A Little Bit of Collage

I am not really a paper worker but I recently watched some short videos on a Collage Summit that made me think it might be fun to try some of this layering. I started off to make some cards and then decided to continue to make a covered box to house them. On the top of the box I have laminated a small MDF covered piece from making artist trading Cards from a long ago exercise

I started off by laminating a layer of neutral torn papers. It looked pretty messy but when the glue had dried, I added some white and bronze paint by dabbing the paint on with some bubble wrap. You can see how this looked in the second image below. Then I cut up the cards into regular sizes.

To decorate the cards I traced some women’s heads onto tissue paper - the exercise had used Muses. I carefully tore around the images and laminated them on to the individual cards. The tissue paper disappeared with just the drawn image showing, image 3 above. So I began decorating the images with small torn pieces of paper and a little bit of paint. I will probably find some appropriate words to go on them before I am finished. The cards fit neatly into the decorated box