I used as inspiration.)

Here are two more abstract watercolor cards I made several weeks ago. I doodled in black pen and added gold watercolor accents.

One of my daughters and her family sent me Tiff's Treats (warm, freshly baked cookies delivered to your door) for my birthday and the box was wrapped with a pretty blue paper embossed with "Happy Birthday." It was too pretty to toss, so I made two cards with it! I simply wrapped it around a white embossed panel and layered on a card.

This one I made for a challenge this summer. I had seen where you could use colored pencils on black card stock, so I tried it with gold-embossed flowers. The sentiment is on a strip of vellum. This turned out really well with just regular Prismacolor colored pencils. Unfortunately I needed it this week so I was glad I had it in my stash.

Here are a few simple ones using up paper scraps, duplicate stampings, a leftover sticker and a beautiful intricate die cut from a friend. (Can you tell I hate throwing anything away?)

Our online group donates cards bimonthly to St. Jude's Children's Hospital and for September we are doing Halloween cards. I repurposed several cards I've received in the past by removing the front of the card and adding to a new card base. It's a way of getting more mileage out of handmade cards and spreading more joy! Here are a few that I repurposed, sometimes adding stickers, Stickles, or other embellishments.

I am also making several of these Halloween cards for the children. I saw several similar cards, but they used a one-inch punch and had three squares across and four down on the card front. I only have a 1 1/4" punch so used three across (I had to trim off a tiny bit off one side of each square for them to fit) and three down. I used the bottom portion for a sentiment. The circle embellishment is stamped with an old Michael's $1 stamp which fit in a 2" circle punch perfectly, layered with a 2 1/4" circle. This is my prototype and I will try to mass produce several more. It is a good use of paper scraps and could be used for any holiday or season. I've even seen a sample using white card stock squares embossed with different embossing folders all on a white card for a wedding, anniversary or even a sympathy card. (I just might have to break down and buy a one-inch square punch!