A few minutes of fun - Meadow Postcard Collages
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- A Few Minutes of Fun
In this series you can join me at the craft table once a week for a few minutes of art and craft creativity - between fifteen and thirty minutes usually, depending what we're playing with.
This quartet of Meadow Postcards come to life with some simple collaging over the embossed watercolour backgrounds from a previous episode (watch me create the backgrounds here - • A few (more) minutes o... ).
I'm using mostly Tim Holtz Idea-ology elements (widely available)... the Paper Dolls, Film Strip Ribbon, Number Snippets and Curator Labels, plus some dried seedheads gathered on a forest walk. There are also some washi tapes from Finnish company Paper Garden. See their beautiful products here: shop.papergard...
Also used: my PaperArtsy EAB34 Cornflower Edition stamps; Ranger Ink Distress Crayon in Picket Fence; Archival Ink Pad - Olive; Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher Stapler; Tim Holtz scissors by Tonic Studios; Tim Holtz Design Tape; PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic - Snowflake
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I very much love your style and attention and appreciation to detail and letting it be. I kinda scream inside when someone makes a gorgeous background or take a glorious Tim paper and then covers ever inch with another layer and then covers every inch of that layer so the previous layers are totally obliterated. I love how you let those little details shine and like you said sometimes they do get covered up for the sake of allowing the rest to shine but you the artist know they are there😁 thank you for sharing your few minutes of fun with us, I know I enjoyed it😁😁💕
Thank you so much for that lovely, thoughtful comment. It's those little peeks at the background layers which give the whole thing depth and extra meaning for me. It can hurt sometimes when you lose a favourite little detail, but as you say, I know it's there!
So happy that you enjoyed watching these come to life - I really did have lots of fun with them.
@@w0rdsandp1ctures I know you did, the prettiest work always comes out of when you are enjoying the creating😁 it’s all about the little details for me also when I see a treasure peeking out to say hello 😁
Thank you so much Alison I really really enjoyed watching you decorate those backgrounds and I really love ❤❤❤❤ each and every one of them. Please stay safe and well too xxxx Mags ❤❤❤❤❤
I always enjoy working in multiples - it seems to satisfy my creative brain and heart simultaneously! Thank you so much for another lovely comment.
Love watching all of your techniques and hearing your thought process while creating! Love using round elements in collage…I can never find enough. Love the composition, soft colors and the paper dolls! Brilliant!!!💖
Thank you for that lovely comment - I'm so happy to hear you are enjoying the videos. I agree about round elements for collaging... I've tried to include round ephemera on a number of my stamp sets, because I love that variation of shape it gives you. Thanks so much for your company on this creative journey.
Another gorgeous layout. Thanks kindly for sharing❤️🇨🇦
Happy you enjoyed it - have a lovely Sunday!
I love listening to and watching you create the lovely postcards. Your work is magical and always inspiring. Thank you for sharing! Love “highlit!”
Such a lovely comment... thank you so much. I agree - I think I'm going to adopt "highlit"!!
It’s so refreshing to see your work and thought processes. I enjoy watching others’ creativity but have become tired of everything turning out the same, especially using Tim Holtz’ products. Now, at last, I am seeing something different that speaks to me.
That's great to hear. I find the products (inks, stamps, ephemera) are a wonderful starting point, and then I love to see how they interact with my creative imagination. I'm so happy that you are enjoying the results of that interaction! Thank you so much for watching and for your lovely comment.
I enjoyed all the different stages of these very beautiful and poetic creations ❤
That makes me so happy... thank you so much for watching and for your lovely comment.
What fun watching you create.
Delighted you had fun watching. I hope you'll be inspired to play too! Thanks so much for your lovely comment.
Love these - so enjoy watching the process - love your videos - thank you for sharing
So happy to hear that - thank you for taking the time to let me know.
Thank you Alison! It’s such a pleasure to watch you create while having a cup of tea.
That's lovely to know - tea and creativity - what could be better? (Well, coffee, if you're me... but otherwise!) Happy Sunday to you.
Love them and love your playfulness!
Thank you so much for that... there's nothing I take more seriously than playfulness!
I love how you turned these gorgeous backgrounds into these amazing cards😍 I learn so much to see how you placed all those pieces on it, make such a great composition and make everything fall into place♥️ Thanks Alison for the inspiration and have a wonderful weekend❣️
Thank you so much for that lovely comment, Edith!
Beautiful! I love listening to the way you make decisions for your layouts.
Happy to hear you enjoy the thinking-out-loud as well as the artwork! Thanks so much for watching and commenting.
Love love love these. I’m saying put the circle in the front, you did! I enjoy your channel very much!
