Honoring International Collage Day

 

I had planned to make something original for Collage Day, but I am still not well and have been trying to get my herbs either outside or planted when I'm not chilling in bed.  Instead, here are a few I've created in the past.

  Maybe you thought I would choose Food Fodder, a recent collage, as a collage of choice.

  Or this one called Tools. 

Instead, I'm going back to my early collages that are SO different from the ones I make today.  I created the following collages and many more (I filled an entire book, in fact) between March and December, 2008.

  Locked:  Pigment ink,  scrapbook paper, paper scraps, embellishments, magazine image.  

  Designed by Architects: scrapbook paper, hand painted paper, magazine images, mica powder added to silverware handles.

    Cry Baby: images from various magazines, computer generated text, and matching background design.  

  The Universe: textured handmade, hand painted background paper, cardboard mats spray painted green and gold, trimmed in gold ink, words and central image from a science book.

  Word: textured background paper, hand painted and stamped (by me) frame, focal image was part of a swap exchange, words are from a magazine. 

  Christmas Kitsch: adorable images fussy cut from a magazine, hearts cut from painted book pages, three tickets, shaving cream paper background. 

  The Ringmaster: fussy cut magazine image, fussy cut botanical book image, ticket. 

  Behind the Eight Ball: Images taken from four different magazines.  Rowboat and eight ball were fussy cut.  Possibly my favorite collage of all.

And finally I give you
The Collage Artist's Tool Box:  Scrapbook paper turned into a collage box, various supplies one would need to create a collage.  Just add glue and scissors.

Thank you for visiting today.  I am delighted you dropped by and spent a bit of time seeing these old collages.