Earlier this year I received a box of around 50 postcards, all of different Pantone colors, from a good friend of mine. Without much thought I realized these cards lend themselves to having collages created on these colorful backgrounds. So without any planning I went to work using up scraps and little paper bits to …
Global Priority Mail journal
Recently I put together a postal-themed journal for a postal-friend of mine who has sent me some wonderful no-longer-in-use forms and papers from the USPS. I constructed the cover using a flat Global Priority Mail envelope that I cut down for the front and back. I used another envelope to cut the length of the …
Postage stamp art
In the last few months I’ve been playing with postage stamps, using them in collages and art projects here and there. A very talented artist and a friend of mine who is very interested in working with postage stamps, has been working on a postage stamp glue book that I fell in love with. I’ve …
Getting started with collage art
Collage art has become a very important type of art that I work on. The more I do it, the more I love it. When I started doing collages a few years ago I had no idea how to begin or what to do. Now that I have reached a stage where I am much more …
Piecing together a collage journal
The longer I experiment with collage art, the more fun it gets. It’s funny how little bits of paper can get me so excited and enthusiastic about the art of making a journal. Previously I wrote about my trip to San Francisco in January to visit my friend and fellow correspondence-art artist Pamela, and how I fell in …
