Project Share: Rippie Landscapes

For a while now, I've been following Tammy Brackett's You Tube channel. She's a paper/mixed media/junk journal artist. She makes little scrap-busting collages with small decorative paper trimmings she calls "Chippies" and I always enjoy crafting along while watching her.

A couple of days ago I came across a little box of circles I had hand cut ages ago. They were multiple sizes, cut out of art gallery postcards I had collected during a trip to Santa Fe almost 20 years ago. My original intention was to stack them as part of a mixed media collage in my art journal, making them into abstract flowers.

As I was tearing through my paper scraps I dubbed my take on the Chippies as "Rippies". I'm also happy that I found a productive use for the mulberry paper scrap grab bags that I buy every time I go to Blick. Even though I hadn't used the previous bag, I buy another.

Trimmed.

Machine crazy-stitched

I love these so much!