For this week's card I decided to go back to my roots of word collage art. I started doing a lot of collage art while in university (for an art degree... go figure), when I was trying to find inspiration for photo's or photo series I was trying to create.
The way I do this is I take a whole bunch of magazines. It doesn't matter what they are as long as you are okay with cutting them up (there are some that I own that would never see scissors). So for me it's old wedding magazines, fashion magazines and sometimes movie magazines. Once I have a few, which is usually 2 to 6 (or more... you can never have too much), I then take my time skimming through the pages.
I will litterally rip out, cut out or whatever anything that might catch my eye. If there's a word that's interesting I cut it out. If there's a picture that I like, I cut it out. If there is anything, even a colour on a page, that my eye is drawn too or I have some sort of reaction too I tend to cut it out. I do this until I feel like I have enough stuff. Sometimes I get a whole bunch of stuff from one source, sometimes it takes a whole bunch of sources for one thing. Keep the magazines because you never know, there has been times I was like "I'm good, got all I need out of this one" then 4 years later the perfect saying was in it. I just wasn't at the point that my eye was drawn too it. (Yes, my husband thinks I'm crazy that I have 2 shelves in my office filed with old magazines)
So this week I didn't pick a theme before creating... I was originally thinking something to do with kids and march break, but that didn't happen. Instead I was drawn to the idea of Inspiration and living uniquely me...
Until next time.
Keep on, Geekin' on.
Angie
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