Collage Challenges #19

I am a little behind with the 5-prompt collage challenges from Margarete Miller. Last week was the 19th week. The prompts were posted on Monday, May 4, and I just finished the collage today.

Collage #19

Prompts:

1) something heavy (great white shark image from magazine)

2) something written or drawn in pencil (prompts written on star)

3) a piece of calendar (upper left corner)

4) art scrap (gelli plate scrap, upper center)

5) gum or cough drop wrapper

Bonus: tissue paper or napkin (blue napkin in lower left corner)

I didn't use #5 as we don't chew gum and the cough drop wrappers I had didn't go with these colors at all. Luckily I had plenty of napkins to choose from for the bonus. The other patterned papers in the background are all the linings of security envelopes.

Collage Challenge - #12, 13 & 14

I'm still playing catch-up with the 5-prompt collage challenge by Margarete Miller. She has been posting one challenge per week since the beginning of the year but I joined in somewhat late.

Here are three more challenges I finished a few weeks ago.

Challenge 12

Prompts

1) money (the fake - Russian? - bill in lower right)

2) something that starts with F (fall foliage; flag)

3) something drawn or written in pencil (I wrote the prompts in pencil

on the red patterned paper, upper right corner)

4) coarse paper (red and green handmade papers)

5) a label (red label)

Bonus: flag (Mexican flag since the colors went with my collage)

Challenge 13

Prompts

1) something orange (paper on right, butterfly and flower)

2) something with claws (panda bear)

3) bell/bells (bells on stamps)

4) stripes or striped paper (two black and white security

envelope linings)

5) calligraphy (my horrid attempt at calligraphy for the sentiment - 

certainly need to work on that more!)

Bonus: numbers (a rubber stamp image from a catalog)

Challenge 14

Prompts

1) something wet (picture of seashore)

2) lavender - color of plant (in several papers and also flower)

3) game piece or piece of puzzle (puzzle piece that I sanded because it was too 

bright for the page)

4) paper in soft colors (many of the papers)

5) business card or portion (Rae Missigman's card in upper left corner)

Bonus: sticker (vellum flower sticker)

As you can see, by the time I got to the 13th and 14th challenges, I stopped adding the prompts to the pages. It was getting harder to find creative ways to add them to the pages and be cohesive with the collages. I will probably add a list to the back of the book when I'm finished.