Category Archives: collage

Oct25

Mushroomland

Posted on Monday, October 25, 2010 by Dianne

Mushroomland 4" x 4" Collage, originally uploaded by DianthusMoon.

Having fun with some new papers I got yesterday in Peddler’s Village at a wonderful store called ‘Creative Inklings’. I thought about that store all year! The ‘main’ paper is the mushrooms and the back of that is the orangey red and beige circles.
Here’s the paper goodness I chose and some ink and crackle finish. The ‘Man in the Moon’ is a big chocolate bar and that is the design is the wrapper.

And we enjoyed the wine we got from the Renaissance Faire (though the cork was brittle and we had to push it in and strain it) we bought winde from Chadds Ford Winery. They have a store up in Peddler’s Village too. Funny, because it’s down the road from us. : )

We bought the Apple Spice and Sangria. We let you try the different wines so that was nice.
We went to a mall up there (about 12 miles from Philly) called the Willow Grove mall and brought these home:

Gotta love those chocolate caramel apples.

Oct23

Orange you glad I used oranges?

Posted on Saturday, October 23, 2010 by Dianne

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Orangey 4" x 4" Collage card, originally uploaded by DianthusMoon.

I was playing with tape transfer which is quite fun and easy-see the orange juicer in the middle which took up a lot of space in the collage. I had to cut up the vintage labels a bit. The label on the bottom is from a new drink lid cover. I wove some two tone papers together for the background. So that’s about #57!

Oct22

Falling Leaves

Posted on Friday, October 22, 2010 by Dianne

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Falling Leaves 4" x 4" Collage, originally uploaded by DianthusMoon.

This seems appropriate right now. I wanted the little girl to look like she was walking into the woods with the leaves all around her. Made this after a very loud conversation with a family member. It’s my way to get calm and focused. : )

Oct19

Collage by the Month

Posted on Tuesday, October 19, 2010 by Dianne

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October 4" x 4" Collage card, originally uploaded by DianthusMoon.

This is the little lady card I made yesterday. I only added the pink ‘grass’ today. I saw a fellow collage maker do 12 ATCs with the month and birthstone and I thank her for the idea. Here the birthstone is an opal, under the butterfly. I added a bit of sparkle to it. Sean sure doesn’t care for an opal or a tourmaline which is a pink stone and used for October also.
Then I did September today. I had the Sleeping Beauty art cut out for a while and it seemed to fit on the deep blue color theme I was used. The gem sticker isn’t as blue as a true sapphire, but I will replace it if I find one I like better. I love that clock embellishment and also rubber stamped one and lightly embossed it in sapphire blue.

Oct17

Some collages to share

Posted on Sunday, October 17, 2010 by Dianne

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Peacock 4" x 4" Collage, originally uploaded by DianthusMoon.

I really got busy today after I stuck my roast beef in the oven. I happen to pick the hardest of the trio to work on first, but not knowing what I was doing! ; ) I had gotten a Peacock trio last Saturday at the show and the blue embossed full one I made just didn’t work, so I stamped the head of a Peacock in white on green. It also came with a quote that I stamped around the middle design. The bird is on top of a clothing tag and that is a real Peacock feather. I found use for the full bird and cut it in half for an embellishment.
Then I did the little Brazilian girl from a 1940s book and added a few monkeys. I had started out with the brown map paper underneath.

Finally I used one of the Raphael stickers from a new Dover sticker book I got last weekend. That’s St. Catherine of Alexandria. I think with a few embellishments, it came out nicely.

Oct14

Domestic Goddess II

Posted on Thursday, October 14, 2010 by Dianne

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Domestic Goddess II-4" x 4" Collage card, originally uploaded by DianthusMoon.

Well of course I will do more than one domestic goddess collage! This was pretty easy as I had this gorgeous scrapbook paper with 4 different vintage style ladies and chose the lady with the blue ribbon. I gave her a crown and surrounded her with some dictionary definitions and called it a day.
Next was the remembrance ATC for a Facebook group I am in. ‘The Day of the Dead’ is celebrated in mainly Mexico and by many Latin Americans. I had a difficult time picking someone! I almost did Ben Franklin, but he’s been a subject of mine many times. I chose John Kennedy, Jr. as he was a bit younger than me and a week older than my brother. We sort of grew up together with Caroline-same hairstyles and clothes. When he passed at age 38, I had a hard time digesting that and still find it hard to believe he’s been gone over 11 yrs. He would have been 50 in November.

Then I found some sweet matted frames that my ATCs fit into. Only $1! I hope they get more in at the store.

Yes, went out on a terrible rainy day to ship off packages. One was for eBay (have sold some stuff of Sean’s that he didn’t need) and an autumn exchange for a pal. I will show you what I made her when she tells me she got it. It cost more to ship than to make!
Tomorrow will be made up of howling wind. One reason I shipped things off today.

Oct13

More Halloween fun and no more drip, drip, drip

Posted on Wednesday, October 13, 2010 by Dianne

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Black Hat Society 4" x 4" Collage, originally uploaded by DianthusMoon.

