Inspire

Today I'm foregoing Saturday Afternoon at the Movies because it takes as long to write a movie post as it does to make art.  Instead, I'm joining Jo at Let's Art Journal who is our host this month at Art Journal Journey with her theme Something New.

I did something new for me.  I deconstructed three collages I had made previously and added a few new elements, too.

First time seen was this girl I added, along with a piece of card stock I colored using my handmade shimmering mists.

I decided to add the letters of the word and used a felt tip pen to outline them. I also did a bit of doodling around some of the letters.  This was to help bring the left side together with the middle section.

When I deconstructed what is now the right side of the page, I had to replace part of it with a piece of checkered napkin.   It was at that time I also added the bird.

I changed much of the left side and added the punched circle and button at that time.

I think you can see all three sides and how I assembled them. 

I added the fabric and the flowers at the bottom that I had removed from what had originally been the spread from the left side of the original collage.

I stamped the word "Inspire," (the name of the mixed media entry) five times, once upside down (my mistake).

Finally, I had three piece of gold in my embellishments basket, so I used them on the top, middle, and bottom right side of the page.

For this page, I deconstructed three previous collages, added letters, stamping, changed the flowers, and added the fussy cut angel to the bottom left.

I can assure you, this was definitely something new for me.  I think it would might have been easier to start from scratch.  I appreciate you stopping by and following along on this adventure with me.  Please also join Bleubeard and me at Art Journal Journey with your own art inspired by Something New.