Collage ART

When I had my Altered Ladies Group over last night for good food, good company and ART, we had a great time.

The project we did was kind of mindless which can be great to do sometimes, because then there are no rules, no mistakes, no problems.

I asked each of the girls to bring a glue stick and their scraps, you know we all have them, those little pieces of paper which are to big to throw away yet to small to use alone.......I suggested it would be best if they brought scraps in a color family that would go together. I supplies card stock for the base to build on and we began gluing down all of those scraps without rhyme, reason, or even thinking.......some of the girls were really wondering and not liking what they had going on......I assured them it would turn out great, we were creating a new usable piece of paper.....after everything was glued down they could stamp, emboss or do both to give the collage a cohesive look. Then it was time to cut the collage paper into shapes to be used in projects. The picture above shows my collage cut in ATC size pieces waiting to be embellished.

This picture has another portion of the collage paper used to decorate the cover of this small journal.

Get out your scraps and use your creativity to make some wonderful papers, then use those papers on cards, books, tags, ATC's and more!

Just be sure to have fun and remember there are no mistakes just creativity!