I Haven't Been Swindling Your Paper - Honest!

Can you believe it?  It was in July that I started the Paper Chase! Some of you may have been wondering if I was ever going to make & send the promised collages, or that maybe I'd skipped town with all that paper. Well, fear not, I'm still here & I'm busily collaging.

I've received 36 packages of paper so far, & although I'm still more than happy to accept people's parcels, I just want to let you all know that it might take me a while before I can post back the collages - I've had a much bigger response than I expected.

Thanks to everyone who's participated so far - I hope you can be patient with me! I've uploaded all the packages I've received to the gallery, but have yet to write the descriptions to the most recently received ones & link to the lovely people who sent them. Hopefully I'll finish updating everything this afternoon.

Here are the first six collages (and the finished stamp that I put on the back of each collage) - I hope the recipients like them! I'll be popping them in the post on Thursday!

I made Collage No.1 for artist Rosa Murillo. You can take a look at the selection of paper she sent me right here. I love Rosa's work & I hope she likes my little collage! The square of paper with the masked woman stamped on it is from a legal document from the 1880s that Rosa sent. The paper has a beautiful crinkly texture that I didn't want to lose by gluing it down, so I cut a little window in the backing card. When you hold it up to the light, that section is kind of luminous - it reminds me of a watermark on a dollar bill.

 

Collage No.2 was made for Smoobage who sent a big pile of amazing vintage 7" record sleeves. I really love the muted, drab colours.

 

Caroline of Peaseblossom Studio sent me some beautifully aged pages from a French dictionary. Collage No.3 reminds me of an 18th century entomological expedition to an exotic island somewhere.

 

Collage No.4 was made for High Desert Diva who sent me a lovely collection of vintage stamps & labels & things that you can take a look at here. I made a green & purple collage for her!

Moving on to Collage No. 5...Mandy sent me a really nice letter with her parcel of paper. She thinks the lining of envelopes are really beautiful (I agree with her!) & sent a little collection to me - I wanted to make her a collage that somehow incorporated their intricate patterns. I think this collage has something to do with the migratory habits of a big brown moth - he flies to Dublin each summer to stay with relatives apparently.

Lastly, one that I just finished this morning - Collage No.6 that now belongs to Joanne, aka Shaving Kit, who sent me a really colourful collection of paper. I wanted to give her collage a storybook feel...

So that's it for now! I may not be able to get started on the next batch of collages for a week or so, since I'm finishing up on some gocco prints that I need to post off to the UK for an exhibition, but I'll keep you posted on any further Paper Chase developments!

Comments

[Mincy]

Those are spectacular! What a great idea - you must be like a kid on Christmas morning opening those packages!

[binal]

OMG these are so so kewl!
I am so can't hardly wait for my paper pack to be made into one of this gem!

You rule, Karena.

HUGS,

Bin

[Tizzalicious]

They all turned out so great!

[gemma jones]

they are all really inspired... such a great project... massive props to magic jelly for being all about true creativity and sharing ... freaking love it x x x x x

[Linda Crispell]

They are wonderful! You must be the hardest working artist in Australia.
Linda

[Julie]

Cool looking collages!

[Lynn]

They are all lovely. You do very nice work.

[Tepimade]

So great!

[shaving kit]

Oh my god. I LURVE my collage. I want to live in it. Storybooks forever..thank you!! It was well worth the wait.... ;)

[shaving kit]

Oh and the little girl with the cigar totally cracks me up. Love it.

[e14studio]

I forgot what I sent you! Thanks for documenting it here to visually remind me. (I'm #37) I can't wait to get your collage. No hurry!
In the meantime, I think I'll challenge myself and make a collage with the papers I sent you that I still have duplicates of.

~Sharon
http://e14studio.blogspot.com

[Carolie]

Excellent! I can't wait. :-)

[puglyfeet]

Those are all beautiful!

[High Desert Diva]

How fun!!!

So glad to have participated. Can't wait for the collage!

[rosa murillo]

I LOVE IT! can't wait to have it in my hands! yay! thank you so much!

[Marlies]

Hi there!

Actually I was just checking back here to see if you received my paper! If it's not too much trouble, can you let me know? I was so excited to send it halfway across the globe! :)

xoxo
Marlies

[claire]

wow these are amazing! such a fab and beautiful idea

[High Desert Diva]

I received my collage!!! Thanks so much.

[Joy Ribisi]

These collages are GORGEOUS!
I can't wait to see more! I'm sure you're having fun with all of these. What a great offer, too. I am so excited to see mine (no rush! just saying!)

xoxoxo

[meg finn]

Such a delightful blog full of mixed media eye candy! Glad someone told me about it :)
Meg

[Sarah Zambiasi Art]

Your art is exciting & beautiful. I have very much enjoyed your BlogSpot.

[Karena (Magic Jelly)]

Gee, thank you so much Sarah! :)

[Little Mo and Friends]

This project is filled with so much fun and goodness! You've made some really lovely collages! I can't pick a favourite but i'd have to say collage 2 is cool! Like an andy warhol kind of print but so much more adoring! xxx

[sell platinum]

Those are really wonderful.