Brian actually picked up the ‘Black Hat Society’ clipping yesterday from a pile that I found in a catalog and I used it today. Someone sent me the admit one tickets and the red sparkly embellishments are new.
Today, I went to wash clothes and a pipe from the kitchen sink was really leaking a lot into the basin under it. The thing is, it’s been leaking for months and months. We called a local company, they were here within an hour and it’s fixed, though my purse hurts, but it’s about time. We have another leak at times, the pipe from the toidy and that was $500 more,so me passed. They don’t just patch it, they replace the entire piece. The new stuff has a 2 year guarantee which is good. We’ve been gradually getting new pipes. We meant to ask him why the hot water pipe in the bathroom vibrates sometimes.
Of course the BIG NEWs was watching the Chilean miners getting rescued. What a joyous time. I didn’t know they had cots, etc. way down 1/2 mile under the ground. They really had it rough for days and the one fellow who is only 19 was so hungry, he dreamt of his mom bringing him food and cried. Heartbreaking.

Oct12

Halloween fun!

Posted on Tuesday, October 12, 2010 by Dianne

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Happy Halloween 4" x 4" Collage, originally uploaded by DianthusMoon.

I started to cut the square for this card from last night’s card and I took a double take. My cards were getting much larger than 4″ x 4″. I don’t know when that happened, but if I could cut off 1/2″ or less to get back to 4″ on a few of the ones I made in the last few weeks.
I try to do at least one duo with pointed hats each year for Halloween. I will probably do another few Halloween ones-remember I have 365 collages to do-minus about 45 now.
Then I made this postcard for a little girl with a brain tumor from Ohio. Reagyn is unselfishly running an effort to collect soda tabs that will help Ronald McDonald come to a big town’s hospital near her. I have her address (which is the school’s address) if you’d like to send her a postcard from where you live and tell her a little about your area. That’s all she asked for.

Today I made an item for a friend, it’s autumnal and I want to send it off before sharing it. It turned out so cute. Brian thinks I should be making lots of stuff like this to sell.
My mom went to the doctor and has a terrible allergy which she say she has seen a lot of lately. Mom’s blood pressure was a little bit high which concerned the doctor, but it may have been because of where she was or is stress related. She tends to jump to conclusions. It was like 156/73. Mom will be in the next town over to get her hearing aides adjusted but didn’t act like she would come over here. I hope she changes her mind.

Oct12

Whirlwind Saturday

Posted on Tuesday, October 12, 2010 by Dianne

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I promised a post about our almost 12 hour daytrip through almost central Pennsylvania. It’s a little late, so I may start it and finish it off in a few hours.
The first part of the trip was to York, PA. which is about 1.5 hours away (known as the ‘factory tour capital of the world’-Harley Davidson has one during the week). I wanted to attend a rubber stamping/paper crafts show. Here are a few photos from a great vendor and artist-Stampland. The man sitting over on the right took a shine to me and said he’d vote for my ATCs in the contest. Alas, I don’t think I won as I didn’t get any email. One of the other vendors said it’s better to come on Sunday as you have a better chance of winning, but they were all put in a binder, so I hope mine would have stood out. The theme was ‘O Christmas Tree’. I don’t even know if I’m getting them back

Here’s some of the wonderful stamps and techniques from Stampland:

I had been dropped off for a few hours. I gave Sean the address as Brian and him don’t know their way around York. I did quite a bit of shopping too:

I was of course looking for unusual stamps. They are quite pricey. I like detailed ones the best and can’t wait to use this one:

I traded three original ATCs and got some ‘cookie cutter’ ones’-they made all of the same ones to trade.

We got to see lots of pretty farms like this:
(taken out of the car window)

I have wanted to see Bube’s Brewery in Mount Joy since I read about it on the web. It has catacombs. We arrived too early to eat and Sean didn’t want to go back after our next stop. We went down these steep steps, very hard on the feet and knees:

This is about 30 feet underground!
I thought of Zoey and how she would like to eat in the catacombs with just candlelight. A friend had been here and told me on Facebook that the food is delivered by pulleys as the kitchen is far away. Maybe someday we’ll venture back
there as the menu looked good!

So I was disappointed we didn’t stay at Bube’s longer (which is pronounced-well someone told me boo-bees). I had helped myself to a flyer about the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire and we saw it was 12 miles going closer to home, so we went. I think I will post about that in a few hours.

Oct11

Smile through a near mess

Posted on Monday, October 11, 2010 by Dianne

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Smile 4" x 4" Collage, originally uploaded by DianthusMoon.

This was almost a disaster! I had gotten some of that neat ink you spray and unscrewed the top from the bottle when I was trying to get the plastic off. Ink was everywhere-I even have it on a few toes. I went to spray my paper here and it was a bit heavier than I would have liked, but I don’t like to toss things I think I can fix. I added the peacock stamp (new) and embossed it.
The rest are stickers. It’s one of my favorite found images and I have done her on an ATC also.