Vintage Envelope Collage Project 01

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 The fall project for the NW Collage Society has been to create collages on vintage envelopes.  Each member who chose to participate creates five or six collages sharing one with others in their group. If a member wishes they can bind their received collaged envelopes using the Japanese stab binding.  I created a video teaching the process which will be sent to participants in early January.

Tiny Tome 09

 

I could not get the tome to lie open without the help of some heavy scissors.  I love adding text to a spread.  Taking a page out of a children’s reader and using parts of sentences to create something new to say was a fun challenge…elementary but still a challenge.

Tiny Tome 08

 You saw a preview of the stitching portion of this spread yesterday as the left stitched side wraps around to the previous spread.  When I look at a photo of one of the spreads in these tiny tomes I am always surprised that when open the spread is really only the size of a credit card.

Tiny Tome 07

 Much of the background on this spread I created using iColorama.  The result was printed on tissue paper.  On the right you can see stitching from a piece that I wrapped around from the next spread to this one. 

Tiny Tome 06

 

This one is very simple.  I am not adding anything more to the left side nor the right.  The bird, the hand, and the stenciled lettering seem enough to me.  Each of the little circles on the left are actually tiny mirrors.

Tiny Tome 05

 

Prior to Covid every October I went to something in Seattle called Zero Landfill.  All sorts of interesting things could be found and it was all free just for the taking.  I found a box of shear fabric samples.  You can see one little portion of a shear piece with opaque white lines above.  So that is what you are looking at on this spread.

Tiny Tome 04

 

I particularly like how the composition came together, cloth stitching, images, frayed edges.  Even the shadows seem to be interesting in this photo of this spread.