52 Weeks of Collage Part 2 Week 52

Wow- my last collage of the year! 

Sparkly stars, handmade papers and a fortune for the coming year. 

Good-bye 2017, hello 2018!

collage week 52

52 Weeks of Collage Part 2 Week 51

A little red bird, vintage music, stars and Japanese washi paper scraps.

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52 Weeks of Collage Part 2 Week 50

Tiny little type collage for week 50.

collage week 50

52 Weeks of Collage Part 2 Week 49

I really enjoy doing the 3-D collages on a cube - there's something about turning the cube and having the design flow from side to side. It definitely takes more planning. This week I used hand made Japanese papers, Japanese calligraphy and images of a geisha and a butterfly.

Collage week 49 - Sides 1 and 2

Collage week 49 - Sides 2 and 3

Collage week 49 - Sides 3 and 4

Collage week 49 - Sides 4 and 1

Collage week 49 - Top

Collage cube week 49

52 Weeks of Collage Part 2 Week 48

A vintage Russian postcard, book cover, hand made paper, and a postage stamp.

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52 Weeks of Collage Part 2 Week 47

A lucky 7 and handmade papers on a vintage book cover.

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52 Weeks of Collage Part 2 Week 46

My collage this week started with a photo that reminds me of my grandmother. She was very elegant and I have several pictures from the early 1900's where she is wearing a hat just like this.

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52 Weeks of Collage Part 2 Week 45

Grey, gold and black are the colors this week. Vintage music and documents from France and Japan are combined with washi papers and a rubber stamp pattern.

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52 Weeks of Collage Part 2 Week 44

This week I used part of an old letter, a vintage perfume label and some vintage wallpaper scraps for this small collage.

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52 Weeks of Collage Part 2 Week 43

It's almost Halloween so my collage this week is done in black and orange ...but no pumpkins here. It's a treat with handmade papers, a vintage document scrap and some favorite rubber stamps.

52 Weeks of Collage Part 2 Week 42

Another collage on  a birch wood board, this one started with some hand made marbled paper that I've had in my stash for ages. I also used some vintage ledger papers and a butterfly, keeping in the colors of the marbled paper.

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52 Weeks of Collage Part 2 Week 41

Week 41 is posted late due to internet issues, now solved.

collage week 41

52 Weeks of Collage Part 2 Week 40

This week's collage is done on birch board. I used some antique ledger paper from 1890, vintage wallpaper, and a bird that I printed on a vintage letter. The bird is printed from my hand carved linoleum block and then embellished with pen and ink.

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52 Weeks of Collage Part 2 Week 39

This small collage is on mat board and started with a layer of rubber stamps. I used various hand made papers and a vintage Russian match box label.

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52 Weeks of Collage Part 2 Week 38

This week, I did a collage duo on matboard. These are made from rubber stamps, a scrap of an antique french letter, handmade decorative papers and vintage postage stamps.

Collage week 38

52 Weeks of Collage Part 2 Week 37

Two things I love for collage - vintage documents and birch boards. The boards are someasy to collage on since they are nice and flat. And the edges are square. I've purchased some pretty wonky canvases before - lumpy, not stretched tight and the sided weren't parallel. Makes you wonder if the factory worker was a tad drunk.
So this week, vintage documents on a birch board.

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52 Weeks of Collage Part 2 Week 36

I have a large collection of vintage documents and hand made papers so this week, I dipped into my stash and and came up with papers from India.

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52 Weeks of Collage Part 2 Week 35

Tiny little collage this week using part of a vintage letter, hand made paper from India, a rubber stamp and a postmark from an antique French envelope.

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52 Weeks of Collage Part 2 Week 34

This week, I raided my stash of Reader's Digest Condensed Book covers for another collage base. I printed one of my linoleum blocks onto a vintage envelope. I used some decorative paper for the heart, textured green paper on the edges and a rubber stamp.

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52 Weeks of Collage Part 2 Week 33

Last weekend I went yard sale-ing  and found a really dilapidated copy of Black Beauty dating from 1897. Since the whole thing was already in pieces (I hate to cut up a perfectly good book), I didn't mind using it for collaging. This collage uses the back cover, the spine, one of the illustration pages and some rubber stamps.

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