Dear Friends~
As I mentioned before, I've been thinking about all the things I want to try this year and making lots of lists...like I ever will get to half of them. One thing I've learned for sure is that I'm on a journey. It's hard to move on to something when one thing can fascinate you for hours..Speaking of squares, one of the things I've been doing with leftovers fro my square project is taking the square punched backgrounds and making them into postcard quilts. Here are a few I did the other night. This is a very relaxing activity for me when I sit and watch movies at night with my hub, or if he's watching "the game, any game" and I'm sittin' with him. I love using up these bits to make these.
These are super fun and easy to make. First you just punch out squares from whatever scraps you have leftover as well as your fave catalogs or junk mail. It's fun to randomly stick them together and see what emerges! As I've said before, if you are interested in collage, it's good to keep a shoebox to put things in that appeal to you as you come across them. Then when you are ready to sit down, you have collage fodder you like, all in one place. Now, I gotta tell you, when you are a paper-a-holic, it's major league difficult to throw away paper...at least for me it is, but I will tell you some of my favorite things to save.
~Catalogs with vibrant colors.
~photocopied poetry (sometimes papers from my kids homework)
~maps from brochures while travelling
~older copies of my fave magazines
~vintage magazine covers (these are usually vibrant in color and a bit sturdier that the pages)
~movie tickets (yes, I've used these for square backgrounds and in regular collages)
So, as you can see, nothing is really off-limits, but it is good to access the sturdiness factor when working on small pieces.
I decided to experiment with ink on one of these (the lower right one). I really love using ink, but it takes some getting used to...but it does have a way of spicing up the ordinary. Well, off I go to work on those lists...be back soon! Hope you'll try making some square postcard quilts. xo lia
