Canvas to the Imagination

Presenting a few more of the recent paper cut collage designs. These three are my favorites, especially the first two on the page because of the colour and paper choices. The best part about making these is playing around with origami paper and trying out different combinations together.

Paper Cut Collage 8″ x 8″ | Etsy listing

Paper Cut Collage 8″ x 8″ | Etsy listing

Paper Cut Collage 6″ x 6″ | Etsy listing

Each one is available for purchase in my Etsy shop.

With all the bird and flowering tree watching I tend do, it’s no surprise both have made their way into these two recent collages.

These evolved even more spontaneously than usual. I chose pieces of sewing pattern paper and glued them down as the backgrounds for each before deciding what else I would do. It worked out very well, especially the top one with the lines suggesting the branches of a Sakura tree.

The materials used in these are the same as previous collages; sewing pattern paper, security envelopes, book page scraps, and red paper. I created the flower shapes using a paper punch rather than freehand cutting as I usually do.

These are not yet listed on Etsy, but will be later this week. Thanks to a conversation with my fellow artists I’m rethinking how I price some of the recent work I’ve created.

These days I’m switching back and forth between paper cuts and collages as I prepare work for Got Craft and beyond. These two are the latest in the bird collages on wooden panel. I really like them.

I’ve been holding onto a few scrap pieces of book pages I’d cut shapes from and made use of them in these two finished pieces. Note the book page at the top of the Black Oyster Catcher collage, and the one at the bottom of the Sandpiper collage to see what I mean.

Sandpiper Collage | 10″ x 10″ | Etsy Listing

Black Oyster Catcher Collage | 10″ x 10″ | Etsy Listing

Both are available for purchase through my Etsy shop.