Precious Little Scraps

I've been trying to tidy up...and play a little bit in the studio. I'm so easily distracted...so it's a slow process. As I excavate my surfaces I'm finding all kinds precious little scraps. Every time I say that phrase I think of my dear friend Connie who had a file for everything....including one labeled "Precious Little Scraps." 

Taking inspiration from the Visual Sentence class I took from Jane Davies....I'm randomly glueing a few tiny scraps together that seem relate in some way. I'm thinking of the scraps as letters...and I'm trying to make little words...and sometimes add an actual little word. These words may get developed into sentences.

The letters in this word include a snippet from a greeting card...a half circle from scrapbook paper and a tiny little cut off from a watercolor experiment. 

I thought they made a sweet little three letter word...all it needed was a little HOPE.

It landed in my joy journal that we made during our last art group exchange. 

It works like a little tab to turn the page and adds a little interest to this small pocket page.

On the opposite page I added a chunk from a snippet roll I found in my stash. It's a lot of snippets glued to adding machine tape then stitched. I didn't love it after I made it.....so it got added to a pile. But a chunk of it works fine here...just for me.

I glued it in to the journal only at the very top and bottom so it acts as a belly band...or another little pocket. I tucked in this faith card that had been hanging on my bulletin board for years. I have feeling that this might be from Melodee W. I'm not sure...but I've always loved the simplicity of it. 

And now I love it tucked in my journal.

I think a precious little scrap project may be brewing inspired by Dotty's Random Acts of Art. 

I will develop the idea a little further....come up with my own name and turn these little word clusters into something I can quietly share around my community.  I think it will be fun. 

Here are more of Dotty's Random Acts of Art hidden around her community. I've enjoyed following along with her project on her blog.