Pink Rose

Brown with a touch of pink. A handwritten document, some old postage stamps, and a scrap of vintage wallpaper.

Blue Star

I was going through my stash of playing cards and found this one with the blue star. It goes perfectly with vintage stamps and an international envelope fragment.

Black Bird and Stars

Here's my first collage in the calendar.  Because the paper is wrinkling on the back from the glue, I'm going to collage only on the right side of the book.

For the bird, I tried an image transfer with Modge Podge. I don't know if I like it since it leaves a shiny residue on the paper. I also used a piece of vintage wallpaper, an old letter and a vintage Hungarian postage stamp. Still needs something....but, you gotta start somewhere.

Spring Butterfly Collage

I thought I'd do a spring-y collage. I used antique French documents including one dated 1898, vintage floral wallpaper and a butterfly stamp from the Republic of Guinea. This collage is available for sale in my collage shop, The Torn Letter.

New Collage

Here are a couple of new collages. Vintage documents, postage stamps, handmade papers - all of my favorite things to collage with. On the first collage, I also used a metal bird and branch with a nice green patina. I purchased them a number of years ago to make some jewelry that never happened.

Soon to be for sale in my Etsy shop TheTornLetter

Five to Go

I made this tag from a vintage postcard (dated on the back 1898!). The purple ink inspired the color scheme so I used purple papers from my stash and vintage postage stamps.

Tag 95

Ok, here is the last of the blue series.

Tag 92 is made from a vintage letter, an old Japanese label, part of a Florentine design envelope and vintage music.

Tag 92

Tag 93 uses vintage wallpaper, part of an  old letter and vintage postage stamps.

Tag 93

More Purple

I have one more tag using the purple letterpress printed floral paper and a vintage stamps.

Tag 74

Passion for Purple

Missed a week due to a 2-day show and no time for photography. But here are 2 new collages. They both use a purple letterpress printed floral pattern, and postage stamps. The first one, Tag 72 uses a British Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde stamp and Tag 73 uses a stamp from Japan.

Tag 72

tag 73

Collages 65 & 66

My first collage today use a vintage French stamp, a part of an old letter and hand made Japanese paper.

Tag 65

My second collage uses a vintage Winston Churchill postage stamp, vintage music, and part of a cigar band.

Tag 66

2 Cents

Slipping in 2 more collages this week. Both are in tans and reds, both use vintage 2 cents postage stamps featuring George Washington. I've also used some vintage tickets and hand made paper.

Tag 63 

Tag 64

Collage Sunday

Two more collages - these both use vintage postage stamps and documents, and hand made papers.

Tag 61

Tag 62

100 Tag collage 41

Tag 41 is on a jumbo tag and uses rubber stamped leaves, a vintage butterfly, hand made papers, and a vintage postage stamp .

Tag 41

100 Tag Collages 34 and 35

I'm a third of the way through my 100 tags but the year is over half done so I'd better get cracking - or collaging- as they say! So, two more collages today.

The first one, Tag 34,  uses vintage paper and music, a coffee filter and rubber stamps.

Tag 34

The second collage uses coffee filters in the background, some vintage documents, and George and Martha Washington postage stamps.

Tag 35

Collage Tag Challenge

I did 4 new tags, all using my little coffee filters. The filters get really nice patterns from the coffee (they smell good too!) and the transparency is nice for layering.

Tag 16

Tag 17

Tag 18

Tag 19

Tag Collage Challenge

I am so behind on posting my tags! So here are 2 for this week.

First is Tag 8, a Love themed tag that was intended for Valentine's Day. I used a vintage postcard to make a tag and then added a Japanese washi paper heart, the word "Love" stamped on an antique document and a cute red vintage label with XO.

Tag 8 - Happy Belated Valentine's Day!

Last weekend, I exhibited at a paper show and purchased some cool tags from one of the other vendors, A Stamp in the Hand. (I would link but their website is down). The tags are made to look like old postcard backs and are larger than my usual hang tags. For Tag 9, I used some vintage wallpaper, a fortune from a fortune cookie, a print of a bird and an old postage stamp with a kiwi bird from New Zealand.

Tag 9 - sending good fortune

Tag Collage Challenge -Tags 4 and 5

Got busy this past weekend and collaged 2 tags.

Tag number 4 uses hand made papers, a vintage document and a coffee filter that I stamped. (The coffee filter is a tiny one that fits a Keurig machine. The filter is the shape of the basket and has a round top which I tear off. Perfect for collaging!)

tag number 4

Tag number 5 uses some hand made marbled paper, a vintage document and a postage stamp.

tag number 5