Thursday, March 1, 2012

March Collage Challenge

I'm so happy it's the 1st of the month so I can participate in Mary Green's collage challenge. I haven't had enough creative time lately so today I was excited to work on some collage. The challenge is to use at least part of each of the three lovely images that Mary provides.  I wanted to try something different this time because I usually think I am too literal with the pieces. Is that the word I want? Like I try to make a picture with the pieces and everything has to be used correctly? I'm not sure if I'm explaining it right but, whatever, I wanted to try something else. I was inspired by this project on Gingersnap Creations. Samantha Read used a background made with different rubber stamps and then cut the background into strips. That is what I did with the Three Little Kittens music page. I printed two of them and cut strips that were 1/2 inch wide. Then I glued a strip right side up and the next upside down creating a pattern that would frame the lady.


Then I used two of the third piece to create patterns that would ground her. I'm happy with the way it turned out. It may even be my favorite challenge entry that I've done.

Make sure you check out the other entries here. It is always so fun to see what everyone else creates with the same images.

Thanks Mary for having these challenges and thanks for being such a huge creative inspiration to me!

11 comments:

  1. I like how you cut the pieces to make them frame her.

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  2. I love that background,what a brilliant idea!

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  3. Very inventive. Strips are a good solution and I like the color concentrated at the bottom. Good job.

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  4. Nice solution to the challenge!

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  5. Very nice, I never thought of making strips of the music. Also thanks for the nice comment on my Collage. Can't wait for the next Challenge. Have a great evening. Smiles, Carol Mae

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  6. This turned out great! I love the background. I think the music adds such interest.
    Blessings,
    Tricia

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  7. Lovely! Beautifully composed!

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  8. What a great technique. It really lended itself to this project. I like the way you divided up the color pieces on the bottom too!

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  9. I'm right with you on the "too literal" approach. Neat background strip technique--I'll have to try that sometime!

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  10. This is pretty! I love the repeating images.

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