Oh, good... happy the circle placement worked for you!! Thanks so much for your company on this creative journey.
I enjoy watching you work thank you.
That's lovely to know - thanks so much for watching and commenting.
Really enjoyed watching you have some creative fun and the end results are amazing Alison x Thank you for the inspiration ❤
Thank you so much - happy you enjoyed it. Have a lovely weekend.
So beautiful! Everything just matches perfectly, I love them.❤
Thank you very much - I like to find harmony in the colours and elements.
Another inspiring few minutes of fun ❤
Thank you so much for watching and commenting!
So much fun! Hugs, treen 💕💕💕
Thanks so much, Treen... I certainly had fun!!
Hi Alison! You may have guessed that I’ve been binge watching your videos lol. Another brilliant one hon! 😊💚🇦🇺xxx
That's great to hear - very happy to have your company on this creative journey!
Thanks Alison! I truly enjoyed your video! I will get to trying a version of this when I am back home from vacation! Amazing work from you, always!❤
Hope you're having a wonderful vacation - and thank you so much for taking the time to watch and comment, even though you're away!
Wow! These turned out dreamy ❤❤❤❤❤!!!
Thank you so much - happy you like them.
Hello Alison! These Meadow Postcard Collages are just lovely! All the elements worked so well together - I love that film strip tape although I haven’t actually used it yet so that’s another item to add to my list of supplies to USE… Thanks for sharing your creativity and inspiration! Have a wonderful week!!! 🙂
I've always loved the film strip, for its light-catching qualities as well as (as I mentioned) being able to see through it to the backgrounds beneath. And there's something about old film which is so evocative too.
Have a great week too.
Love these. Can't wait to try this. Thank you!
Thank you so much - hope you have lots of fun playing.
Beautifully done and so subtle 💕
Thank you so much for that lovely comment.
Glad I found you today. Such lovely makes! TFS. From Gladys Ward. 😻
Happy you found your way here, Gladys - welcome! So good to hear you are enjoying what's on offer. Thank you so much for watching and commenting.
Love this, I'm in ghe middle of trying my own now after you're wonderful teaching
Thankyou Alison ❤
Oh, fabulous... so happy to hear you've been inspired to have your very own few minutes of fun!
So pretty love them
Thank you - happy to hear that.
They are beautiful!
Thank you, Helen 💙💚
So beautiful...as always
Thank you - happy you enjoyed it!
So, so beautiful🥰
Happy you love them - thank you for taking the time to let me know.
These are beautiful!
Thank you so much - I definitely had fun with them.
Love these ❤
Thank you - that's lovely to hear!
Love it! I’m going to make Christmas cards again this year and I’m going to incorporate this idea. Thanks! Those are awesome!❤
Oh, yes, that will work beautifully. I did 24 tags one year, many of them with the winter Paper Dolls, and had a lovely time with them all! Thanks so much for watching and commenting.
These are wonderful
Thank you - I had a lovely time with them.
Lovely!
Thank you!
Hi Alison, I’m so happy I found you. I’m a big Tim Holtz fan and had not heard of his film strip ribbon. Of course, I’ve ordered a roll. 😊. I also love his tiny curator snippets. Your work always amazes me. I love how your mind works and that you narrate your thoughts. ❤
Happy you found your way here! Tim Holtz's Distress Inks are the whole reason I started this creative journey twelve years ago... I don't know where I'd be without his amazing inks, stamps, dies, stencils and - of course - Idea-ology delights!
I'm so happy that you enjoy the thinking-out-loud as well as the work itself. Thank you so much for watching and commenting.
Lovely❤
Thank you so much!
I love your name Alison 😉 😉 but mostly love your wonderful works of art!
Right back at you, Alyson! And thank you for the lovely comment!
sublime !
Thank you so much!
Watching you create your art is mesmerizing. The layering of the simple techniques renders beautiful art. Thank you for posting your processes. 💜🎨
Oh, that's so lovely to hear - thank you so much for your company on this creative journey, and for your lovely comment.
Lovely
Thanks so much.
I so enjoy waking up to getting to watch your process as you create such beautiful little artworks!
Thank you so much for that... very happy to start your day off with some art inspiration!
I love what you have done with those gorgeous backgrounds. The focal points work so well without detracting from the watercolour. (I don't have the film strip, but I have a film strip die, so time to experiment, I think!) Your videos are really informative and a delight to watch. Thank you.
Oh, you'll definitely be able to work something out with the film strip die - have fun experimenting! So happy to hear you enjoy the videos - thank you very much for such lovely feedback.
