Tag: Vintage Ephemera

make mixed-media art with vintage ephemera:

Make Projects Galore with Our Vintage Ephemera Kit!

Collecting vintage ephemera is one of my passions, and I love sharing my finds with people. That’s why I’m thrilled to tell you that we’ve put together a limited collection of ephemera that’s part of our new Vintage Ephemera Kit, which also includes the books Storytelling with Collage and The Art of Expressive Collage. These…

Printable Ephemera Pockets and More for May!

I’m so excited about this month’s printable ephemera downloads, in a geeked-out, paper and ephemera fangirl way. We’ve taken some incredible vintage ephemera and photos and turned them into two pockets, a mini file folder, and a tag. A little cutting, folding, and gluing, and you have some great new embellishments to incorporate into your…

Flea Market Report: The Best Finds from Brimfield

Spring marks the start of the flea market season in New England, and none is more spectacular than the Brimfield Antique Flea Market, an epic sale that goes on three times a year for six days and is one of the world’s largest antique fairs. As a mixed-media-artist-slash-hoarder, I feel it’s my duty to not…

Vintage Ephemera Downloads: Our Gift to You!

I hope you’re having a great holiday season! Since this is a time of giving, we have a great gift just for you: vintage ephemera downloads from my personal collection of really old stuff! You can click here to download four pages of old photos, French postcards, and vintage library cards that you can use for…

American Flag

American Flag is a mixed media collage on a 24x24x1.5 gallery wrapped canvas frame.  It is made using vintage, patriotic sheet music, vintage Americana memorabilia, vintage dictionary clips all pertaining to America and a few pieces of scrap craft papers and acrylics. The flag portion was them coated with a faux encaustic finish and topped…

London Games 2012

This Mixed media piece is to celebrate the Olympic Games coming to London in 2012.  I love to reuse lost, damaged and unwanted things. This is made from all recycled objects, pages from a Dickens Novel of 1898, old A-Z pages, pieces from vintage games, beads from old necklaces, a broken ruler from the USA,…

Swatton, Schwitter’s Legacy

Schwitter's Legacy  is an 18"X24" assemblage created on a gallery-wrap canvas. In choosing its elements, I made a very small dent in my huge collection of vintage ephemera.  I used regular-density matte gel medium to apply the papers and heavy-density gel to add the 3D embellishments.  The title is tongue-in-cheek since Schwitter himself actually used far fewer elements in most of his…

Mixed Media Bird Houses

Bird houses made using paper mache forms that have been layered in ephemera, maps and vintage sheet music. Once layered, the houses are painted with a thin wash and/or distressed using distressing inks and alcohol inks. The birds are made using the same and have rhinestones for their eyes.  Roof is made with paper clay…

Mixed Media Bird Houses

I will be holding a workshop to make these in Houston on June 22., 2013. Go here for further information: http://doorno2.blogspot.com/2013/05/drum-roll-please-i-would-like-to.html   Bird houses made using paper mache forms that have been layered in ephemera, maps and vintage sheet music. Once layered, the houses are painted with a thin wash and/or distressed using distressing inks…

Jennie

My new love is vintage frames!  I can't find enough of them and they can't be beat up enough!  The only problem is that the frames can be quite expensive.  A lucky scavenger can find some inexpensive beauties at flea markets and estate sells if she has a sharp eye.  This frame is a lovely…