Christmas Gift Tags and other Collage Samples

Below:  These stocking-stuffer-sized Christmas gifts were attached to recipients' name labels.  The backs of the name labels were created with stencil- and mask-printed papers that I'd cut into pieces, then reassembled and glued onto a support sheet in crazy-quilt style.  Not shown here are sheets of giftwrap that I created in the same way as these gift tags. 

Christmas gift tags, shown from the back. Not shown are the recipients' names, written on the flip side of the tags.

Oh yes, I've made my share -- or more than my share! -- of collages (usually on stretched canvas) using cut-outs from prints/multi-prints I've developed using stencils and masks from StencilGirlProducts.com.  Most, but not all, are of my own design.  Randon Circles, designed by MaryBeth Shaw, is another favorite that I've used in making some of the multi-prints shown in the collage below.

In the collage above, I've used cut-outs from papers printed with these stencils and masks of my design:

9" x 12" Garden Montage L652

6" x 6" Looking Up Through Trees s793

6" x 6" Garden at Nemours s844

6" x 6" Ski Lift Works s463

For the mixed-media collage below, I started with a background using the subtraction technique described in past posts; for that I used masks in the 6" x 6" series Abstract Composition Backbones 1-4.  In the foreground, I used two cut-outs from a paint-stained mask; on the upper right and in the lower left quadrant: 6" x 6" mask Ornamental Iron Curls s462 . 

Below:  This collage uses mostly prints created with a gel plate, acrylic paints and 6" x 6" Palm Fronds Silhouette s238. 

Below:  This collage uses mostly papers printed with 9" x 12" mask Clustered Leaves L433.  The veined purple snippet in the focal area has to be identified as "origin unknown."  It was cut from an old paper; that's all I remember about it!

Above: This mixed media collage uses prints made with several stencils or masks from StencilGirlProducts.com.  These include the beautiful Branches series designed by Trish McKinney, and a 9" x 12" mask I designed, Tangled Pods L344.

Below:  Yet another mixed-media collage, featuring prints made using   9" x 12" masks Clustered Leaves L433 and Loopy Ladders L434.

Below (in a very small collage):  The star of the show was cut from a print made with 6" x 6" mask Ornamental Iron Curls s462 using acrylic paints of bold red against passive gray.  Along the left much of the left border runs a strip cut from a print developed using 9" x 12" Blooming Where Planted L449.

Here are 2 peeks at the room where all of this printing and assembly happens--  

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