YOU aresoooo talented ❤️❤️❤️
That's so kind - thank you!
❤ I’m totally blown away by this cards, works of art. So beautiful! Thanks Alison!
Thank you so much for that lovely comment - delighted you enjoyed it all so much.
These turned put so beautiful. The children are talking to me. I can easily see and understand the stories they are telling.
That's what happens to me too... the joy of the Paper Dolls! Thank you so much for your company on this creative journey, and have a lovely weekend.
How beautiful these precious masterpieces are 😊.....thankyou.
Thank you so much for that lovely comment.
Love, love, love ❤
Happy to hear that. Thank you so much for taking the time to let me know.
Precious! ……..just precious!
Thank you so much - happy you like them!
Now may I ask what you do with these. I know you call the postcards. i think they would make beautiful ANYTHING! I could watch you all day create. Simply gorgeous ❤
For the most part, I don't feel the urge to "do" anything with them - they are small artworks in their own right. And the joy for me is in the making. Their purpose is served... I'm not quite sure what you "do" with any art!
One could frame them individually or as a set, but mine mostly live upright in crates or boxes around my studio, to be flipped through for inspiration or for pleasure. They could be card toppers or go in a journal (the flowers would get flattened, but that's fine by me if that's where they're going - flowers should be pressed in a book).
Thanks so much for watching and commenting. I'm so happy you're enjoying the videos.
@@w0rdsandp1ctures I’m a card maker and think they would be great cards. Thanks for answering ❤️
I love watching you collage and I enjoy your wonderful commentary, giggles and the smile I think we all hear in your voice ! Beautiful work, a question about your seed heads and grasses, do you just dry them or treat them in some way? I thought they may become brittle? Thank you
What lovely feedback, thank you - happy you are enjoying the videos so much - and yes, I'm usually smiling... I'm having fun!!
Obviously, dried flowers are always going to be somewhat fragile even if you coat them with matte or multi medium (I don't usually, but it has been known). But I've been adding twigs, dried stems and seedheads to my artworks for years now, and they're all fine. The occasional floret or tiny piece of twig breaks off, but the delicate ephemerality of the work is part of its beauty, I think. I'm not making these to last for centuries!
When I glue flowers or seedheads into journal pages, then I will usually seal over the top with additional glue or medium, but I can't really see any difference between those that I've done that to and those that I haven't.
These cards are beautiful - moody, yet light and airy at the same time. Since the figures and the dried plants are only stapled, how do they hold up without getting damaged? How do you use these cards? How do you store them? I am learning so much from watching you create. Thanks so much.
Thank you - love the moody yet airy thought (that's me!). And I'm delighted you are enjoying the videos.
Obviously, you can't hurl these around without paying attention. Dried flowers are always going to be fragile even if you coat them with matte or multi medium (I don't usually, but it has been known). But I've been adding dried stems and seedheads to my artworks for years now, and they're all fine. There's no problem with the figures - they are flat to the card, so you'd have to work quite hard to damage them.
If you've seen any of my Tag Crate videos in the Shorts, these postcards are often stored similarly, stacked upright in a crate or box for flipping through. Or you can frame them and hang them on the wall. Or I also have some dangling from clips on my Tim Holtz Clip Carousel (sadly no longer available, unless you can find one hiding in somebody's stock room somewhere... www.createncraft.com/product/advantus-idea-ology-clip-carousel/ )
You could use them as card toppers (as long as you add tissue around them for delivery purposes), or in a journal page, as long as you can live with a little flattening to the surface of the page. In that case, I would probably glue down the individual seedheads after closing the book to see where they "land". If I knew I was going to be posting them, I'd use sturdier flower heads, probably.
Hope that helps.
@@w0rdsandp1ctures I so appreciate your insights. I plan on doing some "experimenting" - though I just need the confidence to try. Thank you!!
Experiment away... it's all about playing, and seeing where you end up.
Don't aim for a result exactly like something else you've seen - you won't get the same thing. I don't get the same thing twice myself, even if I use the same ingredients and method - that's the joy of making art.
So play with colours that make you happy, and explore. After all, it's not life and death... what's the worst that can happen?! You might end up with something you don't like very much - but it's just a bit of paint and paper. Start again with some fresh paint and paper and experiment again. The playing is most of the point for me, not the results...
now to find the painting inking u did before this
Hope you found it - let me know if not, and I can point you in the right direction!
@@w0rdsandp1ctures can you send me a link thanks!!
I should have said the link is (of course) in the description below the video... I pretty much always do that as long as I remember! But here it is too - ua-cam.com/video/9x11FOD6pWI/v-deo.html
@@w0rdsandp1ctures thanks!!