October Project: Custom Tip-ins with Pockets

Our passports are ready and we’ve arrived in Paris. It’s time to board the Orient Express! This month, our artistic journey takes us through France, Germany, and Austria as we create custom tip-ins with pockets to hold all the beautiful paper treasures, stamps, and ticket stubs collected as we travel along the tracks together. Whether you want to expand your own travel passport or join our community exchange, there are endless ways to collage, decorate, and customize your piece with layers of creative surprises. All aboard! Our October journey is about to begin. 🚂

October Art Exchange

This month, we’re creating a travel-themed tip-in with a pocket to exchange with fellow Club members! Decorate or collage yours however you’d like, then tuck a few little travel treasures inside for your partner to discover.

Signups open October 8th, and you can exchange with up to four fellow Club members. We’ll also meet online on October 9th at 9:00 AM Pacific to talk through the monthly project, answer questions, and share some inspiration.

Not participating in the exchange? You can still follow along and create your own travel-themed tip-in for your passport.

What's special about the Vintage & Collage Club?

The Vintage & Collage Club is a monthly membership for a community of artists who are life-long learners and who love to create collage art. They are open to new experiences and have the desire to share what they have learned with others, so that all of us have the ability to continue to evolve. 

What's special about this community is that there are lots of opportunities to find projects, and ideas -- all revolving around collage art -- to interest you and encourage you to create. 

That, coupled with an amazing community of curious and supportive creatives, in a distraction-free environment, makes it a place that is inclusive and inspiring.

In the membership, here's what you get access to every month:

About me:

I love to create collage art and to share what I make with others. I love giving people ideas and motivation to make something -- anything. I also want to continue to be inspired and encouraged to create. This creative collage art community is something I choose to put time and effort into building because I know I can learn as much from you as you can from me.

Here are a few things about me and my art style:

• I love vintage ephemera, and collaging with vintage papers
• I'm crazy about using postage stamps in my collages
• Very often I use rubber stampings

Also included in the membership: 
Collage Art Basics

If you are interested in learning the basics of collage art and want to fill your own gluebook, completing the 10 lessons in this class will boost your confidence in your own collage work.

 Here are some of the things you'll learn:

• How to collage with leaving white space on your page

• Why it's important not to leave any paper elements "floating"

• How positioning determines prominence of one piece over another

• How to create a collage with a focal point, and one with no focal point

• How to use rubber stamping in 3 different ways, to add layers to your work

• How to take a collage from an artist you admire and deconstruct it to make your own

Included is a library of vintage images.

You get access to more than 10 pages of printables to cut or tear out and use in your collage work. You can use the pieces exactly as they are placed in the lessons, or you can switch them up, or use your own.

Can you imagine how thrilled you'll be when you're holding your finished gluebook?