Red, Green...NOT Christmas

A challenge came up in my "Cardmaking" group to make a card using red and green but having nothing to do with Christmas.

 

I searched the web for pictures that only had red or green as the major colors.  I found nine of them and changed all of their sizes to 1 inch squares.  I mounted them on a slightly bigger square of black.  I cut one red and one green square and then cut those squares in diagonal quarters.  I arranged two red and two green triangles into a square and glued it to the black card base.  Lastly I arranged and glued down all the pictures.  This is not exactly a serendipity design but close.

What a Pane :-)

I was looking for a new way to use a favorite stamp of mine..."Correspondence/Quill Collage from Hampton Art Stamps.  I stamped the image on white paper with brown ink and then used my watercolor pencils to block in different colored sections.  Then I took a cotton swab, wet it and rubbed the image to blend the colors together.

I cut the image apart into nine equal parts, spread them out on the blue cardstock and carefully glued them down so they would look like window panes.  Then I backed this with the tan and glued to the card base.  I added a strip of tan and a piece of the blue to the bottom and glued and used a decorative brad to attach.  Then I took two words from the inside sentiment, stamped, backed and attached to the tan strip.

I carried part of the front pattern (simplified) to the inside.  The middle column was stamped with the complete sentiment and viola' I was finished.

This technique is very similar to the "Serendipity" technique which can also be thought of as a collage or mosaic.  In my card the grid pieces are the same size and are in the same direction.  However if you change the size and/or direction you will get a totally different design.

Here are further sources of information...

   Serendipity Technique  

   The Stamper's Mall 

   Art Without Anxiety