And one for ME! This started out as a collage card a long time ago and I recently added a peacock feather, a tiny feather, and an arrow-head shaped mini stone, then put it all in a shadow box frame. It will hang it over a bookcase -- the top of which is covered with various cats and through which my little cat Lindy likes to weave on soft paws, miraculously never knocking any of the inanimate cats onto the floor!

My first attempt at torn paper landscape. I used all handmade papers, some mine, some purchased.

This was such fun. I used a piece of glossy black cardstock with metallic alcohol inks and then sprayed with rubbing alcohol. Gina Burns taught our stamp group this technique. It lingered in my box for several months until I remembered the woven metallic paper I bought at Marco Papers. I added several metallic paper strips, embellishments and a black and gold hand made paper and then added my little piece on top. This one was snapped up by Mary at the Damselfly shop. I have just bought a couple of interesting metallic frames to make a couple more collages. If you are interested in one, let me know! I call this Metallic Dreams.

This was a mat and frame I bought originally to cross-stitch an apple and wording beneath.
Well, a few years later, I am not into Iris folding and so made the folded apple and then stamped the apple stamp in the bottom cutout. This one is also in my booth for sale.

This collage looks a bit darker than it really is. I started this in a class by Mary Jo McGray. It was fabulous. We used a vintage image and beeswax and then stamped into the warm beeswax with rubber stamps. I added the piece of handmade paper over wire screen at the bottom and the word embellishment at the top(The Good Old Days) and found this frame that fit perfectly. This one is in my booth for sale.

Sorry I cut the edges of the frame off on this one. The frame is a beautiful dark wood with black and gold . I started with a handmade piece of black and gold heavy "crumpled" paper, added a partial piece of a watercolor painting by Bill Tippie (who taught me to paint), and I added various embellishments as well as some strips of Laurel Burch fabric selvages and a fussy cut of one of her fabric angels. The porcupine quill was given to my by my dear friend Lin Frye. This one is in the Damselfly shop.

This is probably my smallest fabric collage to date -- Laurel Burch fabrics and other Egyptian fabrics. This one is in my booth for sale.

This mixed media piece was a lot of fun. I combined both Sherrill Kahn and Laurel Burch fabrics -- my two favorites and added ear rings from yard sales, fibers, and the rubber stamped and embossed wording. This one is at the Damselfly shop.

I love to do collages -- sometimes simple, sometimes "messy!" I had a gorgeous piece of background paper with Asian designs and soft silky threads to it and added a card containing a happi coat and a kimmono which I folded from flowered papers; then I added a cancelled Asian stamp, a metal Asian scent bookmark, and some gold colored coins and charms. This and the one below it are all in my little booth -- for sale -- in Winchester.

Another version of the Asian collage -- mixed media -- primarily blues and golds.

This is the 9 x 12 collage I did at the Galorious Stampers retreat. I knew I'd bought a frame at a yard sale or Goodwill that had copper on it and today I found it. Had to trim the collage to 8 x 10 but it was worth it -- the copper and teal! Wow and I paid all of 50 cents for it. It makes up for the fact that I paid $8.00 for the handmade coffee card on top!! It matched my handmade paper and the colored piece of Tyvek I had so I "had" to buy it. It is made by
M.J. Berry and I bought it at a local arts and crafts fair.