Everything Papercraft - Collage

Collage is a collection of assorted items organised in a visually appealing or artistic way. Collage techniques have been used for thousands of years, first emerging when paper was created in China around 200BC. These days collage techniques are used in painting, mosaics, wood projects, photo montage and even digital arts.

In papercraft, we arrange papers, photos, embellishments, stamped images and textiles to decorate cards, scrapbook pages and off-the-page projects. Admired for its relatively low cost and endless creative possibilities, collage is still popular today with professional artists and primary school children alike.

STAMPED COLLAGE CARD

Scrap Card #35

I have been collecting fabulous pieces of patterned paper for many, MANY years with the intention of cutting it up to use as embellishments on my cards and scrapbook pages.  Well, here's my first card.  One down, a billion to go...

 

 

My New Year's Resolution

Scrap Card #5

Last month I shared a tutorial on collage cards, and today I've used one of the scrap backgrounds to create a card using the same technique.  I think this is probably my favourite scrap card so far, I love the colours and I really like how all the layering looks.  The inky fingers are definitely worth the result!

 

Tutorial: Collage Cards

I had the best time creating these collage cards using a variety of stamps, papers and water based inks.  Although I think I was a little too experimental with the colours on this first card, it was still lots of fun to throw around different inks and water just to see what happened.  I thoroughly recommend having a go!

 

 

You'll need a piece of watercolour paper, a water pen, spritzing bottle filled with clean water, a collection of stamps, water soluble ink and a dark coloured oil based ink (not shown).

 

 

Start by stamping the background with the lightest coloured inks.  Do some spritzing or use the water pen if desired.

 

Now just add stamps!

 

I used a black, oil based ink for the script and sentiment stamps so it wouldn't react with the water already on the cardstock.  I used a permanent ink pen to draw a small double lined border to frame my image, which I created by stamping on a clean sheet of cardstock and colouring with one of the inks already used in the background.

 

The background for these two cards was created in the same way, except that I used slightly different colours.