Art and Craft

I've made Margie a lot of notecards over the years...many of them from her own coloring pages.  She's such a great note writer....and how special is it for someone to get a card from her with her own artwork...and a little of my craft. We make a good team!

There's something very soothing about outlining the punched inchies in black sharpie...a perfect mindfully mindless evening activity.  The black edge gives each little square a crisp frame...making them ready for card production.

I'm revisiting the angled placement inspired by my friend Lynn because I don't have to worry about keeping the squares so straight.  I'm not sure if I've written about this process before so I thought I'd show how I do it. It's such a simple useful method for using punched squares from photographs, Christmas cards, recycled art...or whatever.

With a glue stick I randomly start glueing the squares on a piece of card stock. The angle doesn't matter and I use the edge of the square to place the next one.  It always works out in the end.

I keep adding squares in the staggered brick pattern until I fill in all the big spaces.

Next I snip off the extras and use these pieces to fill in the smaller spaces.

I give the whole thing a trim with my rotary cutter and outline it again in sharpie.  Again, that black edge gives it a nice finish.

 

I mounted it on green card stock and glued it onto a blank card. 

For this one I used squares from the same coloring page giving it a nice cohesion.

Sometimes there's the tiniest of spaces that just can't be filled in so I just give that side a little extra trim.                                                                                   

I know you're reading this Margie...so there will be something under the tree that won't be a surprise. Merry Christmas coming!

There are so many fun things you can do with punched squares and I've written many posts about them.  You can click here to see those posts.