Silly Scraps Saturday

a little paper quilt made from these scraps:

Silly Scraps Saturday

Now we have a color coordinated two page spread:

Here are the scraps I used:

Silly Scraps Saturday

Silly Scraps Saturday

A bookmark made from these scraps:

Silly Scraps Saturday

I did cut into a pristine 3"x 3" piece of origami paper for this "Notan" experiment, so I'm not sure it qualifies as a "scrap", but it's my blog, right?

I've been wanting to try Notan for awhile, and this post by Diana Trout inspired me.  I haven't got the book yet so I just used her video.

Silly Scraps Saturday

April is tax season and this month has disappeared in a blur.  I've been doing a bit of simple journaling of the "cut and paste" variety, inspired mostly by my talented friend Penelope who is teaching an art journaling class at the local community centre.  I haven't been able to attend but she started a fabulous blog full of inspiration!  Check it out if you want to start a simple art journal.

Silly Scraps Saturday

Shades of Spring

ATC, collage, handmade stamp

Silly Scraps Saturday - My Room

Stamps by Rubbermoon and Studio G

Last week I posted my imaginary town.  This is a room inside my house.

Silly Scraps Saturday - My Town

In my town, there would be bright red houses and lots of ducks and geese!

Silly Scraps Saturday

Silly Scraps Saturday

Time is getting away from me somehow.  But it is still Saturday and time for some scraptivity!

Silly Scraps Saturday

Today we're finishing artist trading cards for tomorrow's swap.  Here are the scraps I used:

Silly Scraps Saturday

I can't stop making these.

Here are the scraps I used:

Silly Scraps Saturday

Mosaic bookmarks are a great way to use up scraps!  These ones were inspired by a lovely scrapbook paper that has watercolor-like blocks of color.  Here are the scraps I used:

Silly Scraps Saturday

I'm borrowing from one of my favorite stamp (and mixed media) artists today, Stamping Mathilda.  (Not only is she a talented artist, but she is a great photographer too.)

I love her Sunday Scraps series, in which she creates something out of scraps.  I have a lot of watercolored scraps that could have gone in the garbage bin years ago, but for some reason I couldn't bring myself to throw them away.

To make a few bookmarks I cut a larger watercolored piece into 2" strips and drew on them with a black Stabilo pencil.  Then, I applied more paint to the backgrounds only.

This worked so well that I made some Artist Trading Cards for tomorrow's swap.  Here are a couple of those too:

Next time I'll try and remember to take a picture of the scraps before I turn them into something else.

Silly Scraps Saturday

Silly Scraps Saturday

Silly Scraps Saturday

4" x 4"

Silly Scraps Saturday

4" x 4"

Hand Carved Stamp

Silly Scraps Saturday

Inspired by this, at Peony and Parakeet, I decided to try my own version.  Paivi demonstrated a simple loop pattern in her tutorial, but I used the alphabet.

Script on Watercolor

 Next, I added the brighter marker:

And finally, the pattern in white: