I’ve been spending a lot of time in my studio these last couple of months creating fun and beautiful things. My interests have followed along the lines of collage! I use my photos and vintage paper things together in color coordinated pieces. I’ve been making Blank Paper Journals, Blank Greeting Cards, and Tags for this show.
I hope you enjoy what you see because I really enjoy making these things!!
I made 16 3×3 cards using my photographs of mushrooms around my yard, I scanned the 3×3’s and placed two on each greeting card. 
I made hanging tags out of the 3×3 collage cards. 
We have a lot of Queen Anne’s Lace growing along the road. I pressed some and used this one on a card. 
Another example of my collage adventures. 
I took a postcard photo of Mt. Whitney and added some coffee dyed gauze behind a frame to give it texture. Then I added a postage stamp of Devil’s Tower. 
Blank Journals are my favorite to make. They are $15 and come with a list of usage ideas. Bound together by hand with coffee dyed string. 
The inside pages are a variety of papers, maps, gridded, lined, coffee dyed, stamped or embossed. Each one is unique and contains surprise embellishments. 
The daily planner page in this journal is a copy of a page out of the billing planner that Dad kept for his painting business in 1968!
Next are my seasonal cards…..
Time for Pumpkins! 
Beautiful flannel plaids are a theme at Vintage Roost this Fall so I made come cards to go along. 
Time for spooky! 
Sweet, funny kitty with clock eyes. 
I took the photo of this house in Astoria a few months ago, then printed it in black and white. I put it back though my printer to add the beautiful black/blue crow.
Below I made greeting cards for Birthdays and blank cards for any time of giving!
Birthday Greetings! 
A sprig of Lavender from my yard. And held on with cellophane tape that I aged. 
I figured out how to drop out the background in my photos so that I could print a second image on them. 
Dropped out the sky behind my Sunflowers too. 
Today was the first day of Fall Open House at Vintage Roost, so my friend Merla and I went out to breakfast then made a trip to VR to shop! I found a great little tin to keep treasures in….
