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What’s a gluebook, anyway?

September 12, 2018 By //  by Margarete Miller 10 Comments

a notebook spread is covered with postage stamps

I make a lot of collage art and put them in things like gluebook. But what is a gluebook exactly? There isn’t a definitive answer, but it’s not a difficult idea to wrap your head around. A gluebook is a “book” where you glue things (like a collage) in. The following are some examples: A …

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Inspirational gluebook artists – Mary Green

September 6, 2018 By //  by Margarete Miller 9 Comments

Paper art

I’m sometimes asked who inspires me. I have a list of people whose work in collage art, particularly vintage collage art, really inspire me. The first person I want to mention, and probably the person who has most influenced my love of collaging vintage papers, is Mary Green. Who is Mary Green? I discovered Mary’s …

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The Eclectic-page notebook

March 17, 2018 By //  by Margarete Miller Leave a Comment

Vintage ephemera

Sometimes it’s the background paper that creates the initial spark in me for making a collage, so I decided that I wanted a notebook of a bunch of random papers for collage art. This little notebook then became my gluebook. A couple of years ago I bought a used Zutter Bind-it-all, which is a tool …

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