Green Paper

Our February Collage Challenge

Time again for our monthly challenge! 

The challenge is to create something - anything at all - including at least part of each of the three images provided on this sheet. And then show it off to the rest of us!

  

You can save the jpg version above, or the easy-print PDF version here:    Download Feb 2012 challenge sheet

 How to play along? 

1. Create a piece of art - anything at all - using at least part of each of the three images.
2. Post your art somewhere on the web - your blog, Flickr account, whatever!
3. Using the Linky below, link us to your web location so we can come and visit. 

That's it!  

The deadline is next Wednesday, February 8th. On the 9th I'll draw a name at random to win a downloadable image collection - The Antique French Dictionary Collection of images, maps and art deco alphabet. This collection is one of my favorites and probably the one I use most often. The price is $18, but the random winner gets it for free. (Or choose something else, I won't be insulted!)

Here's the linky to use to link us to your site:

I can't wait to see what you create! 

Free Image for You...

After I showed my flea market purchases yesterday, Beth Leintz asked if I would post an image of the cover of the autograph album, so here it is. Don't forget to click the image and then click again to get the biggest size.

Since the pages had already fallen out, it was easy to open up the cover and copy both sides and the spine. You could print it and make your own little book cover.  I'd love to see what you make. 

By the way, I mentioned the Collage Club yesterday. You can still join, and you'll receive all of the editions already sent this year - 20 so far! Plus, you'll get the last 4 of the year when the time comes. I won't be doing the Collage Club next year, so this is your chance to get in on what's already happened, and what's to come. Click HERE for more information.

Back from Vacation...

I'm home from my visit to California, where I had a wonderful time.

We did both family (Nica's first birthday!) and tourist-y things. Nica's birthday party was fabulous - just family and a few friends. Nica was cheerful and smiling through the entire thing (actually, she's normally like that) and she seemed to love all of her gifts, as well as the cake.

But the thing you all probably care about the most is my trip to the Rose Bowl Flea Market in Pasadena CA. Hundreds of vendors, miles of aisles.   This is the 3rd time I visited the Rose Bowl Flea and the other 2 time were fabulous. This time, there were some cool things you might have liked...

sweet baby shoes...

burlap...

and more burlap...

and loads and loads of vintage clothes

The last time I went, I bought dozens of cool things. This time, everything seemed overpriced or just boring. There were few books there, and even less ephemera. I had better luck last year when we visited the Pasadena City College Flea. I plan to schedule for the Long Beach Flea next time - I hear that's great!  

So, what did I get? I bought two items. Yep, you read that right, two. But - they're both wonderfully cool, both were affordable and they'll give me hours of gluebooking fun!

One is a 1920s-1930s scrapbook of dozens of cool pictures of people and activities, including swimming, a wedding, graduation, and plenty of family and individual shots.

The other is an 1880s autograph book with loads of pages of sentiment - many decorated with a bit of Victorian scrap.

I'll share something from each with you in this week's Collage Club, so if you're a member, or become one, watch for that.

What else did I do on my trip? I visited the Getty and saw various exhibits, including the Luminous Paper exhibit, which I highly recommend. We went to Universal Studios, where I got a private back lot tour with my sister Kathi, who is head of benefits there. We also went to a free outdoor jazz concert at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and visited some of the exhibits there. One was a small dual Monet/Lichtenstein exhibit of a series of paintings by each artist, both of the Rouen Cathedral.

What did you do while I was gone?

From me to you...

I'm offering a little discount to everyone who'd like to shop in my e-store this month - $5 off your total order - image collections, online classes, Collage Club memberships, or a combination of all three! 

Actually, you could even pick up any of the calendar collections for $5, use the discount and get it for free!

 
Just go to the store: http://www.e-junkie.com/greenpaperpackages. Place your order and use the discount code: aprilshowers (all one word!)

 
That's all there is to it! The discount code is good all month, through April 30th. Shop more than once if you want to, I won't mind.

 
And don't forget to send me a picture of what you make so I can show it on my blog!

Joanna's Lovely Cards...

More amazing art to share, this time from Joanna Krogulec. First a card with a map  image from the free album:

Then a beautiful card using the blended background technique I showed in the Collage Coterie class (and coming up this Sunday in the Green Paper Collage Club. Click HERE for more details):

A big thanks to Joanna for sharing these with us!

Congratulations!

Congratulations to Linda at Lambsworld - she's the winner of the January Collage Challenge!  I'm sorry that I'm a couple days late in announcing this; I kept missing the official name-drawer, my son Jack.

I've been staying busy with the Green Paper Collage Club. If you haven't signed up, there's still plenty of time to join for January, or for the year. You'll receive the first edition within 24 hours and the second will be on it's way to you next Sunday.

I hope you'll join us!

...and now for a musical interlude...

A beautiful song from The Rescues...

And it's just less than 2 weeks to the start of Green Paper Collage Club!

Printing on Bits and Pieces...

You know I like to print images on old paper, like old dictionary pages. 

I recently came into some old sheet music and some of it had to be thrown away. I saved what I could, so I have these brittle strips of the torn sheet music. 

 
I taped them down on a pieces of copier paper and decided to copy a map onto them.

 
They're taped horizontally, so I used a map which was laid out horizontally too.

 

Now I have these cool strips of music-maps...

 
 
I also did some larger pieces vertically...then I copied some flowered end paper onto full sheets of music book pages...

 
  

I know, I know, I've got a weird obsession going here...just bear with me!

Don't forget that the Green Paper Collage Club starts in just 3 weeks, so you still have time to sign up. I hope to see you there!