Karla Nathan is having a blog link challenge on her blog this week. You can visit her blog here
Karla's Cottage and check it out. I am "up for the challenge" today, so here is my post for her blog link challenge.
The idea is to post pictures of things you've created using those items you love to collect but are reluctant to use. Here's a corner of a collage I made and the items I hesitated to use were the tiny aspirin tin with the stamp of the Christ child inside it, the vintage buttons and the tiny bottles. The colorful rock was also something I decided to put there, but it isn't glued down. See? I can use it somewhere else maybe.
Here is a very pretty pin I decided (after much debate) that it made the cover of this old album.
But, I also used a lot of other items on this old album cover to give it a really vintage feel. Like the hat feather that I attached a pin nib to, the old buttons, and that great old coffee dyed trim at the bottom.
This is another page from this big album where I used a lot of items I had been saving for a while. Like the vintage orange flower corsage, more vintage buttons, vintage trim (left of the photo) and at the bottom. I sometimes hate to use small bits of trims because I have so little of it. But at times, "my artistic side" thinks better of it and I use the bits.
I love this little journal that I covered. What I had on hand was the little wood button with the bee on it at the top. Again, I hated to use it because I only have two of them. Later decided it was just what the journal needed.
OK, now it is time for you to go over to Karla's blog and check out all the other blogs that have linked to hers with their great pics and ideas. Go ahead! Take a look!!
The cover is an page from an old photo album I bought that was falling apart. The bird picture is actually a piece of wallpaper.
Here is Joy's relative that you saw a while back. I imagined that this was her botanical book and she put it together with just what she could find. There is a "certificate of merit" just under her picture and I like to think that her teacher liked her book and gave her the certificate for doing such a fine job. There are tags and journaling papers on the other page for her to fill out with her notes while she collected her botanicals.
More tags in pockets and more journaling space. Also a "bird" word card.
Here I made a pocket out of stiff interfacing and put a pretty postcard in it with butterflies.
Here is a birdnest that perhaps she could have sketched or collected. There is a bird tag tucked in the back of the nest. The birds on the other page are mounted on a piece of wall paper that was folded in half and sewn together. The tiny tag on the left holds (perhaps) a feather from one of those birds.
Here is a picture of her best friend who helped her collect the things for the botanicals book: butterflies, bird's eggs, flowers, etc.
More favorite things: fabric flowers, pictures of birds, a game card with an envelope that has a tag with feathers on it.
The back side of the game card has my favorite twig chair stamp and a bird attached. The opposite page has some of that wonderful woven paper that I threaded ribbon through so it could hold tags.
These are the last two pages with shells, a bug, and a wonderful bird cage. I used a lot of the Graphics 45 papers, vintage papers, some things by Catherine Moore (the bird cage and the twig chair stamp), heavy paper to paint on with acrylics matching the colors in the papers. It was a lengthy project. Glad I put it away for awhile and then took it out again. The "rest" from it gave me the boost to finish it today.
